Time and Space are one in the Eternal Mind …. just what the hell does that mean anyway?
Have you ever sat in on some swami or some wise man, or woman, and listened to their words of wisdom, and sometimes folly, as they “PERCEIVE” the truth of the universe around us?
Now wait a minute … there is .. in fact, .. and in the study of science, some validity to what they perceive, believe it or not.
Why just look at the ground you stand upon. You perceive it to be solid, or at least solid enough for you to stand upon, and in some ways it is is eternal compared to your short span of years, but if you were to look at it in thousands of years, or hundreds of thousands of years, … it would be a liquid that moves and seems to be alive. We see some of this “aliveness” with time-lapse-photography, don’t we.
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Pranin Sensei has been gracious enough to invite me into his home in Las Vegas and allow me to practice the Iwama style of aikido with him and his other students. I’ve been practicing aikido with him for over a year now and it’s been a life changing experience. I’ve studied other forms of martial arts in the past, but, aikido has opened up some new ways of looking at not only self defense, but life for me. 
A search of the Internet has yielded the following video clip which may be of interest to Aikido Journal readers.
I want to share something I was reflecting on today that has been with me for a while. This is about the imaginary distinction made in human perception between longitudinal and transverse waves. Anyone who has studied physics in high school will be well familiar with these two concepts. Light is generally described as having the properties of the former, with sound being the latter. In martial arts we often talk about waves as being the ideal for movement. I think many of us, like myself, fall into the trap of only thinking in longitudinal terms. Longitudinal movement is much more apparent to the eye and hence we are more conditioned to think of waves as longitudinal, never mind the fact that the two are co-dependent in a manner of speaking. 
Junbi Taiso, Junbi Undo or simply, Undo or Taiso or Junbi Undo Taiso are defined as “warming up exercises,” or “preparation exercises” or “warm-ups.”
“One Nage (the thrower or attacker) in particular is rough and strong. A few weeks ago he cracked every bone in my hand doing Nikyo “A technique which works through the wrist to lock the body”. We all heard it. Of course he was concerned. The instructor, a black belt student, admonished him to be more gentle. My hand ached for weeks. It still does. This Nage is super compact and dense, like a sack of cement. My feet have taken the brunt of his weight a number of times and they are black and blue. He always manages to step on my feet and, as a beginner, I’m not yet fast enough yet to get out of the way.”
Brian Kagen is an avid web researcher with a particular interest in martial arts. His training background includes both judo and aikido. He has contributed hundreds of article links over the years for AJ readers.
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