Existence, the flow which appears to be existence, is made up of many small parts conjoined and flowing akin to sand in a timer, thereby giving appearance which deceive our minds.
Knowing The Parts Which Make the Whole
Sixteen frames a second is all it takes to deceive the mind and for our minds to join the dots into a flow and miss the real actuality behind the appearances. The Buddha named the sub-atomic particle-waves, the parts which make the whole and their attributes, Skandhas, often translated as aggregates.
Sight deceives. Vision reveals. Noticing sees through the cracks of appearances.
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The biographical article on Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba below has been selected from the 
“Part of teaching, as I’ve learned teaching nursing, sewing and painting, is whenever possible having a narrative arc underlying a large part of the class (the qualifier is because sometimes a question or a problem a student is experiencing makes it more valuable to follow a tangent).”
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Has there ever been an aikido sensei who has organized the curriculum of the art so thoroughly as did Morihiro Saito Sensei? He was a veritable encyclopedia of knowledge on aikido and its technical evolution. For years in his seminars, Saito Sensei would bring along a copy of O-Sensei’s only book, Budo to verify the authenticity of his teachings.
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“During a summer seminar we lined up for bowing before sensei for the afternoon session. Sensei had a small red egg-like figure next to him. After bowing sensei explained that because of the heat we would take it a bit easy and would do some study on philosophy first.”
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“A considerable amount of my time at stop lights has been spent pondering this idea. ‘What is awareness and how do I implement it in a manner useful to me?’ Clearly I can not walk about like a crazed meth-head flinching at every moth that goes zig – zaggy past me on its way to the nearest light. Assuming that every person is a threat is not going to work either. I am not going to throw down on grandma on line at the Safeway pharmacy, no upside.”
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“Hmmm makes perfect sense really.. so why do so many of us not do it? Under pressure no where to go everything stops, but for what reason, that ole thing of not quite understanding reality as it happens.. in denial that everything happens the everyone else and not me. The truth of it is that things do and will happen to you whether you like it or not and you have a few seconds to snap out of it otherwise its good night. I can remember being twenty I think and chasing some guy down the country lanes in my newly acquired motor car, thought I was the nuts, but my driving wasn’t and I can clearly remember making a complete mess of it, having then lost control I felt the car swerve through 90’ go up onto two wheels and almost vertical it was though it was on a knife edge either drop to safety or continue over and roll down the lane to what end who knows.. just writing about it puts a shiver up my spine.. but as luck would have it the car dropped down back onto four wheels but facing the wrong direction and into on coming traffic, decision time.. ”
“Posture, walking, extending ki, getting rid of unnecessary tensions,…. are critical aspects to the foundations of Aikido. The beginning student sincerely wants to learn the foundational material. The intermediate student believes that they know the foundational material and want to learn some cool, advanced techniques.”
