I blew some bubbles into the air,
Their destination I know not where

Like dreams I have into the night
My thoughts, like bubbles, soar in flight

When I awake I hope to see
That the things I love, are still with me

Francis Y Takahashi

I blew some bubbles in the air,
Your objective, I do not know

Like dreams I have at night
My thoughts, like bubbles, increase in flight

When I wake up I hope to see,
That things, I love, are still with me.

rough translation by Carina

 

Carina von Tormes

There was once a river. He ran down the mountain and was already dreaming of the sea. One day he noticed the clouds over it. They were beautiful and headstrong. The river would have one by itself. But the clouds dodged. Suddenly the wind blew and swept away all the clouds. The river fell had no lust for life. He wanted
die. Why should he live, if there were no more clouds?

That night, however,, turned the river into itself. He had never seen his inner. And he heard himself cry. And he discovered something very important. He recognized, that the clouds were just water. And that he himself was water.

The next day he saw the blue sky for the first time in his life. I had never noticed it ...

The gesture, the Aiki technique is tested and experienced from both sides. The practitioner is in his experience, both uke and tori. It embodies the two figures on both sides of the coin, the relief and the cavity, the equilibrium and disequilibrium, standing the station and the case, to be guided to and fed. Uke and Tori are the same. Granted, not really at the same time, but the man is an animal of memory and the trace of the Uke is still fresh in Tori, when he throws Uke, because he already sees himself as Tori.

This agreed exchange – of the fact of the practice and not just the, what he allegedly simulated – definitely our best tool, to help us the way of the union, from “To” defined, continue ...

Awaseru, means in Japanese, Things together “set or to connect”. It can also be the union, combination, connote the connection and fusion of the otherwise disparate units, that they fit comfortably together for a purpose and desired outcome. This result is the birth of a new sense or degree of appreciation for true beauty and real achievement mean, which was not previously possible, than the corresponding parts were separated and unfamiliar.

Some would say, that the paired practice with partner, which is usually experienced in Aikido, a structured, But subconscious attempt is, mutually beneficial training goals without fear, unacceptable and avoidable injury or harm to it ...

It look all the flowers
Up to the sun shining;
It take all the currents
The shining seas to run.
It look all the flowers of Heinrich Heine

The fireworks plant, the Anglo-American language and Coral Plant (Coral plant) und Fountain Plant (Fountain plant) called, owes its name to the luminosity of their three centimeters small scarlet flowers revenge, which present themselves in the summer like fireworks in profusion. The rod-shaped, partially overhanging green shoots, are thin and almost leafless. Therefore, to be reminded of the 150 Centimeters high subshrub also horsetails (Equisetum), which again can be found in species names: Russelia equisetiformis.

Your instincts are not round, Probe ...

Here we are smiling, my little brother and me
Showing hope on our faces, for the whole world to see

There is so much to learn, and we are not in a hurry
We are not anxious to face those things that cause worry

Too soon will we grow to take on the world’s woes
But we will do so with courage, from our heads to our toes

For our parents and ancestors, have given us strength
to deal with adversity, no matter what length

so here we are smiling, my little brother and me
And we will do our very best, to be the best we can be

Francis Y Takahashi

Hier sind wir und lächeln, mein kleiner Bruder und ich
Zeigen Hoffnung auf unseren Gesichtern, für die ganze Welt zu sehen,

Es gibt so viel zu lernen, und wir haben keine Eile
Wir sind nicht bestrebt, die Dinge, die Sorgen verursachen zu sehen

Zu früh we...