今日は本格的な夏の暑さ、冷房を入れた館内も床下からの熱を感じ、なんだか冷房を感じない。唯一冷房を感じる方法は冷房の効いていないゾーンに出ることだ。人間はそんなふうにできている。そう思う。今ある足るを知ることはとても難しい。それを知るにはそれが足らない状況に身をおくことだ。歴史上なぜ修行が必要だったかそれは知足のための手段だったからだろう。教育に関していろいろな理論があるが、自分の知足の教育のためには修行しかないのか、その答えを誰か持っているだろうか。
遊び稽古
１体操
２杖になれる
３ ２５の杖
４一教〜五教の構え
５相半身片手取り二教裏（杖の手引き）
本稽古
１合気体操
２足捌き
３受け身
４気合わせ正面打ち入身投げストレッチ
５気合わせ正面打ち小手返し
６正面打ち一教表
７正面打ち回転投げ表
８正面打ち玄形呼吸投げ
９正面打ち外回転投げ裏
１０正面打ち天地投げ
１１多人数取り正面打ち天地投げ
やや久しぶりの稽古だったので、基本技を取り入れた。思ったよりも身についていた部分、思ったよりもわすれていた部分それぞれあったと思う。私は休暇は大切だと思うタイプの人間だ。合気道は体の鍛錬だけでなく、脳の鍛錬でもある。脳も体も適度な休暇を与えることが上達の秘訣だと思うが、特に脳の休暇は我々の常識的な休暇とは違う休み方をすると感じる。みんなには合気道をうまくなってほしいというよりも、年齢関係なく、合気道を通じて自分の可能性に気づいてほしいと思う。
Today brought the full intensity of summer.
Even inside the dojo, with the air conditioning running, I could feel the heat rising from the floor. The cool air hardly seemed to make a difference. In fact, the only way to truly appreciate the air conditioning was to step into an area without it.
Perhaps human beings are like that.
It is remarkably difficult to appreciate what we already have. Often, the only way to recognize sufficiency is to experience its absence. Maybe that is one reason why ascetic training and spiritual discipline have existed throughout history. They were not merely exercises in endurance, but ways of learning contentment.
There are countless theories of education, yet I sometimes wonder whether there is any substitute for experience when it comes to learning gratitude for what is already enough. Is there a better way than practice, discipline, and occasional hardship? Perhaps someone has the answer.
Play Practice
- Warm-up exercises
- Becoming familiar with the jo
- The 25 Jo Movements
- Kamae for Ikkyo through Gokyo
- Ai-hanmi katate-dori Nikyo Ura (guided with the jo)
Main Practice
- Aiki warm-up exercises
- Footwork
- Ukemi (breakfalls)
- Ki-awase shomen-uchi Irimi-nage stretch
- Ki-awase shomen-uchi Kote-gaeshi
- Shomen-uchi Ikkyo Omote
- Shomen-uchi Kaiten-nage Omote
- Shomen-uchi Genkei Kokyu-nage
- Shomen-uchi Soto Kaiten-nage Ura
- Shomen-uchi Tenchi-nage
- Multiple-attacker Shomen-uchi Tenchi-nage
It had been a little while since we last trained these fundamentals, so I decided to return to the basics.
Some things had settled into the body more deeply than I expected. Other things had faded more than I realized. That is natural.
I am someone who believes that rest is important.
Aikido is not only training for the body; it is also training for the mind. Progress depends on giving both the body and the brain appropriate periods of recovery. Yet I have come to feel that the brain rests differently from the way we usually think about rest. Sometimes growth happens not while we are actively practicing, but while the lessons are quietly settling beneath the surface.
More than simply becoming skilled at Aikido, I hope the members of our dojo discover something else through their training.
Regardless of age, I hope they discover possibilities within themselves that they did not know existed.
Technique is important. Advancement is important.
But perhaps the greatest value of Aikido lies in realizing that we are capable of more than we once believed. And that realization is available to everyone, no matter where they begin.
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