一番気持ちがいい季節が来た。一番だ。そうまさに一番。こんなにやる気のない私が洗濯物を干して、机につくと本が読みたくなる。それだけ、いやそれこそが、それとは心平穏にこの席につけ、とりあえずのこの数時間本を読んですごしていても大丈夫だという心理的安全性が保たれていることこそが人生において最も貴重な時間の一つであることを気付かされる。私の少年時代にもいくらでもあったであろうこの貴重な時間を感じる余裕は、おそらく時代とともに消えてきている気もする。何もないことのありがたみを知足できることは容易ではない。時代とともに余計に難しくなっている。
１合気体操
２足捌き
３受け身
４三教ストレッチ
５逆半身片手取り前落とし呼吸投げ
６逆半身片手取り隅落とし
７逆半身片手取り一教表
８逆半身片手取り外回転投げ
９逆半身片手取り入身投げ
１０逆半身片手取り二教裏
１１多人数取り外下段切り呼吸投げ
こうして合気道をしていると、嬉しい出会いも淋しい別れも、両方ある。それは人生だ、人と逢うこと、そして別れること、それが人生なのだと感じる。大切なのはしっかり喜んで、しっかり恋しんで、しかし自分の軸を強く持つことだ。そしてしっかり受け入れて全身できるのだと思う。
The most beautiful season has arrived.
The very best one.
Yes, truly the best.
Even someone as unmotivated as I often am finds himself hanging laundry outside and then sitting down at his desk with the urge to open a book. That feeling alone is precious. Or perhaps it is not the reading itself, but something deeper—the quiet assurance that I can sit here peacefully, spend a few hours with a book, and that everything will be all right.
That sense of psychological safety may be one of the most valuable gifts in life.
Surely I had many moments like this in my childhood. Yet I doubt I fully appreciated them at the time. In fact, I sometimes feel that the space to notice such moments has gradually disappeared with the passing of the years. To recognize the value of having nothing in particular to worry about, to be content with what is already enough, has never been easy. And in the modern world, it may be becoming even more difficult.
Practice
- Aiki exercises
- Footwork
- Ukemi
- Sankyo stretch
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori mae-otoshi kokyu-nage
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori sumi-otoshi
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori ikkyo omote
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori soto-kaiten-nage
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori irimi-nage
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori nikyo ura
- Multiple-attacker soto-gedan-giri kokyu-nage
As I continue practicing aikido, I encounter both joyful meetings and sad farewells.
That, too, is life.
To meet people, and eventually to part from them.
That is simply part of being human.
What matters is to welcome both wholeheartedly: to rejoice deeply when people enter our lives, and to miss them sincerely when they leave. Yet at the same time, we must cultivate a strong center within ourselves.
Only then can we accept life as it is and continue moving forward with our whole being.
Perhaps that is what training is teaching me.
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