月が綺麗なよるだ。海が光って満ちた波が道際まで飲み込みそうだ。星も満天。この空は何にも変え難い夜のショーだ。でも私は一瞥して玄関に向かう。私の目はショーを求めていない。私の目は、みんなの目だ。「見たい」とは「見せたい」と同義なんだ。独りでみる夜景は「見せられない」のだから「見えない」んだ。いつからこんな感覚になったか覚えていない。いつも自分の「したい」に従ってきたのに、「したい」を追求した先には「させてあげたい」が残った。でもわかっている、それがいちばんのエゴであること。自分の先に自分がいない。でもその自分探しがいちばんのエゴだ。
１合気体操
２足捌き
３受け身
４一教ストレッチ
５両手取り天地投げ裏ストレッチ
６逆半身片手取り横崩し呼吸投げ
７逆半身片手取り鳥船呼吸投げ
８逆半身片手取り四方投げ
９逆半身片手取り四教裏
１０逆半身片手取り外回転投げ裏
ウェルナー先生は歴史学者だ。合気道を学ぶときもその特徴は色濃い。彼から合気道を学ぶことはまるで先人たちの世界を旅するようだ。動画でしか知らない師範たちが彼の体を通して蘇る。1980年代ヨーロッパに渡った開祖の高弟子たちの息吹を直接感じられることは貴重なことだ。先生はよく言われる。動画ではわからない手を直接触った技の感覚が大切だと。昨今のリモートの時代において、直接でしか伝わらないものの継承がとても興味深い。
It is a beautiful night.
The moon shines brightly, and the sea reflects its light. The rising tide seems almost ready to swallow the roadside. Above, the sky is filled with countless stars. It is a spectacle beyond comparison.
And yet, I glance at it only briefly before heading inside.
Perhaps my eyes are no longer searching for spectacles.
My eyes have become everyone else’s eyes.
To want to see something and to want to show it to someone may be almost the same thing. A beautiful view seen alone cannot be shared, and somehow, because it cannot be shared, it feels as though I have not truly seen it at all.
I do not remember when this feeling began.
For most of my life, I followed what I wanted to do. Yet somewhere along the way, after pursuing all those “wants,” what remained was a desire to let others experience things, to give something to someone else.
And yet I know there is a danger in that as well.
Perhaps that is the greatest form of ego.
There is no longer a self waiting at the end of the road—only others.
But perhaps the search for that self is itself another form of ego.
Practice
- Aiki exercises
- Footwork
- Ukemi
- Ikkyo stretch
- Ryote-dori tenchi-nage ura stretch
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori yokokuzushi kokyu-nage
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori torifune kokyu-nage
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori shiho-nage
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori yonkyo ura
- Gyakuhanmi katate-dori soto-kaiten-nage ura
Werner Sensei is a historian, and that quality deeply influences the way he teaches aikido.
Learning from him often feels like traveling through time. Through his body and movement, the teachings of earlier generations come alive. Masters whom I know only through old videos seem to reappear for a moment through his technique. To directly experience traces of the senior students of the Founder who brought aikido to Europe in the 1980s is a rare privilege.
Sensei often says that there are things a video can never teach. The feeling of touching another person’s hands, the sensation of a technique received directly through the body—these are essential parts of learning.
In an age increasingly shaped by remote communication, I find this deeply fascinating.
Some things can be explained.
Some things can be recorded.
But some things can only be transmitted from one living person to another.
Perhaps that is why traditions endure.
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