Martial elders have it, it takes around 30 years to absorb the spirit of the108 movements in taikiken… and the learner has to gain mastery over those moves before moving on to walking meditation… aikido is moving meditation, poetry in motion… malupit talaga ano? And all it boils down to is nurturing that all-aware feeling of being at home in one’s body—beyond the confines of kinesiology, anthropometrics, milieu, time or terrain…
Naging matibay ang gayong bahagi ng kanilang katawan, ‘yung tinatawag na dan tien o physical center of gravity para manatiling matatag ang panimbang sa bawat kislot at kilos. Sa dan tien kasi nagsisimula ang mga igkas at iglap na galaw. At kapag doon nagsisimula ang pagkilos, mayroong makikitang poetry in motion. Magaan. There’s that quality of incredible lightness of being.