It is, to me at this particular point in my training, a simple one. The late Ueshiba Kisshomaru summed it up in a comment to my husband. That's really all there is to it. In Japan I learned from my teachers and dojo mates that the meaning of martial arts was simply training, week after week, year after year. Insights quietly blossom, are nurtured, to sprout further understandings.
Training is the way.
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