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Saigouha Daitouryu Aikibujutu Nature is bery profound and unfathomable. The human being isn't perfeet and isn't always healthy nor is he necessarily happy. Stop and look at insects. They are born in the morning and die in the evening. That is their fate in the natural world. We human beings aren't immortal either. There is no difference in fragility between men and insects. In other words our death or life doesn't matter to natuure. Objectively,the life of a human being is nothing to nature. That is,human beings are little different from insects. The raison detre of human beings on earth or the process by which human beings came into being might be explained. But we will not be able to explain why we must live on the earth. Purity will prosper,while what deviates from purity will perish. The austerity of life is nothing but a challenge for this purityor a fight against the perishment of human beings. The state of mind is revealed in techniques;the movements of mind will appear in the techniques. If it agrees with the law of nature,it is the best movement which a human being can make. But Aiki-jujutsu is a military art and it originated in the fighting of human beings. Our seniors have overcome these difculties and have made a remarkahle proress in the daily training ways for many years. In order to practice these techniques and assimilate them,we must keep abreast with modern society. A novice must practice wiht a firm resolution. There are thousands of ways for the spiritual improvement of human beings. Techniques will also make and endless developmet. If we stay at the same place and are satisfied with the present situation,we will never attain development and will perish. |
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▲ 山下芳衛先生の英論文の一部より。
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上記の英文は山下芳衛(ほうえい)先生が、自ら英訳された、昭和四十年頃に著わした「大東流合気柔術」に関する英訳論文で現宗家・曽川和翁先生に贈ったもの。 |
▲写真は山下芳衛先生の満洲時代の写真。陸軍特殊軍属として、北満方面の調査に赴いた頃の乗馬時のもの。 |
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