{"id":420,"date":"2014-12-31T14:32:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T19:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.searchofpeace.com\/blog\/?p=420"},"modified":"2014-12-31T14:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T19:32:54","slug":"moving-into-the-void","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchofpeace.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/31\/moving-into-the-void\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving into the Void"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0un7jEulTSI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p>Art, music, conversation, and certainly aikido is energized by altering the balance of polar opposites to create a point of connection and balance. O&#8217;sensei said, &#8220;If your opponent strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. On the contrary, it swallows up any attack harmlessly.&#8221;  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;sensei often used the circle in his explanations to represent infinity but another quote which is attributed to O&#8217;sensei also uses the circle to describe the creation of &#8220;ki&#8221; and opportunity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Circles are vacant. To be vacant is to be free and unrestricted. When a center arises in vacancy, it brings forth ki. Spirit lies in the center of vacancy when this is in accord with infinite universe. Spirit is the source of whole creation, mother of eternity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have found that in my own practice of aikido that it is easy to get in the way of creating the void, resulting instead in a hole or rut.  Uke wants to fall or turn or move but I am in the way.  If we visualize infinity in the western symbol of two circles intwining in three dimensional space a different metaphor develops.  <\/p>\n<p>There is a story of one of O&#8217;sensei&#8217;s original students demanding justice for a item stolen at the dojo.  O&#8217;sensei rebuked the student for making someone a thief by giving them the opportunity to steal something.    <\/p>\n<p>Hikitsuchi Sensei speaks about moving before a person &#8220;becomes the attacker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anno Sensei (Hikitsuchi&#8217;s successor) is seen in the video drawing uke into techniques by constantly exchanging positions.  Moving to create a vacancy or void for uke to be drawn into Anno Sensei and his uke become two intersecting circles that look more like \u221e, the mathematical symbol of infinity depicting how aikido creates ever changing roles propelled by the boundary between space and void, between would-be attack and non-opposition, between connection and isolation, creating a void that draws toward resolution.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art, music, conversation, and certainly aikido is energized by altering the balance of polar opposites to create a point of connection and balance. O&#8217;sensei said, &#8220;If your opponent strikes with fire, counter with water, becoming completely fluid and free-flowing. Water, by its nature, never collides with or breaks against anything. 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