Podcasts about ueshiba

Bright on Buddhism - Episode 113 - How does Buddhism argue that one must respond when they have been wronged? Does it teach that you should just take it and not respond at all? How does this relate to Buddhist influenced martial arts?Resources: Canzonieri, Salvatore. "The Emergence of the Chinese Martial arts". Han Wei Wushu (23).; Henning, Stanley (1999b). "Martial arts Myths of Shaolin Monastery, Part I: The Giant with the Flaming Staff". Journal of the Chenstyle Taijiquan Research Association of Hawaii. 5 (1).; Henning, Stanley E. (Fall 1999). "Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial arts". China Review International. 6 (2): 319–332. doi:10.1353/cri.1999.0020. ISSN 1069-5834.; Zhāng Kǒngzhāo 張孔昭 (c. 1784). Boxing Classic: Essential Boxing Methods 拳經拳法備要 Quánjīng Quánfǎ Bèiyào (in Chinese).; Kit, Wong Kiew (2002). Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense Health and Enlightenment.; Order of the Shaolin Ch'an (2004, 2006). The Shaolin Grandmaster's Text: History, Philosophy, and Gung Fu of Shaolin Ch'an. Oregon.; Shahar, Meir (2008). The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0824831103.; Liu, James J.Y. (1967). The Chinese Knight Errant. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 87–88. ISBN 0-2264-8688-5.; Henning, Stanley (1994). "The Chinese Martial Arts in Historical Perspective" (PDF). Journal of the Chenstyle Taijiquan Research Association of Hawaii. 2 (3): 1–7.; Henning, Stan; Green, Tom (2001). "Folklore in the Martial Arts". In Green, Thomas A. (ed.). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO.; Shahar, Meir (2000). "Epigraphy, Buddhist Historiography, and Fighting Monks: The Case of The Shaolin Monastery". Asia Major. Third Series. 13 (2): 15–36.; Shahar, Meir (December 2001). "Ming-Period Evidence of Shaolin Martial Practice". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 61 (2). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 61, No. 2: 359–413. doi:10.2307/3558572. ISSN 0073-0548. JSTOR 3558572. S2CID 91180380.; Francis, B.K. (1998). Power of Internal Martial Arts: Combat Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi, and Hsing-I. North Atlantic Books.; Ueshiba, Kisshōmaru (2004). The Art of Aikido: Principles and Essential Techniques. Kodansha International. p. 70. ISBN 4-7700-2945-4.; Saotome, Mitsugi (1989). The Principles of Aikido. Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-87773-409-3.; Westbrook, Adele; Ratti, Oscar (1970). Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere. Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company. pp. 16–96. ISBN 978-0-8048-0004-4.; David Jones (2015). Martial Arts Training in Japan: A Guide for Westerners. Tuttle Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-4629-1828-7.; Michael A. Gordon (2019). Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy: Teacher as Healer. Springer. p. 28. ISBN 978-3-030-23953-4.; Ueshiba, Morihei (2013). Budo: Teachings Of The Founder Of Aikido. New York: Kodansha America. pp. 33–35. ISBN 978-1-56836-487-2.; gar-Hutton, Robert (2018). The Metamorphosis of Tai Chi: Created to kill; evolved to heal; teaching peace. Ex-L-Ence Publishing. ISBN 978-1-9164944-1-1.; Bluestein, Jonathan (2014). Research of Martial Arts. CreateSpace. ISBN 978-1-4991-2251-0.; Bond, Joey (1999). See Man Jump See God Fall: Tai Chi Vs. Technology. International Promotions Promotion Pub. ISBN 978-1-57901-001-0.; Choy, Kam Man (1985). Tai Chi Chuan. San Francisco, California: Memorial Edition 1994.[ISBN missing]; Davis, Barbara (2004). Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation. North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-55643-431-0.Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com.Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-HostProven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host

Bright on Buddhism - Episode 104 - What is the relationship between Buddhism and martial arts? What are some Buddhist influenced martial arts and their histories? How does the practice of martial arts reconcile with the moral precept of not harming sentient beings? Resources: Canzonieri, Salvatore. "The Emergence of the Chinese Martial arts". Han Wei Wushu (23).; Henning, Stanley (1999b). "Martial arts Myths of Shaolin Monastery, Part I: The Giant with the Flaming Staff". Journal of the Chenstyle Taijiquan Research Association of Hawaii. 5 (1).; Henning, Stanley E. (Fall 1999). "Academia Encounters the Chinese Martial arts". China Review International. 6 (2): 319–332. doi:10.1353/cri.1999.0020. ISSN 1069-5834.; Zhāng Kǒngzhāo 張孔昭 (c. 1784). Boxing Classic: Essential Boxing Methods 拳經拳法備要 Quánjīng Quánfǎ Bèiyào (in Chinese).; Kit, Wong Kiew (2002). Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense Health and Enlightenment.; Order of the Shaolin Ch'an (2004, 2006). The Shaolin Grandmaster's Text: History, Philosophy, and Gung Fu of Shaolin Ch'an. Oregon.; Shahar, Meir (2008). The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 978-0824831103.; Liu, James J.Y. (1967). The Chinese Knight Errant. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. pp. 87–88. ISBN 0-2264-8688-5.; Henning, Stanley (1994). "The Chinese Martial Arts in Historical Perspective" (PDF). Journal of the Chenstyle Taijiquan Research Association of Hawaii. 2 (3): 1–7.; Henning, Stan; Green, Tom (2001). "Folklore in the Martial Arts". In Green, Thomas A. (ed.). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO.; Shahar, Meir (2000). "Epigraphy, Buddhist Historiography, and Fighting Monks: The Case of The Shaolin Monastery". Asia Major. Third Series. 13 (2): 15–36.; Shahar, Meir (December 2001). "Ming-Period Evidence of Shaolin Martial Practice". Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies. 61 (2). Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, Vol. 61, No. 2: 359–413. doi:10.2307/3558572. ISSN 0073-0548. JSTOR 3558572. S2CID 91180380.; Francis, B.K. (1998). Power of Internal Martial Arts: Combat Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi, and Hsing-I. North Atlantic Books.;Ueshiba, Kisshōmaru (2004). The Art of Aikido: Principles and Essential Techniques. Kodansha International. p. 70. ISBN 4-7700-2945-4.; Saotome, Mitsugi (1989). The Principles of Aikido. Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala. p. 222. ISBN 978-0-87773-409-3.; Westbrook, Adele; Ratti, Oscar (1970). Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere. Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Company. pp. 16–96. ISBN 978-0-8048-0004-4.; David Jones (2015). Martial Arts Training in Japan: A Guide for Westerners. Tuttle Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 978-1-4629-1828-7.;  Michael A. Gordon (2019). Aikido as Transformative and Embodied Pedagogy: Teacher as Healer. Springer. p. 28. ISBN 978-3-030-23953-4; Ueshiba, Morihei (2013). Budo: Teachings Of The Founder Of Aikido. New York: Kodansha America. pp. 33–35. ISBN 978-1-56836-487-2.; gar-Hutton, Robert (2018). The Metamorphosis of Tai Chi: Created to kill; evolved to heal; teaching peace. Ex-L-Ence Publishing. ISBN 978-1-9164944-1-1.; Choy, Kam Man (1985). Tai Chi Chuan. San Francisco, California: Memorial Edition 1994.[ISBN missing]; Davis, Barbara (2004). Taijiquan Classics: An Annotated Translation. North Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-55643-431-0.; Frantzis, Bruce (2007). The Power of Internal Martial Arts and Chi: Combat and Energy Secrets of Ba Gua, Tai Chi and Hsing-I. Blue Snake Books. ISBN 978-1-58394-190-4. Do you have a question about Buddhism that you'd like us to discuss? Let us know by tweeting to us @BrightBuddhism, emailing us at Bright.On.Buddhism@gmail.com, or joining us on our discord server, Hidden Sangha ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/tEwcVpu⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Credits: Nick Bright: Script, Cover Art, Music, Voice of Hearer, Co-Host Proven Paradox: Editing, mixing and mastering, social media, Voice of Hermit, Co-Host

« Combattre ! Vaincre ! Dominateur ! A quoi cela sert-il ? Gagner aujourd'hui signifie perdre demain !  Cette idée de Morihei Ueshiba a certainement été révolutionnaire dans le Japon du XXe siècle. En transformant un art de la guerre en un art de la paix, le fondateur de l'Aïkido, cet art martial non-violent, montre que pour servir le monde, le seul combat à mener se fait à l'intérieur de nous-même .  Au carrefour entre les traditions bouddhistes, shintoïstes et les enseignements des anciens samouraïs, celui qu'on nommera O Sensei chercha toute sa vie à cultiver cet art de la paix.  Le fondateur de l'Aïkido a proposé à travers un art martial non-violent une autre manière d'entrer en relation avec nous-même et le monde.  Conférence de la série les philosophes de l'âme #12, donnée à Paris, Espace Le Moulin, le 25 avril 2024.  *****  Saviez-vous que Nouvelle Acropole est réalisée à 100% par des bénévoles ? Nous dépendons donc beaucoup de nos étudiants et amis pour la divulgation !  N'oubliez pas de vous abonner à la chaîne et si possible de la partager sur vos réseaux sociaux.  Ce sera d'une grande aide !

The Book Crew is back with this final episode on our latest book - Three Budo Masters by John Stevens. Today we tackle Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido. You can imagine how full of information and opinions we are today. I hope you'll read the book (get in touch to get one of our used copies!) We mention that we did an entire episode on Aikido and here it is:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/8241544We  also bring up the elements. I say we did 5 episode on the elements, but there were actually 6.  We'll run one of them as an archived episode in August. Meanwhile, here's the one on water:https://www.buzzsprout.com/477379/4657946All the element episodes can be found in the summer of 2020, if you're wanting more.Finally, as always, a big thanks to our sponsor Honor-Athletics. Shop here:https://honor-athletics.com/or call her at 770.945.5150Thanks for listening. Please Like, Subscribe, Share and Review. We appreciate that

According to Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido, “One should be prepared… to stare death right in the face in order to illuminate the Path.” Today's episode of Wise Elders features Allison Gonzalez, a peer of Matt's in their social work doctoral program, and an expert in end-of-life care. She is a perfect person to talk to about living and dying wisely (5:47), as well as living each moment One-mindfully (53:11).

What if the people who's pictures are on the wall at the front of the Dojo, were not God's? Follow us on Instagram: “invisible Sensei” Or find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/The-Invisible-Sensei-Podcast-100106401649306/ And at our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBW5uEP5zPcDwC0N5DKsQrw Or email: tuawamind@yahoo.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yama-bushi/message

Ep 131- Ueshiba The Trickster by Aikido: Discussed

Listen as I share the beautiful philosophy and mastery of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of the art of Aikido, and how it relates to our experiences today.  Ueshiba has a unique view of what it means to be a warrior that you won't want to miss. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts.  Go to https://www.nancyshowalter.com/for a FREE Copy of My Book, It's OK to Be Rich:  The Entrepreneur's Guide to Increased Wealth and Personal Mastery and FREE Mini-Course, "How to Speak Your Success:  The Shocking Truth of How Your Words Impact Achieving Your Goals."  

Funakoshi, Miyagi, Motobu, Kano, Ueshiba, Macarthy! These names carry a special meaning, legacy! Karate, the art of unification! Honest! Thanks for listening you can learn more about us on: https://www.facebook.com/yamabushidojonz/ And at our Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBW5uEP5zPcDwC0N5DKsQrw --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yama-bushi/message

Una de las cosas que me llaman la atención al ver el registro videográfico de Ueshiba es el virtuosísimo del Aikido moderno, comparado con el original. La famosa practica filmada por NHK consiste en técnica básica ejecutada con una contundencia terrible, pero sencilla y sin adorno alguno. En cambio, en la actualidad, los instructores de jerarquía muestran un refinamiento y elaboración técnica que no es aparente en los videos antiguos. Esta situación es una consecuencia natural de la profesionalización del instructor de Aikido, con todo lo que implica. El verdadero nacimiento del Aikido se dio como resultado de tres momentos de despertar espiritual que Ueshiba experimentó. El primero ocurrió en 1925, cuando Ueshiba derrotó desarmado a un oficial de la marina que le atacó con una katana de madera, sin dañarle. Su segunda experiencia ocurrió en 1940, cuando le pareció que todos los movimientos que le habían enseñado sus maestros eran completamente nuevos. Ya no eran meras técnicas; eran formas de cultivar la vida, el conocimiento y la virtud. Su tercera experiencia fue en 1942 durante la peor lucha de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Ueshiba tuvo una visión del "Gran Espíritu de la Paz".

En este podcast analizaremos una frase de O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba para profundizar en la práctica del Aikido.”En tu adiestramiento no te apresures.Ya que dominar lo básico y llegar al primer peldaño lleva un mínimo de diez años. Nunca te imagines ser maestro de la perfección que todo lo conoce; debes continuar tu entrenamiento diario junto a tus amigos y discípulos y progresar juntos en el Arte de la Paz.”Morihei Ueshiba¿Qué quiere decir Ueshiba con lo de los diez años?, ¿Qué es ese periodo para estar preparado para empezar a aprender?, ¿Por qué Aikido es una mejora continua de perfeccionamiento?, ¿Cómo ese aprendizaje nos ayuda dentro y fuera del Tatami?.Todo esto lo podréis escuchar en el podcast de hoy...Dirige: Diego Espinosa / Chema PoloMás información: https://dojocam.com

En este podcast analizaremos una frase de O'Sensei Morihei Ueshiba para profundizar en la práctica del Aikido.”En tu adiestramiento no te apresures.Ya que dominar lo básico y llegar al primer peldaño lleva un mínimo de diez años. Nunca te imagines ser maestro de la perfección que todo lo conoce; debes continuar tu entrenamiento diario junto a tus amigos y discípulos y progresar juntos en el Arte de la Paz.”Morihei Ueshiba¿Qué quiere decir Ueshiba con lo de los diez años?, ¿Qué es ese periodo para estar preparado para empezar a aprender?, ¿Por qué Aikido es una mejora continua de perfeccionamiento?, ¿Cómo ese aprendizaje nos ayuda dentro y fuera del Tatami?.Todo esto lo podréis escuchar en el podcast de hoy...Dirige: Diego Espinosa / Chema PoloMás información: https://dojocam.com

Is Aikido a cult? In this episode we divert our attention briefly to the difficult subjects of Aikido and Omotokyo, examining in particular the darker side of Aikido's origins.

This week, we talk about the characteristics of an ideal Aikido role model. Also, we spend a fair amount of time talking about Ueshiba.

En el capítulo de hoy hablaremos sobre: “dar salida al conflicto”. Además, también hablaremos del Curso de verano 2018 y de la próxima visita del Padre Amable al DojoCAM.¿Qué quiere decir Ueshiba con lo de NO ha de haber un vencedor y un vencido?, ¿Cómo se puede aplicar eso en un Budo?, ¿Qué actitud se toma durante el conflicto?.Dirige: Diego Espinosa / Chema PoloMás información: dojocam.com

En el capítulo de hoy hablaremos sobre: “dar salida al conflicto”. Además, también hablaremos del Curso de verano 2018 y de la próxima visita del Padre Amable al DojoCAM.¿Qué quiere decir Ueshiba con lo de NO ha de haber un vencedor y un vencido?, ¿Cómo se puede aplicar eso en un Budo?, ¿Qué actitud se toma durante el conflicto?.Dirige: Diego Espinosa / Chema PoloMás información: dojocam.com

Decía Bruce Lee: Si crees que algo es imposible, tú lo harás imposible. Nosotros creemos que todo es posible en esta vida y en el programa de esta semana lo vamos a demostrar: haremos realidad un tema que aparentemente es más visual que radiofónico. Y para ello tendremos como invitado al polifacético maestro Eduardo Lurueña, seis veces campeón de España de kung­fu, dos veces campeón del mundo, ganador de tres medallas de oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de Artes Marciales, poseedor de varios récords, terapeuta, primer astronauta civil de España y autor de La magia de lo real. Hablaremos con él y con el resto de contertulios de la ilimitada capacidad del ser humano para superarse y de los auténticos senseis de las artes marciales, como Ueshiba, fundador del aikido, o de Aoyama capaz de vencer a toros y romper sus astas de un golpe.

Hoy hablaremos sobre La Felicidad en el Aikido. Ueshiba decía que Aikido tenía que dar alegría y satisfacción¿Por qué a veces parece la gente tan seria trabajando Aikido?, ¿Cómo nos afecta las cosas de fuera en la práctica de Aikido?, ¿Cómo nos afectan los pensamiento en la práctica?.Todo esto lo podréis escuchar en el episodio de hoy…

Hoy hablaremos sobre La Felicidad en el Aikido. Ueshiba decía que Aikido tenía que dar alegría y satisfacción¿Por qué a veces parece la gente tan seria trabajando Aikido?, ¿Cómo nos afecta las cosas de fuera en la práctica de Aikido?, ¿Cómo nos afectan los pensamiento en la práctica?.Todo esto lo podréis escuchar en el episodio de hoy…

Donate to The Permaculture Podcast Online: via PayPal Venmo: @permaculturepodcast This episode is Joel Glanzberg's opening remarks recorded live at the Mid-Atlantic Permaculture Convergence. He shares with us his observations from 30 years practicing permaculutre, rooted in the earliest days when Bill Mollison still taught in United States. Along the way Joel shares with us his personal successes and failures, while keeping a focus on how we can use the teachings of permaculture to view the world through a lens that focuses on the patterns that lead to ever greater, intentional, design with biological systems in mind. You learn more about him and his work by visiting PatternMind.org or .com. While you are there you can also view his video 30 Years of Greening the Desert. In the notes below you'll find a transcript of Joel's talk. This is something I'd like to include in every episode of the show and to help that along have updated the Patreon page for the show to reflect that. We're over halfway to the goal of transcripts for every future episode so sign up today and help us reach that milestone! What I like about this conversation with Joel is how he continued to return to the power of biological forces in our systems. From Schrodinger's quote about neg-entropy to how he might build his son, to repairing cracks in a system, life begets life. The more we spend time designing with life in mind the more regenerative our systems become. The more they allow us to design ourselves out of the work. Even with what I'm doing here with the podcast, right now technology is how the stories are told, but over time and with the creation of new traditions, we can train new storytellers who collect and share the tales of others, to spread words and voices from mouth to ear in a perpetual way that isn't replaced with something, but by someone. Oh what a beautiful world it will be. How do patterns impact your work? Did you learn something new from what Joel shared? I'd love to hear from you. Email: Write: The Permaculture Podcast The Permaculture Podcast From here, the next episode is a permabyte about my experiences with Venom Immunotherapy, and after that is a follow up conversation with Joshua Cubista recorded by David Bilbrey. Until then, spend each day looking for the patterns that lead to the world you want to live in while taking care of Earth, yourself, and each other. Resources PatternMind.org - Joel's website Gregory Bateson (Wiki) Transcript Joel Glanzberg: Good morning. It's really wonderful for me to see all of you. As Scott was intimating I've been doing this for about thirty years, and thirty years ago there were no college programs, there were like three books, there were like sixty of us throughout the country. So to see all of your faces and all the work you guys are doing, it just makes me very grateful and so I want to thank you not only for being here, but for caring and all the work that you do. There's been a lot of discussion in the permaculture community about trying to certify people, create all of these various structures and ways of insuring that we don't lose all the things that were brought to permaculture from the beginning and throughout the years. Cause as you all know if you've ever played whisper down the lane, where if I were to whisper something in your ear and then you were to whisper it in her ear and it went all the way around by the time it came out to Scott it would be something completely different. So this model we have of teaching and then teachers teaching and teachers teaching, there are a lot of things that get added and there's also sometimes things that gets lost and missed. I had the opportunity to go and teach in Africa before the International Convergence there a number of years ago and all the social, economic, legal stuff, what we call the Invisible Structures had largely been dropped, right, partly because feeding people is so important and also simply because people run out of time. So one of the things I've really been interested in all along is the pattern aspect of things, and why patterns are important. If you help me out here for a minute, just close your eyes for a second, and watch your breath for a moment. Take two, three deep breaths. Watch yourself inhale and exhale. And maybe you can even feel your heart beating at the same time. So that is actually you living. As your diaphragm goes down and the atmosphere rushes into your lungs spreads out through the branching bronchi of your lungs so there's that large surface to volume and then that air goes into those little blood cells and those tiny little one cell-wide capillaries and goes branching through your whole circulatory system to every cell in your body, to every other little capillary so that it can drop off its oxygen and pick up carbon dioxide and go back to your lungs and go back out into the atmosphere. That is life. So because permaculture, we talk about as permaculture design and we think mostly about designing structures. Right? But, these structures aren't living, right? So, life is exchange. The moment you stop exchanging the atmosphere, you stop exchanging with the water and the food that jumps up out of the earth and into your mouth, you will stop living. Everything that is alive, these trees are here to exchange between the atmosphere and the earth. Taking sunlight turning into sugar, taking that down into the ground, building their bodies out of the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, taking the water and mineral and nutrients out of the soil and putting it up into the air to seed the clouds to create the rain. Everything that's alive is creating exchange. You all know the general model, right, that pattern of exchange that we talk about in permaculture? That's important because life is exchange and that's the pattern of every exchange. So, I have three beautiful little children, and when my son, who is now 5, was a little boy, I was holding him while he slept. And he taught me a lot about life and design. And while I was holding him, I thought about how I would build his beautiful body. I've built stuff my whole life. Of course what I would do is build his structure first. I'd put all of his bones together with muscles and tendons and ligaments and then I would run his circulatory system and his nervous system and I'd install all his organs, hook em up, sheath him in skin, fill him with blood, water and food and start him up. And this is how we design and build everything that we make. We design it, we put it together, and it operated, whether it's a building, an organization, a curriculum, or a car. But nothing living is created in that way. His body was built by his body metabolising. The river was made by the water flowing. The tree was made by taking in sunlight and carbon dioxide and moving nutrients and water. So how do we as permaculture designers who are more interested in biology than in physics, that's the shift that permaculture makes. It's saying, sure, all the laws of physics hold true, and harnessing them we can be incredibly powerful. We can change landscapes, but this is a living reality that we are blessed with. If we understand how biology works, and as living beings imitate how biology works we'll come out with very different worlds. Very different effects. So how do we design processes instead of structures. Because life is processes of exchange. An example that I love from Haiti. After the earthquake they built a teaching hospital. And one of the things that was striking to me is that it was a pretty cool design, it was passive solar and they catch the water and all those good things. But they designed the process differently. So they hired Haitian workers to build it and they got to all these technical things they didn't have the skills to do: the electrical and the gas and the computer stuff and finishes and all the rest. They brought in union workers from the States, but every union worker had two apprentices so by the time the hospital was built they had people trained to build the next hospital as well as to maintain that one. We all know that one of the problems with so much of the aid that's given to the third world, right, is that it pretty soon it breaks down and people don't have the knowledge or spare parts to fix it and how to use it. So, the structural design of the building was the same. You wouldn't see anything different on the blueprints, but by redesigning the process for creating it you created all kinds of various things in the community. So this was really brought home to me a few years ago. I should probably have said this, not only have I been doing this for thirty years, my demonstration site Flowering Tree is one of the main examples in Gaia's Garden, Toby's first book, and I did a video of it a couple years that you can see at Pattern Mind. It's called Thirty Years Greening the Desert. When I was making that video I zoomed in on Google Earth. You can see the dry Southwest, dry Southwest, and here's this beautiful three-quarters of an acre food forest that's thirty years old. Full covered canopy, five stories, and I was really impressed with myself. And then in the middle of the night I woke up and I realized that it was a green island was a measure of my failure, because I was not aiming to create a demonstration site I was aiming to change how people lived in the place and if I had been successful it would have disappeared in a sea of food forest like the first tree in a forest. Or the first blade of grass in a meadow. But I hadn't designed the process to enable it, or to insure that it changed the larger system. And it made me realize I would rather just stay home with my family and play with my plants and make things, but we all know that we're in pretty dire circumstances on the planet as a culture, as a race, as a species and that what we learn in the garden, what we learn in the forest is how living systems function and the true power of permaculture is that everything on the planet is a living system whether it is an organism or an organization, an ecosystem or an economic system, all living systems follow the same pattern. And so our learnings in our gardens, our nice little sandboxes where we get to play with living systems and learn from them we can take those learnings and use them to shift all these other living systems that are in such dire need of shifting. Whether it is education or business or governance or large water systems. Whatever it is. And part of what I realized is why I tell that story about my son, is I am so focused on the stuff of the world, when the world is relationships and exchanges. At least the living world is the exchanges between us. It's the processes. And every structure is entropic. As soon as the structure was built it begins to fall apart. As soon as you drive your car off the lot it is worth less money because it falls apart. You gotta fix it, you gotta fix it, you gotta fix it. But my son's body, just like all of our bodies and all of these other living things bodies, get better and better, and better. They develop. There's a wonderful little book called What is Life by the physicist Shroedinger. You might of heard of his cat. And he said that life is neg-entropy. It is a counter entropic force. Systems become more developed and more complex. The trees grow up. The deer graze in the lowlands and they go up to the highlands to fertilize so it can all wash down again. The salmon spawn up in the uplands, go out to the sea, used to get as big as hogs, swim back up so they could take all those nutrients from the ocean and put them back at the highest point in the watershed to be spread out to fertilize the forest by people, and eagles and bears and wolves and all the rest. One of the problems with how we've been working as human beings is because we are so focused on structures including legal structures, economic structures, governance structures that are brittle and will fall apart. That is what is killing the world. That's because we are focused on dead things instead of focusing on patterns of processes to regenerate things. You guys all know the old Bill Mollison Permaculture Principles of the problem is the solution and the least change for the greatest effect. You guys all know those principles? And so, the way I came into permacutlure initially was I read The One-Straw Revolution by Fukuoka and his main things are, you know he had a near death experience, he had this sort of enlightenment experience after he had kind of collapsed in his life, and it changed how he thought and saw the world. And he said the most important thing was he asked different questions. Do you know what those questions were. Audience Member: “What don't I have to do?” JG: He said instead of asking, "What can I do?" I began to ask, "What can I stop doing? What can I not do," so he stopped weeding, he stopped fertilizing, and he stopped mostly watering, and he stopped doing all the things pretty much that we think that you need to do in agriculture. He called it Not Doing Farming. In chinese the phrase is Wu Wei, Not Doing. And that's the basis of permaculture. It's why we talk about Work is Pollution. Any needs that are not provided for any element of the system by the system is work we need to do and the unused resources is pollution. So we're trying to get away from working. So what is Fukuoka most known for? Seed balls and mulch. So even the man who developed Not Doing Farming is known for the little bits of doing he did. And it's one of the things that I think is the most important bit of permaculture. We're so focused on all the permaculture ways of doing. Mulching and sheet mulching and making swales and hugelkultur and aquaculture and, you know all this doing, when the whole point is to find that least change for the greatest effect. What is the appropriate acupuncture point where we can do a little thing that shifts the whole system. Do you all know who Terry Dobson was? Terry Dobson was a martial artist. He was the first American student of Ueshiba who started Aikido in Japan and he tells this story. Ueshiba was about this big, little guy, and Terry Dobson was this like 6' 4" 250lb American guy and he had been studying with Ueshiba for like three years, 22 years old, and Ueshiba kept saying you will not fight. You see tough guys on the street, go to the other side of the street. Someone tries to start a fight with you, don't fight with him. Terry Dobson was wanting to show his stuff and he was on the train going home one day and a drunk guy got on the train covered in vomit and shoved a pregnant lady down in the seat and is pushing people around and Terry is like, "This is it. Ueshiba can't say nothing. This is righteous." And he gets up and the guy sees him and yells at him and comes running, “YAAAAA!” and they hear this little voice say, "Hey" and there's this nicely dressed elderly Japanese man. He says, "Hey, do you like to drink?" The drunk man, "What's it to you?" "Well, you know, my wife and I have this lovely plum tree out back and we like to sit underneath it and drink sake and i thought you might have a lovely home and a lovely wife." "Oooohhhhh. My wife died and I lost my job. I lost my house. I'm poor and everything is terrible." Pretty soon it's Terry Dobson's stop and he gets off and the drunk guy is sitting with his head in the lap of the elderly man whose petting his head and speaking to him. Terry Dobson realized he'd learned the forms of Aikido and he had missed the patterns behind them. And so this elderly man had not been fooled by the surface presentation, the symptom of the drunk man being violent. He had seen behind to the pattern and had seen it to its source. And by a few words he got that to come out. What would have happened if Terry beat him up? Would it have made anything better? Probably would have made it worse. By seeing to that source and breaking that surface structure that man began the regeneration, hopefully, of that drunk human being whose one of our, part of our, community. And so that to me is what permaculture is all about. It's what tracking about. How do we see the patterns behind things to see the little changes that changes the pattern that creates a different presentation. Instead of trying to solve symptoms without solving the patterns behind them that are presenting as those symptoms, we're going to spend our lives putting out fires. And so to me that's the great value, the great blessing of having worked with plants and living communities so much is that we learn how living systems really work instead of our ideas of them. And so the main thing that I would like to ask of all of you is please always be asking yourself, "Am I working on a symptom? Am I trying to put out fires or put a bandaid on a problem?" When the problem is the solution. In structures, cracks are a problem. It's why we fix our oil pan, it's why we fix the leaks in our roof. We fix all these cracks. In living systems cracks are the opening to the next level. When a chick is in the egg and it runs out of food and room it doesn't go shopping and add an addition. It breaks the shell. And it enters a new world. And for a while its parents feed it until she and her siblings outgrow the nest and their parents ability to feed them, then they fledge and enter a new level of reality. So, reality is layered. Even here. Talk about it in the food forest. There are the plants under the ground the rooted ones, there's the ones on the surface, there's the trees and the understory and the shrubs and the vines. Here in the landscape there is the river and the semi-aquatic and the lowlands and the slopes and the uplands. Reality is layered and you all know this Einstein quote, Problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that created them. That's how nature solves her problems is by using them as opportunities and openings to evolve. We were talking last night about the wonderful work of Kat Anderson and all the people who have been looking at the chestnut / oak forest of this region. So you probably know when Europeans came here twenty percent of the forest were chestnuts. Another majority was oak and pecan and hickory and black walnuts and all these nut trees and fruit trees and shrubs. Let me backup a second, do you all know what ecological succession is? So it's a primary pattern in all living systems. You have bare soil. First thing that comes in is annual weeds or before that maybe lichens and mosses. Then after the weeds you start to get the grasses and then you start to get shrubs and pioneer trees and sub-climax and eventually you get to a climax hardwood forest system. You can even see succession occurring here. We're starting to get the grasses here and the shrubs underneath and eventually up to the trees. For a very long time we had this very hierarchical idea that climax was where everything was headed. It's the king. But what we found is that actually sub-climax is much more diverse and productive and it turns out that climax here is something like beech / maple, which are very thin barked. They don't produce so much and they don't feed so many other animals as all the nut trees. One of the things the native people saw was, oh, if I burn a beech / maple forest that is very thin barked I'm going to kill them off. I'm going to buffer the PH of the soil and I'm going to encourage all the nut trees that are going to feed the deer and the bears and the turkeys. Oh, and it's also going to buffer the PH of the water which are going to enable all the oysters to make the shells better. In the Chesapeake there were enough oysters to filter the bay in a day or two. One of the things the native peoples discovered was by doing cool burns, not canopy burns that take everything out, but cool burns, they are going to take out the sticks and the underbrush so you can stalk and hunt better. You can see people coming if you have to worry about that. You're going to create the trees that are going to feed you and feed the animals you're going to eat from. You are going to buffer the soils. You are going to buffer the PH of the waters. You are going to encourage the shellfish that you go and harvest and eat every summer. Oh, and guess what? Take out the ticks. And the fleas. And also all the weevils that are going to eat your nuts. The least change for the greatest effect. One of the problems with human beings is that most everything we do creates ecological disturbance. Put that driveway in we tore up a bunch of plants. To plow a field and grow our food we do a lot of disturbance. The problem is that we're not designing the disturbance. Throughout the world human beings being very intelligent figured out how they could use small disturbances to shift ecological succession to the most productive levels. That's what happened to Terry Dobson on that train. His structured idea of reality got disturbed by this experience. That's what happened to Fukuoka when he almost died. So our minds are ecological systems. They are living systems. Our communities are ecological systems. Our economic systems are ecological living systems and they follow the same stages of succession. You have a poor neighborhood and there's maybe a lot of crime and there's people from all over the world there and that's where people maybe are using drugs or whatever. That's where the artists move in because they can afford it. It's really cool and interesting and a little on the edge and creative things happen and then it becomes a little bit more established and it becomes where you have the yuppie wine bars and coffee shops and galleries. And then pretty soon it becomes gentrified and the art is really boring and everybody has to move out and you move to a climax ecosystem. And something has to come in, in to disturb it so it can become more creative and interesting again. It doesn't matter what the system is, it follows this pattern of succession. Every living thing, because life is so unstable, tries to move towards stability. But if we go for the stability of concrete there cannot be the exchanges that are necessary for living. To my mind what I would like to invite you all into is to learn to see behind what you see. See the patterns behind it. And you're not aware of this, but every time you read something, what are you seeing? You are seeing the movements of someone's mind. There are tracks on the page, but you are seeing behind that to patterns of processes. Patterns of thoughts. Patterns of ideas. You might even be seeing people doing things. It's just like a tracker. It's not to say deer, deer, deer. It's to see that animal moving to the clearing and pausing and turning its head and looking and going on. So lets see everything as a track so we can see the patterns of processes so we can find that acupuncture point. That little pebble we can drop into the pond to create those waves of change that we know we need because we don't have a lot of time. We don't have a lot of energy. There's not that many of us. We have to make sure that what we do is effective. This talk is meant to be a pebble dropped into a pond. This event is meant to be a small event that can have all these rippling effects. When we have a conversation, we're selling people plants, how do we use that as an opportunity to shift how people are thinking about things. When we write things. When we're implementing something how do we make that an educational experience for the community. How do we make that create jobs and businesses in the community? I was talking to Dale and he mentioned this Gregory Bateson story about the New College in Oxford. And the New College was started about the 1600s and there's a great big dining hall. 50-60 feet long and there were great big oak beams in it. And the maintenance man was up there because he saw some sawdust and he dug around in the beam with a knife and found it was riddle with beetles. He went to the next one and the next one and the next one and he was like, "Where are we going to find oak trees to replace these two foot square beams 60 foot long. They looked and looked and eventually the board called in the forester because they had forest land. The forester said, “Oh, I was wondering when you were going to ask about them oaks.” “What are you talking about?” “Oh, everybody knows oak beams get beetly in 500 years so when they built this college they planted the oaks and every forester told the next forester, don't you cut those oaks. Those are for the dining hall.” Gregory Bateson says that's the way you design a society. So what if before we designed the building we design the forest to provide the wood. And we design how we're going to produce the concrete. And we design how we're going to get the metal or recycle the metal so we're looking at the whole process instead of just this little blip in it. And every time we're doing something is an opportunity to begin to work on that. Please, if you are interested check out PatternMind.com or .org I think there's some interesting stuff on there. If you would please, hold up your fist. So, I've had the opportunity for fifteen years now to help co-teach a native american permaculture course in New Mexico where we've had people from all over the continent come. And we were in the Jicarilla pueblo and this old man had us all do this. And he said, "Hold up your fist. Look at the ridge of your knuckles. It goes up and down, up and down. Just like the mountain. Just like the river goes back and forth. Look at the edge of your fist. It spirals. Just like the water behind a rock where the trout stays. No square people here. We're all round." And his point was, if we keep telling ourselves the story that human beings are the problem, the bad part that needs to be repaired, replaced, or eliminated, which is how you fix structures, we can't help but destroy things. If you tell a little kid, "You're bad" they are going to be bad. If we tell one another we belong here, the creator placed us here for a reason to play a particular role and we have gotten confused about what our role is to use this incredible consciousness and awareness we were given. So if we could use this consciousness to track patterns. To find the least change for the greatest effect. To be designers of disturbance so we're actually focusing on designing the disturbance instead of designing the structure then we can be a blessing for the world We can actually be essential portions of all these living systems that we love so dearly. To hear the crickets and see the green leaves and the light through the leaves. All this beauty. Eat the food that comes from these plants. To feel alive is such a blessing. We only want to give back. For me, that's what permaculture is all about. It's not all the techniques, but how can I learn from those techniques to repattern and to find those least changes for the greatest effect.

For the month of May, Shea and Derek discuss two books that, at first glance, seem quite different, but whose similarities become more apparent upon closer examination. They begin with Masahiko Matsumoto's Cigarette Girl (Top Shelf Productions), a collection of eleven short comics originally published between 1972 and 1974. This is one of the few books by Matsumoto available in English -- another translation, The Man Next Door, was published by Breakdown Press in 2014 -- and the guys strongly advocate for more attention on this mangaka. Shea and Derek recall their earlier discussion of Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life, where the figure of Matsumoto is central to Tatsumi's autobiographical narrative. The stories in Cigarette Girl demonstrate the artist's style storytelling, which he referred to as "komaga" (or "panel pictures" in English), with its emphasis on a cinema-influenced panel breakdown and a more adult subject matter. Along with this, all of the stories end ambiguously or "obscurely," without any neat resolution or closure, underscoring the mature and real-life tone found in Matsumoto's work. About all of the pieces in this collection have something to do with , complicated, compromised, or unrequited relationships, with Matsumoto writing from both male and female perspectives.  And it is this theme where Derek and Shea find the common ground with the other book they discuss this month, Riichi Ueshiba's Mysterious Girlfriend X, Vol. 1 (Vertical Comics). This story has everything to do with relationships, but, as the guys point out, it has perhaps the weirdest premise they've encountered on the manga series so far. The narrative's 17-year-old protagonist and focalizer, Akira Tsubaki, becomes addicted to his new love interest -- literally! -- after tasting some of her drool. He gets sick if he goes without a dose of her saliva every day or so. His drool-defined heartthrob, Mikoto Urabe, is a complete enigma, a mystery made all the more confounding by her hobby of scissor play. Urabe has an uncanny ability to cut quickly and precisely almost any material with her scissors, which she carries holster-like in her panties. In fact, it's the "panty part" of this book that receives much of the guys' attention. Shea and Derek aren't exactly sure what to make of Ueshiba's fascination with older teenage girls' bodies, or the fact that he finds certain "cute" acts so alluring. As the artist summarizes at the end of this first volume, "Don't you think a girl who drools when she falls asleep is cute? Well, this is a comic about that sort of girl." Still, the guys never suggest that Ueshiba is any sort of creepy pedophile, and, in fact, they even see the benefits of setting his particular story within a high school milieu. Be that as it may, Mysterious Girlfriend X has to be one of the most head-scratching stories Shea and Derek have encounter in some time, and, along with Cigarette Girl, provides them with much discussion fodder for this month's episode.

According to legend one of the most revered styles of martial arts was invented by a Shaolin Nun named Ng Mui. She was one of five survivors of a battle with the Chin Empire who had outlawed the practice of Kung Fu and attacked the Fu Shan Shaolin temple where Ng Mui lived. After her travels through China she ran into a young woman who was being forced into marriage to an officer of the Chin army. She didn't want to marry this tyrant but the officer said if she did not marry him, he would kill her father and wed her anyway. The Shaolin Nun Ng Mui took the girl up to the nearest temple and taught her a totally different type of martial art one that was meant for a young girl her size, a smarter way of fighting with short fast movements using the snake and the crane as inspiration. In 9 months the girl was ready. The Shaolin Nun Ng Mui spoke to the officer and told him that if he beat her in a fight she would marry him. He laughed and of course agreed to the fight. When the fight came, the officer was unquestionably defeated after which he left the area and left the Young Girl named Wing Chun alone. The Young Yim Wing Chun Continued her training and became a legend for her great fighting skills, after many generations within her family, the style of Kung Fu was past on to Chan Wah the money changer and then to Yip Man who in turn passed it on to the rest of the world. Welcome to maLineage.com. The best place on the internet to find information about the lineage of any style of martial arts and learn about your favorite martial arts legends and celebrities. And welcome to the martial arts lineage podcast. This is episode 1. My name is Tim Johnson and I'll be hosting interviews with martial arts masters and instructors from across the country and around the globe. Martial arts has been a huge part of my life for almost 20 years now; I've studied and taught several styles of karate, kung fu, and capoeira and I've found something in each style to relate to so many other aspects of life. In an effort to broaden my knowledge of martial arts history, I've developed this site, maLineage.com, dedicated to capturing and preserving the history of all styles of martial arts. You can follow the lineage tree of any martial artist in the database and read stories, legends, timelines and quotes from every person in the database. That means that eventually, every martial artist in the world could have their own page that outlines their complete lineage and their impact on the world of martial arts. And if you study martial arts, that includes you. You can sign up with a free account now to create a page of your own and incorporate yourself into the massive lineage tree. And furthermore, you can go to other people's pages and share experiences you've had, stories, quotes and other information about your martial arts colleagues. I've been working to build an accurate historical lineage tree of all styles of martial arts as far back in history as possible. I've got a long ways to go, which is why I need your help, but so far I've added hundreds of people like Ueshiba, Miyamoto Musashi, Ip Man, etc. etc. including the founders of as many styles as I've been able to find. I believe that modern martial artists, especially us here in the western world, can learn a lot from the philosophies and ideals of the ancient masters who originally developed martial arts. To look into the minds of the creators, to read stories of the development and influences of these arts, and to draw parallels between ancient martial philosophies of all types and your own life is truly revealing of the meaning of martial arts. I'm so excited about this podcast and I have a lot of interviews lined up with martial arts masters and instructors from all around world that any martial arts enthusiast will definitely enjoy. So join me as I speak candidly with martial arts masters of many different styles about the history and development of the arts and how the art continues to develop today. you can look forward to interviews with Shihan Dana Abbott, Japanese sword master, Antonio Graceffo, living in Southeast Asia as a martial arts anthropologist, Master Spencer Gee, a weapons master from New York, and many more. All of these people have dedicated their lives to martial arts and are constantly striving to spread their beliefs throughout the world to create what I believed to be a better human race. Martial arts as a whole as well as any physical activity is healthy both physically and mentally which is why I won't be focusing on one particular style of martial arts. I think if you ask any accomplished martial artist they will tell you that no one style is better than any other style; they're all for your own personal benefit. I've already recorded a handful of interviews now and it's been a blast talking to all these different people. They've been so willing to share their insight and experiences and I can't wait to share them with all of you. Like I said, my motivation for creating this podcast is to learn as much as I can about martial arts and of course share that information with you, but I'd also love to get feedback from anyone out there listening who might have questions they want me to ask or people you want me to interview. I'd love to hear what you like or don't like about the show so please, if you have any suggestions, go to maLineage.com and click on "Contact" at the bottom of the page where you can send a message to me directly and tell me anything you want about the podcast or the website. I want this to be something everyone can enjoy. I won't take up any more of your time, I just wanted to use episode 1 to say hello and introduce myself. Check out the next episode for an interview with Guro/Grandmaster Peter Freedman, who's trained air marshalls, special forces and hundreds of troubled youths in the city of Boston, which earned him a Lifetime Achievement award in 1989 from the Mayor of Boston. It's a great interview and I hope any martial artist will really get a lot out of all these interviews. So enjoy the shows, go check out the brand new website maLineage.com which was just launched on April 20 of 2011, make sure to leave some feedback, and sign up for a free account to become a part of martial arts history. My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-413b987487475eb423be6710615e9d62}

Thoughts on the letter recently sent out by the Aikikai, and the ramifications of it.For more information about Spirit Aikido Online:http://spiritaikido.com/spiritaikidoonline