“…stay grounded” . It was the year 1990 and with this sentence, a famous Italian singer, Vasco Rossi opened his concert in Milan. In the practice of Aikido, we often meet two dual perspectives. On the one hand, those who experience discipline from a strictly material point of view. Techniques are investigated, effectiveness is sought, […]
Can a discipline help to better investigate the phenomenon we call “life”? And if so, how? Faced with life, we are overwhelmed by our limits. We all have a direct experience of it, because we are all crossed by and surrounded by life. Defining life in a complete way or schematizing it in such a […]
Does it make sense to question, one more time, about truth?To what extent can the practice of a discipline support or not this research? Referring the topic of truth the human being put a lot of effort and much has been said. Let’s just think about philosophers but also the various sciences: we have to […]
If the partner gets stuck, everyone usually insists on pushing and pressing on the point of contact. Instead, I relax the point and change direction. At that point, if my mate is a living human, he will start moving However, there are also many humans who are not alive. Two years ago, just before everything […]
In “La Voie des Dieux” (The Way of Gods) , Itsuo Tsuda wrote: In a tense situation like that of a real fight, with real swords, things happen that would be unpredictable in ordinary times. Can we call this fact fixation? When we are out of focus and chat with friends, we can move from […]
Do you know the “samurai wasp“? No? It is a small insect that we will soon get to know, because it will be introduced into our fields in order to try to counter the spread of the brown marmorated stink bug. In fact, among the gifts of globalization there is also the spread on a […]
On June, 6th, the Intercultural Association Italy-Japan Sakura organized the event “Haiku Open Air “. In the gorgeous garden of the Parco della Tesoriera in Turin, participants enjoyed the beauty, depth and distinctive features of Japanese poetry, then trying to write some haiku, in Italian and Japanese. The Sakura Association is the institution where we […]
As spring gives us brighter days, it also brings us the first evidences of gradual reopening. In June we will be allowed to start again indoor training, in compliance with safety protocols. We think it’s appropriate to approach this phase by taking advantage of the reflections of experts who offer us perspectives of interpretation of […]
Some thought about the meaning of wearing a black belt in martial arts
One of the points of contact and comparison between Western and Eastern thought is offered by investigating founding elements of nature. In our area, since ancient times, air, water, earth and fire have been considered the elements whose combinations build up what exists in nature. Over time, the systematized study of nature (Physics) and its […]
