Kampfkunstschule Shojin Aikido Koblenz

Aikido
Doka of the Day - August 21, 2021
Let us bind togather
Heaven and Earth, Kami and Man.
So we may guard and protect
This age of ours.
- Morihei Ueshiba

Aikido
Doka of the Day - August 4, 2021
Put the active principle (yo) into the right hand,
Turn the left into the passive (in)
And so guide the adversary.
- Morihei Ueshiba

Aikido
Doka of the Day - January 14, 2021
In a landscape abundant with advanced weaponry,
The living souls become one in prayer
With the virtue of the workings of the Kami of Creation (samuhara).
- Morihei Ueshiba

Doka of the Day - January 5, 2021
The spiritual essence of the Heavens and Earth,
Congealing becomes the Way of the Cross-Shape "+".
Harmony and Joy make up the Floating Bridge
That binds this world together.
- Morihei Ueshiba

Doka of the Day - February 14, 2020
Assume gedan and see
The spirit of the positive (yo) as in shadow (in).
Recognize the cuts and thrusts of the enemy's blade
As merely seigan.
- Morihei Ueshiba

Doka of the Day - February 4, 2020
Speeding down from Heaven,
The Kami of Light descends
Illuminating all the world
Even to the bottom of the seas.
- Morihei Ueshiba

Just received my Aikido 5th Degree black-belt from the Aikikai World Headquarters in Japan. I am truly humbled to say the least! Thank you Sensei Ishikawa for your kind recommendation and teachings.

Doka of the Day - November 27, 2019
You must realize this!
Aiki cannot be captured with the brush,
Nor can it be expressed with the mouth.
And so it is that one must proceed
To realization.
- Morihei Ueshiba

Doka of the Day - November 20, 2019
The bejeweled spirit-sword of Susanoo
Down to the world did come
There to shine in the eastern sky.
- Morihei Ueshiba

Doka of the Day - November 12, 2019
Izu!
By ritual purification, wash clean the soul.
The true form of the All-pervasive
Universal Principle cries out
(Izu-no-mitama).
In the midst of the Light courageously
With martial valor does it howl.
- Morihei Ueshiba