River City Aikido - Sacramento

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For Sensei Steve Patek

What is A Sensei?

A Sensei is more then a Father, a friend, a mentor and a teacher,

For you enter into a family at the dojo that is freely and voluntarily chosen,

And yet the transformation of oneself through their strong yet loving guidance forms your very marrow.

You become the clay that they mold, their blood and sweat becomes as much a part of you as yours becomes a part of them,

There is an adoption of spirit and one is knitted into a lineage that one can truly never leave,

Through both our memories and our training and future teaching of others their lives continue on,

An unbroken circle of O’Sensei’s Dharmakaya goes on filling the universe with unbroken Ki,

New dancers join the circle of the eternal dance in our Dojos and the voice of all of our Beloved Masters can be heard in earnest Keiko.

Craig T

A Sensei (Master) challenging us, is not to make us feel bad or to insult us.

It is to act like an awakening stick to break apart our adhesions and calcifications that keep us from growing in skill and talent.

Our old behaviors and movements are so ingrained in us and unconscious behaviors, that they must be dragged out into the light and hit with hammer blows to free us.

The more we can humbly, openly and willingly engage with this process of transformation, the faster we can grow in the art.

In this process if we can truly realize how little we actually know, the faster we can grow.

Our first opponent is our own ego and it is this opponent that it is the hardest to defeat and throw off and leave on the mat.

Craig T

Congratulations on Lizz and Craig passing their 2nd Kyu test