Martial Arts Magazine Budo International 376 – February 2 fortnight – 2019

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consciousness to our solutions to aggression. As Jung said in the words opening the first video in our first series, "The idea is not to imagine figures of light, but to make the darkness conscious." The Art becomes seen not as a matter of doing aggression well, but of dealing well with it, which may or may not be a matter of doing it "better" than the other. In other words, we become increasingly able to engage with others in a harmonious way, and become

increasingly inaccessible to hostile intentions, provocations or neurosis on the part of others. And the more grounded we are in this space, the clearer and more effective we should be in our will to act when circumstances require it, and as surely as no one beats everyone, equally sure it is that there can be times and places beyond one's ability to harmonize. If the flying fickle finger of Fate puts you on Flight 93, it is time to say "Lets Roll."


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