{"id":3491,"date":"2011-04-09T14:07:06","date_gmt":"2011-04-09T19:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2011-05-18T16:24:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T21:24:18","slug":"crashing-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/crashing-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Crashing Waves"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a>He has this way of putting you at ease, at calming you. I don’t know if it’s a parlor trick, or if it’s something he picked up out West. But if it is<\/em> a parlor trick, it’s a damn good one.<\/p>\n

Or maybe it’s just practice. If it is, then I think I understand. You see, there is really only one thing about John you need to know. He’s always training. Always.<\/p>\n

He told me this story once. I was having a bad day, about something trivial, and was dealing with it as I always do. Badly.<\/p>\n

He took me aside, and told me something I remember to this day: “Jerry, it’s all crashing waves.”<\/p>\n

“The anger you feel right now? The anger that’s keeping you from training? It’s just a wave, crashing on the shore.”<\/p>\n

It’s just a wave, he told me, rising slowly on the surf, rising until it wavers, until it topples and recedes, slowly, inevitably, away.<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course there’s more to it than that.<\/p>\n

You may not know this, and John certainly didn’t advertise it, but he is deeply involved in transcendental meditation. It’s why he would disappear sometimes, for a week or two out West. He wasn’t going to Vegas. He was meditating.<\/p>\n

And this is what I mean when I say that John is always training. Not just Aikido, or only Aikido. John has bigger fish to fry.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

You know, now that I look back, I really don’t think it was a parlor trick at all…<\/p>\n

We’re going to miss you, John. Please keep in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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