{"id":6071,"date":"2014-08-05T13:40:53","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T18:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=6071"},"modified":"2014-08-05T13:40:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T18:40:53","slug":"buddhism-vs-aikido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/buddhism-vs-aikido\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhism vs. Aikido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">By Lawrence Bienemann<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lawrence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-2842\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/lawrence-112x150.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Bienemann\" width=\"116\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a>In her new book, Paradise in Plain Site: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Zen teacher and Buddhist priest Karen Maezen Miller wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These days I want nothing more than to enter an empty room with a group of strangers and sit still and quiet in samadhi, non-distracted awareness, for the better part of the day. I am always astonished by the presence of people who would dare to do such a thing\u2014burn perfectly good day light to get nothing done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What struck me about that paragraph was that my first reaction was to translate it to my Aikido practice. I caught myself transposing words to fit my life at the dojo. It went something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These days I want nothing more than to enter the dojo with a group of aikidoists and practice quietly the philosophy and techniques of O\u2019Sensei\u2014-sometimes for the better part of the day. I am always grateful for the presence of people who would be here to do such a thing\u2013burn perfectly good day light to get nothing done and perhaps come back again the next day and do it all over again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Gassho, Sensei Miller and O-Sensei.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"http:\/\/seniorsamurai.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/24\/buddhism-vs-aikido\/\">Senior Samurai<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lawrence Bienemann In her new book, Paradise in Plain Site: Lessons from a Zen Garden, Zen teacher and Buddhist priest Karen Maezen Miller wrote: These days I want nothing more than to enter an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawrence","category-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}