合気道の冬

合気道の冬

Aunkai : The feeling, passing the door

One of the most important steps in understanding the energy is the developpement of the feeling in order to be able to perceive and understand the nature and the movement of the things that surround us and that we are made of.

In martial arts it is an element we forget too often, it is left aside and concealed by a lack of comprehension.
It is essential to progress and penetrate the core of the Aunkai.

In order to practice this feeling, Akuzawa Sensei has transmitted the following exercise to us : it is the pressure or the non pressure that guides the partner. The exercise can be done with the eyes closed too. Forgetting the brain and just feeling allows to easily follow the movements of the person in front of us.

And the one guiding as he’s into the feeling has the weight of a feather, and makes the energy go through the hand of the one he’s guiding. The exercise is a way more difficult than it seems and it allows to practice this essential element, to become one with it.

Christophe Ksiazkiewicz "Kiaz"

One of the difficulties to do this correctly comes from our imprisonnement within the limits of the physical body. The practioners remain in waiting of their own body signal to move. They « intellectualize » instead of feeling. They contract in the wait instead of letting go completely without waiting at all, the perception is enough to launch the movement.

In order to develop our perceptions there is no secret: we must practice them.

If we take the exemple of the cat : it’s motionless, and yet it feels, knows when the bird will be accessible, it’s confident, it bounces nether before nor after.

It reminds me of the story of Neko no myojutsu 猫の妙術 the wonderful technique of the cat saying it is well in the non-willing that we accomplish the action the better.

This mix of all that is among a unity that goes beyond our physical and visual limits we find it, among others, in indian philosophy. The reality, its gods, its cosmos, its creatures are a fundamental unity.

In the philosophy of the Advaita वेदान्त which means « non duality » we find a tamoul text, Ellâm Onru (« All is One ») which starts like this :

1.    All, including the world you see, as well as yourself, the witnesser of the world, all is One.

2. All that you consider to be me, you, him, her, and this, all is One.

3. Sensible beings, as well as the motionless and insensitive (the earth, the air, the fire, the water), all of this is One.
The text also says the unity of the world has a multitude of aspects linked to one another.

Its third teaching is the energetic dimension. If all is One, and if all is linked, we can also say that all is energy that the hindu call prana.

In order to understand and apprehend this feeling, all we have to do is go into the wild and close our eyes to disconnect of the physical world surrounding us, the goal being to feel all the things that surround us in order to get used to feeling all those things in their energetic form and not physical form.

Nature is the best playground and training field we can get to progress in our discovery of the pure feeling.

By working in this direction, the practioner can access the deep teaching of the Aunkai, which too much practioners find yet hermetic because they remain standing at the door Akuzawa Sensei is opening for us.

The one that allows us to transform our perception of the body, our sensations, our reactions, our vision of the world and ourselves.

The Aunkai is a Bujutsu of deep transformation.
It puts in account the most subtil within us, in order for us to make this transformation possible, and the feeling is a necessary common thread.

"What’s essential is invisible to the eyes"

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