CIRCLE - MOKUSO - UKE - GLANCE - ESSENTIAL RULES OF CEREMONIAL AND RESPECT

The dojo is located at cross of two ways: the first, that of our everyday life with all that that comprises of soft comfort, facility, dispersion and alienation. The second, at the same time narrower and more deserts, which of our clean discovered, our own progression and our achievement.

. uselessness of the word
. need for silence
. need for the presence of the others
. obligation of a return on oneself

To accept the ceremonial, to respect the ritual, it is initially to affirm its desire to learn something while being put at the Eastern school. It is then to facilitate the exchange between two civilizations and to show its intention to include/understand a way of thinking and a mode of spirit, a great curiosity and especially much of humility.

That which takes the responsability inside a dojo to transmit a knowledge, a thought or a technique finds sometimes, seems to us it in a position of arbitrary power artificially founded on the absolute authority and the prestige, unquestioned, not contradicted, and which the rites and the ceremonial perpetuate.

Seemingly, the relationship between individuals is narrowly depending on the ritual. In fact, they are established and develop according to the personality of the Master who by his culture, his know-how and its knowledge-to be, can transmit a knowledge and give to the place a particular and intense atmosphere. Often, its presence is enough to give birth to at the pupils the respect in his authentic form and most sincere.

The ceremonial with it only, and its acceptance by all the elements of the community constitute to some extent the rule of the game. The permanent research of the correct attitude, at rest as with the combat, of the harmony on the level of oneself and others is the principle even improvement which makes of an individual an accomplished man. It avoids excesses of any kind, familiarity or carelessness. It makes easier the community life by obliging each one to control the least details of its control. It obliges with the effort and fact call to the will. In that, it is enough to create “better” of each practise. The ceremonial must be voluntarily agreed. It is the base essential to a work jointly advantageous.

It is in this direction that it is necessary to include/understand the ceremonial and the exercises ritual in AIKIDO. They have of another goal only that to prepare the combatant with good to behave and to take again a thought of NITOBE Inazo in “Bushido, the heart of Japan”:

“ … To cultivate your spirit in such a way that, even when you quietly sat, the idea cannot even come to coarsest from the churls to dare to attack you.”