Teachings of Ueshiba Sensei

[bushido_man96]

Hehehe, thats pretty much the way I see it, too.

[Ichi_Geki]

Yeah. I dont buy into the mysticism. It may be for some people, but I rather be skillful than mystical.

[RichardZ]

I agree. Although I have some altercation of other methods thought to or used in reality based situations and said goes for martial myths, legends, and glorification.

[Toptomcat]

Can you provide some context- perhaps the surrounding three paragraphs or so? Do you have any other instances in the same text of that precise term- "real techniques"? That's often extremely helpful in figuring out difficult terms in texts translated from a foreign language.

[Jay]

As far as I am concerned Ki really is just a mentality

All those so called Ki tricks are just based in bio mechanical principles and some bravery.

[Ichi_Geki]

Can you provide some context- perhaps the surrounding three paragraphs or so? Do you have any other instances in the same text of that precise term- "real techniques"? That's often extremely helpful in figuring out difficult terms in texts translated from a foreign language.

Surrounding Paragraphs?...Hmmm...Ueshiba Sensei Never really wrote anything down. Most of his teachings were passed on by mouth.

[Toptomcat]

You said this was an except from a book. I assumed the book was by Ueshiba- I suppose I was wrong. Was it presented as a contextless, single-line quote from Ueshiba in the book, or was there more to it? Were there any other direct quotes from Ueshiba that used that same term, 'real techniques'?