ACUPUNCTURE – Chinese system of medicine and healing by the manipulation of needles on certain key points of the body, known as meridians. AI-“Harmony” Philosophically it’s the force of human beings and nature. A force keeping the universe in harmony. A more broad concept explains Ai as ...
Premodern martial artists who embraced such religious sentiments are thus the precursors of an Awa Kenzō or an Ueshiba Morihei 植芝盛平 (1883–1969)—the founder of Aikidō—who during the formative period of modern budō each taught in their own way that unity with the universe, or, in ...