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Of course judo is also a sport to be practiced with pleasure and fun. Jigoro Kano was a sportsman himself and an Olympic sportpromotor. Nothing wrong with it. But Mitesco also wants to do something with the other point of view of our Great Sensei.
In the menu on the left side you can see what you will find on this webpage. Judo and human behavior.
An other sound
Mitesco is different:
Who knows it can attribute something to a small piece of jita kyoei in the year 2008.
'Mitesco' is the motto and the pseudonym I have chosen. It says everything about how I am practicing Judo.
The subtitle of this page is: 'the gentle way'. Some may not understand it properly. Judo has often been translated with 'the gentle way'. Correctly some judoka don't agree with that, although Jigoro Kano himself provoked the misunderstanding while stressing the moral education so heavily. I will distinguish two ways of gentleness. 'Gentle' in the word ju is not the same gentleness as in the word wa. The first is a physical principle of flexibility in the context of kuzushi and seiryoku zenyo; the second is a spiritual principle of moral gentleness. More gentleness as a spirituality, a way of life, living the jita kyoei. Both principles must be harmonized with each other. In that sense man can grow to the perfection of his person as a whole, serving the world. Living the spirit of the founders.
That's the way I am concerned about Judo. Mitesco: I become gentle. I'm not perfect - yet. Judo is a way for me to become it more and more. To become more free, physically and spiritually.
Kyuzo Mifune 1883-1965
Little beats small when little is smart. First with the head, and then with the heart.
Bryce Courtenay, born 1933
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
Lao-tsu
We can say that Judo is an art because it is a method of arriving at self-realization and true self-expression. We can further say that Judo is a science because it implies mastery of various laws of nature: gravity, friction, momentum, velocity, weight transmission, and unison of forces. In its most important phase, it constitutes a kind of higher logic developed through practice and the ascension of the true personality: a realization of the spiritual self in the philosophic rather than the religious sense of the word.
There is a proverb: "Once a judoka, ever a judoka in the heart."
Note * Wasei: Mitesco plays a little game in Kanji. Wasei is the word for 'made in Japan', but in that case only the first character is the same (和製). 'Wa (和)' means both 'Japanese' as 'Peace, harmony.' The last, 'sei' (成) means: to become, grow, maturate. Wasei is in this way both 'Mitesco', as 'become a Japanese'.
A beautiful word to me is : 和気 waki – peace, unity, harmony. |
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