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- From: wrat@unisql.UUCP (wharfie)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Stupid Religious Views
- Message-ID: <4441@unisql.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:35:52 GMT
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- In article <1ha4t1INNl9i@male.EBay.Sun.COM> scheid@danzan.EBay.Sun.COM writes:
- >1.) How about a picture of O'Sensei at the Shomen.
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- We don't have one...
- >
- >2.) Are the Aikidokas taught all things possess Ki? Even Rocks?
- > Then the Shinto belief that Kami are ever pervasive is transmitted.
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- Kami are singular spirits, but ki is a generalized life force.
- In fact, wouldn't a kami have ki ??? Ki seems much more of a zen
- concept to me.
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- I once heard it explained this way: In Shinto, everything has
- its own soul, but in Buddhism everything shares a part of the same soul.
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