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Aikido: Gratitude

4/21/2012

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Consider the Founder's saying: "Loyalty and devotion lead to bravery. Bravery leads to the spirit of self-sacrifice. The spirit of self-sacrifice creates trust in the power of love." It suggests that cultivation of one virtue can engender others. Just now I am pondering the question: what does Gratitude lead to?
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Corky Quakenbush link
4/24/2012 06:53:13 am

In my way of thinking, Gratitude is yet another variation of the body of moral principles, the embodiment of which promote unification and the benefits derived from such. Think about moral qualities such as Courage, Acceptance, Trust, Compassion,Honesty, etc. and imagine the introduction of one of their opposites: Fearfulness, Rejection, Distrust, Apathy, Dishonesty into the embodiment - it will quickly promote the turning of all the other qualities to their opposites. In other words, if one embodies Fearfulness, one can not trust, and so will not be honest. Fear pulls one in to protect oneself so one can not feel compassion nor can one accept a person or situation that seems disadvantageous to oneself.

But Gratitude inspires Appreciation which gives Courage to Accept, feel Compassion and Trust that those things which seem disadvantageous to the self actually benefit the self by benefitting all.

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Michelle Ma
6/30/2012 05:29:22 pm

I liked the quote, it's very apt. 'The warrior abandons his desire to flee and against the fear of being killed marches onwards, the feelings of love make him feel somehow shielded though he is covered with only a thin cotton fabric.' Gratitude is harbored inward and displayed when it is possible to speak true gratitude. For me gratitude is primarily an emblem of communication, but it's hard to pay it forward, to speak it meaningfully when 'thank you' is so often a mere courtesy.

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