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The Art of Peace

Edited by John Stevens
By Morihei Ueshiba

$16.95
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9781645472421
- Paperback
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Shambhala Publications
12/12/2023
Pages: 248
Size: 5 x 7.25
ISBN: 9781645472421
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Aikido’s founding master Morihei Ueshiba offers timeless teachings on fearlessness, compassion, love of nature, and victory over conflict through the practice of peace.

Includes a new introduction by translator John Stevens calligraphy and poems by Ueshiba.

The inspirational teachings in this collection show the real way of the warrior is based on compassion, wisdom, fearlessness, and love of nature. The teachings are drawn from the talks and writings of Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the Japanese martial art of aikido, a mind-body discipline he called the "Art of Peace." Aikido offers a nonviolent way to victory in the face of conflict (as compared to the cunning strategy advocated by Musashi's Book of Five Rings or Sun Tzu's Art of War).

Ueshiba believed that aikido principles, such as the Four Great Virtues of Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, could be applied to all the challenges we face in life—in personal and business relationships and in our interactions with society.

This is an expanded version of the original miniature edition that appeared in the Shambhala Pocket Classics series. It features a new introduction by John Stevens, as well as translated doka (didactic "poems of the Way"), and Ueshiba's own calligraphy.

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Author Bio
John Stevens
JOHN STEVENS is a Zen priest and was a professor of Buddhist Studies and Aikido instructor at Tohoku Fukushi University in Sendai, Japan, where he lived for thirty-five years. He is the author or translator of over forty books on Zen artists and their poetry, painting, and calligraphy, as well as on Aikido, swordsmanship, and other Japanese martial arts traditions. He lives in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Morihei Ueshiba
Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) was the founder of Aikido. At age eighteen, Ueshiba joined the Japanese military, during which time he also developed his skills in the martial arts. He eventually left the military, deeply discouraged by the death and destruction that results from combat. Ueshiba continued to experiment with a variety of martial arts, finding particular joy in the spiritual aspects of martial arts. He came to believe that a real warrior was one who was rooted in love, and it was in this spirit that he began to develop Aikido, a martial art that emphasizes harmony and the peaceful resolution of conflict.
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