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[BUDO]. A lifestyle.

"It is never late." I do not know who said this phrase in his day but should be wise! The truth is that I am a person that leads to the letter his truth, which lately is becoming my true too. But here we go, the mess.

Earlier this semester we taught a seminar whose theme was treated Budo, a term that encompasses all Japanese martial arts (I swear, kendo, aikido, karate, are the most common). The novelty of the case attracted much attention to the class in general. Say that many of us never had the least penetrated in this world and we had a misconception of him. And it is thought that this technique, the martial arts I mean, they are merely self-defense sport, competitive sport, violent and full of anger, a struggle. That is our mistake, for it to go much further.

The Bushido is purely spiritual inspiration from Eastern philosophy (Taoism in particular, in addition to the current Zen Buddhism, among others), and dates back to years ago in the hands of the samurai warriors. Perhaps there comes our confusion when relating to violence, but we must take into account the spiritual philosophy prevailing in the East, so far from our other hand.

This philosophy of which I speak is based on a duality that represents positive and negative aspects of the human spirit and nature. The Yin represents stillness and contemplation, and action-Yang and expansion. The essence of these arts is the importance they give to the person meditation, balance, emotional stability and thought, merging with nature and the opponent's own body knowledge, empathy (as played in our career), the introspection of the individual, all designed to transform the non-aggression aggression, achieving self-knowledge and creating a sincere and real.

This Eastern philosophy allows us to change a negative feeling in a positive, to know ourselves through timing of our body and mind, so you can know and respect the others. I do not know if this sounds a blunder, but it is important to the person having a known time to meditate, relax and get in tune with itself. Do not let the hassles, impulses or doubts keep us from strengthening our person, but we should all love ourselves enough to dedicate some time to ourselves and take care of both outside and inside. Personally, I think a nice way to go.

As future educators and social workers, or at least I hope so, I think it important that we form ourselves to be people of integrity, thorough, empathic, with a huge respect for others and to ourselves, people who give importance to life as they defended this philosophy, and that we always present a positive view of people, and believe in rehabilitation, the possibility and capacity for improvement.

So the seminar itself was not as practical as I imagined it was to be, mostly because I was wrong about what I would find, but I liked the importance given to these values, this lifestyle on the other hand I admire.

To conclude this post, I leave you with the trailer for the movie "Kunfu Panda", which touches the subject of a fomar entertaining, lively and fun, and I guess you will have seen the majority.

On the other hand, no less important. . . Much encouragement to everyone!

If you change your position, you will change your attitude.

If you change your attitude, something inside will change.

If something inside you changes, your life will change.

If your life changes, everything will change your destiny.

Hikitsuchi Sensei Michio