by PETER BOYLAN – “I think there are a lot of fluffy unicorns and rainbows floating around some Aikido dojos, and they do not contribute anything positive to the training or the culture. Ueshiba did preach about Aikido being the “art of peace” and “unifying the world.” He was also a right-wing militarist from a Neo-Confucion culture. He would have had a great deal of difficulty wrapping his head around 21st-century Western ideas of what the art of peace means.” In this extract from The Budo Bum – Interview with Peter Boylan, the author touches a very sensitive nerve of the Aikido community… Continua a leggere The Art of Peace? →