Aikidoka
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Oct 8, 2026
Do'onHOST
Because this is actually like, this is how we train.
Do'onHOST
How many times does a pianist do their scales, right? How many times does an Aikidoka do Ikkyo, right? or or whatever, right? You can't even count the number of times.
Do'onHOST
It's no different in Dharma practice, because we're really training to make our bodhisattva vow, allow our bodhisattva vow, the bodhicitta, to come alive.
Do'onHOST
And it would be so great if you just made the vow and, you know, I got it.
Nick WalkerGUEST
Part of my learning process from very early was also teaching, and I've been teaching almost as long as I've been training, in, in that sense.
Nick WalkerGUEST
And so my, my development as an Aikidoka myself has been driven by, uh, uh, continually since I was in my, my mid-teens-
SeanHOST
Mm-hmm
Nick WalkerGUEST
... uh, by the fact that I'm also responsible for teaching.
Nick WalkerGUEST
And that, I, I think that's very good for my development as an Aikidoka to really, it's really forced me to, uh, think about the techniques in terms of what's important about them that I want to transmit, and how do I break them down, and that's helped me develop as well.
Nick WalkerGUEST
So, uh, in that, way back in the, uh, early 1990s, when I was still in my, uh, 20s, I moved to, uh, California, moved across the country from the East Coast to, to Berkeley, California, and, uh, started teaching here and discovered, you know, I was distant from my other instructors, physically distant, and, uh, you know, young and poor and couldn't afford to travel.
Nick WalkerGUEST
And so I, you know, if I wanted instruction, I would have to turn elsewhere, and there's a lot of great Aikido, you know, in the, in the Bay Area, and at that time especially, um, you know, George Leonard Sensei, Richard Heckler Sensei, and Wendy Palmer Sensei were all teaching together at the Aikido of Mount Tamalpais Dojo.
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SeanHOST
Mm