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Kajo #1
Just beneath my tree
I lived happily
I should have never
gone far from my tree
Just beneath my tree
I lived happily
I should have never
let him out of my sight

Georges Brassens *

Is there a tree in Paradise ?

I watch the modern world, its beliefs and its games, its movies and its books. Tales of marvel,
fantasy tales are everywhere. It's only normal as man does not only feed on bread, he must feed
his spirit and his soul, the heart has its needs.

But these fairy and fantasy tales are fake, they are movies decors, pastiches, a caricature of the
transcendent realities which are the fabric of the world.

Nevertheless, marvels and fantasy do exist, they are here, so close and they are true and man is
allowed an access to that world.
I invite you in these marvels.
But I do not ask for a blind trust. On the contrary, I expect you to accept nothing that can't be
proved with human reason. For human reason, since it does not live outside this world is a
legitimate measurement of that Universe and can understand it until the natural limit of its enquiry
field.

I propose you a great game.

A game with episodes.
A game not dissimilar to a puzzle.
Let's begin that game on this february 23, 2012, because nobody has begun it before me, that's
the way it is and fate works in mysterious ways.
But that game won't stop with me because it is not the game of one man.
A game which will lead these who will follow me on paths and in places they hardly suspect the
very existence.
A game which will create lots of disbeliefs and opposition, the road won't be an easy cruise and
there will be many questions I'm sure I won't be able to answer.

But a game where the logic will talk for itself, with no need for anyone to talk in its name, and will
put all things in order, inevitably.
A game that will make the interpretations of Aikido after Morihei Ueshiba's voice went to silence
look like childish games.
A game which will bring light like a sun, regenerate the lost enthusiasm, erase doubts and justify
the efforts of those who, for so many years, have sincerely searched on the path shown by O
sensei.

I propose you the great game of Aikido.

Careful, we are not talking of Aikido considered only as O sensei conceived it but Aikido as it has
always existed, as the Founder saw it, whose mission was to reveal it to us, after thousands of
years of invisibility in the dust of men's history.

Let's begin that long journey with a simple image and let's pray the hurried reader does not
assume we are ripe for the psychiatric ward.

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Time is required, patience, goodwill and a healthy dose of humility. Nothing is granted but the
horizon is free at last. Longo mai !

Philippe Voarino, march 2012.

*Famous French singer and song writer, TN

Philippe Voarino next seminar: Sunday, 21 April, 2013, Aikido Gasshuku 2013, Antibes, France

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