Aikido and the geometry of the universe
por Mariano Giacobone
English version at bottom
Esfera y cubo
Esfera y cubo
La esfera y el cubo son dos
formas opuestas de las cuales surgen las formas de todas las cosas. Se puede
decir que son las formas esenciales, la madre y el padre de todas las formas.
La esfera y el cubo manifiestan el principio cósmico del equilibrio.
La esfera integra aquellas formas diferentes
entre sí para interconectarlas en la unidad. El centro verdadero del círculo o
la esfera es un punto, pero el punto carece de dimensión y
por lo tanto escapa a nuestra percepción y capacidad de manifestación. No
pertenece a nuestro mundo, porque en nuestro mundo todo tiene extensión,
dimensión, ya que el mundo físico es forma, pero el punto pertenece
a otra escala del ser. Existe más allá de la realidad física, es literalmente
metafísico.
El punto simboliza la unidad, la totalidad, la
perfección. El punto lo contiene todo, sólo que en potencia, no manifestado. De
él nacen el cubo y la esfera, que son las formas en las cuales se revela el
punto. Lo que en el punto es todavía potencialidad (sin dimensiones) toma forma
a través del cubo y de la esfera.
Esta geometría expresa la esencia misma del
universo.
Un universo vivo y consciente, que piensa y respira,
hecho de luz, de naturaleza eléctrica (y por lo tanto dual) y que se transforma
todo el tiempo, siguiendo patrones geométricos.
La conciencia extiende su energía e información en forma radial,
desde un punto de quietud omnipresente a otros puntos siguiendo el deseo de dar
forma a su imaginación.
El deseo siempre es lo primero, es lo que pone en
marcha al espíritu.
El espíritu dirige a la energía y
esta se condensa en materia. Nuestro mundo físico es una creación
del espíritu. A su vez el mundo físico tridimensional le sirve de contención y
de límite al espíritu, es su vehículo.
Las ondas esféricas de luz se proyectan en las 3
dimensiones del cubo en una infinitud de frecuencias y colores creando todas
las formas y la ilusión de la realidad física.
Aclarando que esta es solo una descripción, la esencia es unidad,
conciencia infinita y por lo tanto indescriptible.
Cada cosa creada manifiesta de acuerdo a su lugar en la evolución,
una parte o un nivel de esta conciencia. En realidad se trata de planos y
frecuencias, desde los niveles más físicos,
densos y de baja vibración hasta los más espirituales y
sutiles que vibran a altísima frecuencia.
El movimiento de la conciencia nace en un punto
de quietud y finaliza en otro punto de quietud, siempre buscando el equilibrio.
La conciencia se mueve de a saltos.
Este movimiento es como la imaginación del Creador extendiéndose
desde un punto de reposo a otro para crear su universo físico tridimensional de
largo, ancho y espesor. Así se crea el espacio, o el escenario de la vida,
donde surgen la materia, el tiempo, el cambio y el movimiento.
Los límites de tu universo
La multiplicación y la división aparente del espacio en presiones
o cargas eléctricas opuestas, crean la fuerza de gravedad y la radiación,
que conforman la verdadera dinámica de este universo cambiante.
La información se irradia en forma de esfera y
viaja como una onda extendiéndose en espiral. Opuestamente, se materializa en
forma de cubo, de ahí las tres dimensiones de nuestro mundo físico.
La cuarta dimensión es el tiempo, que marca la duración y la continuidad de un
evento consciente a otro.
El tiempo es la medida del movimiento dentro de
los límites del cubo.
Nuestros sentidos están diseñados para manejarse dentro del cubo (de
ahí la realidad tridimensional de nuestra vida diaria) y para captar la presión
y el movimiento, la forma, los colores y una multitud de estímulos externos e
internos. En otras palabras, captan el desequilibrio.
Para poder percibir la otra parte del ciclo, que es la parte más
profunda, la que no se “ve”, la raíz de las cosas; hay que trascender los
sentidos y la mente ordinaria. De esta manera se puede ir más allá de los
límites del cubo (de nuestra realidad material habitual) y expandir las
dimensiones de tu conciencia.
La forma del mundo que percibes es la forma de tu conciencia. El
tiempo como lo percibes es el movimiento de tu conciencia. El tamaño y las
dimensiones de tu universo son las de tu conciencia.
Tu conciencia le da forma a la realidad
El cuerpo físico, como una cristalización de la materia
cósmica y de la esencia, se entrena en el camino de la vida humana para
convertirse en uno con el Universo y para acumular su energía milagrosa
("el espíritu sutil").
Además, los seres humanos deben tener como objetivo
principal de la vida, la gran ley del Cielo y de la Tierra, que se encuentra en
el despliegue creativo del Universo, y también proteger y purificar este mundo.
En esta búsqueda, primero hay que transcender el espíritu
ordinario, luego pulir y purificar la vitalidad del propio "nen"
(sentimientos y pensamientos), y con un solo propósito perseguir la unificación
de mente y cuerpo.
El Aikido es el camino de la armonía. Esta armonía es la
expresión de las leyes universales. Estas leyes no son otra cosa que el
conocimiento de la estructura y la dinámica del universo.
En
Aikido nos entrenamos para seguir estas leyes y comprender esta estructura, que
es a su vez la forma y la dinámica en las que uno está constituido como
individuo, o quizás sería más exacto decir, la forma en que uno mismo debe
construirse física y mentalmente para alcanzar un estado ideal tanto a nivel
marcial como en la vida.
Somos
espíritu y somos materia, y aunque ambos estados comparten un mismo origen,
tienen modalidades diferentes.
Ichirei Shikon Sangen hachiriki
Significa: Un espíritu, cuatro conciencias, tres orígenes,
ocho poderes.
La primera sección, "Ichirei Shikon" ("Un
Espíritu, Cuatro Almas o Conciencias"), es la estructura del mundo de los espíritus.
En la cosmología
shintoísta los humanos poseen un espíritu y cuatro almas: la turbulenta (aramitama), el
tranquilo (nigimitama), el feliz (sakimitama) y la maravillosa (kushimitama).
"Naohinomitama" es el espíritu que actúa como una especie de contenedor para las cuatro almas.
La segunda sección, "Sangen hachiriki" ("Tres
Orígenes, Ocho Poderes"), es la
estructura del mundo físico, del yo físico y de la
metodología del entrenamiento físico en el Aikido.
"Sangen" ("Tres Orígenes"), son los tres
elementos básicos del universo - el cielo, el ser humano y la tierra, representados por el círculo, el
triángulo y el cuadrado, lo suave, lo que fluye y lo duro.
En la estructura del Universo "Hachiriki", u 8
poderes o fuerzas, según el maestro Ueshiba, corresponden a una fuerza activa, una fuerza
quieta, una fuerza de tracción, una fuerza de relajación, una fuerza de división, una fuerza
de combinación, una fuerza de disolución y una fuerza de cristalización o
materialización.
Son 4 pares de opuestos complementarios que cíclica y
rítmicamente dan forma el universo físico.
Movimiento - Quietud
Materialización - Disolución
Tensión
- Relajación
Combinación – División
Las artes marciales nacieron en la forma del cuadrado, el
círculo y el triángulo (y de aquí todas las demás formas).
Así el triángulo simboliza el impulso, el inicio del
movimiento, la proyección energética.
El círculo alude al movimiento, a la continuidad, al
infinito.
El cuadrado representa lo estático, lo sólido, lo estable, lo
material.
La postura triangular propia del kamae (guardia), nos proporciona al mismo tiempo que estabilidad, la posibilidad de movernos en todas direcciones, ya sea hacia delante, hacia atrás, cambiando de frente rotando la cadera sin desplazar los pies (kaiten) o desplazándolos hacia delante o hacia atrás (Tenkan). La forma del tetraedro o pirámide nos permite el movimiento en cuatro y ocho direcciones.
La postura triangular propia del kamae (guardia), nos proporciona al mismo tiempo que estabilidad, la posibilidad de movernos en todas direcciones, ya sea hacia delante, hacia atrás, cambiando de frente rotando la cadera sin desplazar los pies (kaiten) o desplazándolos hacia delante o hacia atrás (Tenkan). La forma del tetraedro o pirámide nos permite el movimiento en cuatro y ocho direcciones.
El círculo es la figura distintiva del Aikido, ya sea como ondas o espirales, el círculo está siempre presente y, cuanto más perfecta su ejecución, tanto mejor la técnica. El movimiento circular carece de aristas, de interrupciones. La energía fluye libremente. Pero en ocasiones perseguimos el círculo solo a través de la circunferencia y nos olvidamos de sus otros dos componentes fundamentales: el radio y el centro. Sin la presencia de estos dos elementos la circunferencia se deshace. El radio es el camino de penetración para ocupar el centro.
El radio es una recta hacia el
centro y así debe ser la entrada (Irimi), directa, decidida. Y un centro firme
en los desplazamientos del cuerpo (tai sabaki), manteniendo el eje vertical, que se vuelve el axis de la acción. El desequilibrio del adversario y la
proyección surgen como consecuencia natural de este movimiento a partir de la postura y la actitud correcta.
El cuadrado se forma en las inmovilizaciones o retenciones (katame), con su base bien apoyada en el piso, las líneas de fuerza de sus diagonales cortando al Uke y su peso bajando por sus aristas de acuerdo a la ley de gravedad.
O´Sensei Ueshiba recurría en ocasiones a las imágenes del
triángulo, el círculo y el cuadrado para ilustrar conceptos ligados a los
movimientos y los momentos del Aikido.
Partiendo del punto y de la línea, que
aún no tienen superficie, estas son las figuras básicas de la geometría que,
cuando se les agrega volumen, se convierten en los cuerpos tridimensionales de
la esfera, el cubo y la pirámide.
Las imágenes que describe O´Sensei son el producto de su esfuerzo de síntesis por transmitirnos su pensamiento y conocimiento del Aikido, a su vez, exige de nosotros un empeño equivalente por develar su significado. Este no es un propósito puramente enciclopédico o intelectual sino la vía para orientar nuestra práctica hacia el mejoramiento de la técnica y a incrementar mediante el entrenamiento asiduo nuestro poder y entendimiento, al mismo tiempo nos llevará a descubrir la esencia y el camino del Aikido.
Sphere and cube
The sphere and the cube are two opposite forms from which the forms of all things arise. It can be said that they are the essential forms, the mother and the father of all forms.
The sphere and the cube manifest the cosmic principle of balance.
The sphere integrates those different forms from each other to interconnect them in unity. The true center of the circle or sphere is a point, but the point has no dimension and therefore escapes our perception and capacity for manifestation. It does not belong to our world, because in our world everything has extension, dimension, since the physical world is form, but the point belongs to another scale of being. It exists beyond physical reality, it is literally metaphysical.
The point symbolizes unity, totality, perfection. The point contains everything, only potentially, not manifested. From it are born the cube and the sphere, which are the ways in which the point is revealed. What at the point is still potentiality (without dimensions) takes shape through the cube and the sphere.
This geometry expresses the very essence of the universe.
A living and conscious universe, that thinks and breathes, made of light, of an electric nature (and therefore dual) and that is transformed all the time, following geometric patterns.
Consciousness extends its energy and information radially, from a point of omnipresent stillness to other points following the desire to shape your imagination.
Desire always comes first, it is what sets the spirit in motion.
The spirit directs energy and it condenses on matter. Our physical world is a creation of the spirit. In turn, the three-dimensional physical world serves as containment and limits the spirit, it is its vehicle.
The spherical waves of light are projected in the 3 dimensions of the cube in an infinity of frequencies and colors creating all forms and the illusion of physical reality.
Clarifying that this is only a description, the essence is unity, infinite consciousness and therefore indescribable.
Each created thing manifests according to its place in evolution, a part or a level of this consciousness. In reality it is about planes and frequencies, from the most physical, dense and low vibration levels to the most spiritual and subtle levels that vibrate at the highest frequency.
The movement of consciousness is born at a point of stillness and ends at another point of stillness, always looking for balance.
Consciousness jumps.
This movement is like the imagination of the Creator extending from one resting point to another to create its three-dimensional physical universe of length, width and thickness. This is how space is created, or the stage of life, where matter, time, change and movement arise.
The limits of your universe
The multiplication and apparent division of space into opposite electrical pressures or charges create the force of gravity and radiation, which make up the true dynamics of this changing universe.
The information radiates in the form of a sphere and travels like a spiraling wave. Opposite, it materializes in the form of a cube, hence the three dimensions of our physical world. The fourth dimension is time, which marks the duration and continuity of one conscious event to another.
Time is the measure of movement within the limits of the cube.
Our senses are designed to be handled within the cube (hence the three-dimensional reality of our daily life) and to capture pressure and movement, form, colors and a multitude of external and internal stimuli. In other words, they capture the imbalance.
To be able to perceive the other part of the cycle, which is the deepest part, the one that is not "seen", the root of things; we must transcend the senses and the ordinary mind. In this way you can go beyond the limits of the cube (from our usual material reality) and expand the dimensions of your consciousness.
The form of the world you perceive is the form of your consciousness. Time as you perceive it is the movement of your consciousness. The size and dimensions of your universe are those of your consciousness.
Your conscience shapes reality
The physical body, as a crystallization of cosmic matter and essence, trains itself in the path of human life to become one with the Universe and to accumulate its miraculous energy ("the subtle spirit").
In addition, human beings must have as their main objective of life, the great law of Heaven and Earth, which is in the creative unfolding of the Universe, and also to protect and purify this world.
In this search, you must first transcend the ordinary spirit, then polish and purify the vitality of the "nen" itself (feelings and thoughts), and with a single purpose pursue the unification of mind and body.
Aikido is the path of harmony. This harmony is the expression of universal laws. These laws are nothing other than knowledge of the structure and dynamics of the universe.
In Aikido we train ourselves to follow these laws and understand this structure, which is in turn the form and dynamics in which one is constituted as an individual, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, the way in which one must build oneself physically and mentally to reach an ideal state both at martial level and in life.
We are spirit and we are matter, and although both states share the same origin, they have different modalities.
It means: One spirit, four consciences, three origins, eight powers.
The first section, "Ichirei Shikon" ("One Spirit, Four Souls or Concerts"), is the structure of the spirit world.
In Shintoist cosmology, humans have a spirit and four souls: the turbulent (aramitama), the quiet (nigimitama), the happy (sakimitama) and the wonderful (kushimitama). "Naohinomitama" is the spirit that acts as a kind of container for the four souls.
The second section, "Sangen hachiriki" ("Three Origins, Eight Powers"), is the structure of the physical world, the physical self and the methodology of physical training in Aikido.
"Sangen" ("Three Origins"), are the three basic elements of the universe - the sky, the human being and the earth, represented by the circle, the triangle and the square, the soft, the flowing and the hard.
The point symbolizes unity, totality, perfection. The point contains everything, only potentially, not manifested. From it are born the cube and the sphere, which are the ways in which the point is revealed. What at the point is still potentiality (without dimensions) takes shape through the cube and the sphere.
This geometry expresses the very essence of the universe.
A living and conscious universe, that thinks and breathes, made of light, of an electric nature (and therefore dual) and that is transformed all the time, following geometric patterns.
Consciousness extends its energy and information radially, from a point of omnipresent stillness to other points following the desire to shape your imagination.
Desire always comes first, it is what sets the spirit in motion.
The spirit directs energy and it condenses on matter. Our physical world is a creation of the spirit. In turn, the three-dimensional physical world serves as containment and limits the spirit, it is its vehicle.
The spherical waves of light are projected in the 3 dimensions of the cube in an infinity of frequencies and colors creating all forms and the illusion of physical reality.
Clarifying that this is only a description, the essence is unity, infinite consciousness and therefore indescribable.
Each created thing manifests according to its place in evolution, a part or a level of this consciousness. In reality it is about planes and frequencies, from the most physical, dense and low vibration levels to the most spiritual and subtle levels that vibrate at the highest frequency.
The movement of consciousness is born at a point of stillness and ends at another point of stillness, always looking for balance.
Consciousness jumps.
This movement is like the imagination of the Creator extending from one resting point to another to create its three-dimensional physical universe of length, width and thickness. This is how space is created, or the stage of life, where matter, time, change and movement arise.
The limits of your universe
The multiplication and apparent division of space into opposite electrical pressures or charges create the force of gravity and radiation, which make up the true dynamics of this changing universe.
The information radiates in the form of a sphere and travels like a spiraling wave. Opposite, it materializes in the form of a cube, hence the three dimensions of our physical world. The fourth dimension is time, which marks the duration and continuity of one conscious event to another.
Time is the measure of movement within the limits of the cube.
Our senses are designed to be handled within the cube (hence the three-dimensional reality of our daily life) and to capture pressure and movement, form, colors and a multitude of external and internal stimuli. In other words, they capture the imbalance.
To be able to perceive the other part of the cycle, which is the deepest part, the one that is not "seen", the root of things; we must transcend the senses and the ordinary mind. In this way you can go beyond the limits of the cube (from our usual material reality) and expand the dimensions of your consciousness.
The form of the world you perceive is the form of your consciousness. Time as you perceive it is the movement of your consciousness. The size and dimensions of your universe are those of your consciousness.
Your conscience shapes reality
The physical body, as a crystallization of cosmic matter and essence, trains itself in the path of human life to become one with the Universe and to accumulate its miraculous energy ("the subtle spirit").
In addition, human beings must have as their main objective of life, the great law of Heaven and Earth, which is in the creative unfolding of the Universe, and also to protect and purify this world.
In this search, you must first transcend the ordinary spirit, then polish and purify the vitality of the "nen" itself (feelings and thoughts), and with a single purpose pursue the unification of mind and body.
Aikido is the path of harmony. This harmony is the expression of universal laws. These laws are nothing other than knowledge of the structure and dynamics of the universe.
In Aikido we train ourselves to follow these laws and understand this structure, which is in turn the form and dynamics in which one is constituted as an individual, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say, the way in which one must build oneself physically and mentally to reach an ideal state both at martial level and in life.
We are spirit and we are matter, and although both states share the same origin, they have different modalities.
Ichirei Shikon Sangen hachiriki
It means: One spirit, four consciences, three origins, eight powers.
The first section, "Ichirei Shikon" ("One Spirit, Four Souls or Concerts"), is the structure of the spirit world.
In Shintoist cosmology, humans have a spirit and four souls: the turbulent (aramitama), the quiet (nigimitama), the happy (sakimitama) and the wonderful (kushimitama). "Naohinomitama" is the spirit that acts as a kind of container for the four souls.
The second section, "Sangen hachiriki" ("Three Origins, Eight Powers"), is the structure of the physical world, the physical self and the methodology of physical training in Aikido.
"Sangen" ("Three Origins"), are the three basic elements of the universe - the sky, the human being and the earth, represented by the circle, the triangle and the square, the soft, the flowing and the hard.
In the structure of the "Hachiriki" Universe, or 8 powers or forces, according to Master Ueshiba, correspond to an active force, a still force, a traction force, a relaxation force, a division force, a combination force, a dissolution force and a crystallization or materialization force.
They are 4 pairs of complementary opposites that cyclically and rhythmically shape the physical universe.
Martial arts were born in the form of the square, the circle and the triangle (and hence all other forms).
Thus the triangle symbolizes the impulse, the beginning of the movement, the energy projection.They are 4 pairs of complementary opposites that cyclically and rhythmically shape the physical universe.
Movement - Stillness
Materialization - Dissolution
Tension - Relaxation
Combination - Division
Martial arts were born in the form of the square, the circle and the triangle (and hence all other forms).
The circle refers to movement, continuity, infinity.
The square represents the static, the solid, the stable, the material.
The triangular posture of the kamae (guard), provides at the same time as stability, the possibility of moving in all directions, either forward, backward, changing front by rotating the hip without shifting the feet (kaiten) or moving them towards forward or backward (Tenkan). The shape of the tetrahedron or pyramid allows us to move in four and eight directions.
The circle is the distinctive figure of Aikido, whether as waves or spirals, the circle is always present and, the more perfect its execution, the better the technique. The circular movement lacks edges, interruptions. Energy flows freely. But sometimes we chase the circle only through the circumference and forget its other two fundamental components: the radius and the center. Without the presence of these two elements the circumference is undone. The radius is the path of penetration to occupy the center.
The radius is a straight to the center and so must be the entrance (Irimi), direct, determined. And a firm center in the displacements of the body (tai sabaki), maintaining the vertical axis, which becomes the axis of the action. The imbalance of the adversary and the projection arise as a natural consequence of this movement from the correct posture and attitude.
The square is formed in the immobilizations or retentions (katame), with its base well supported on the floor, the lines of force of its diagonals cutting the Uke and its weight going down its edges according to the law of gravity.
These three geometric representations also have many other implications.
O'Sensei Ueshiba sometimes used the images of the triangle, the circle and the square to illustrate concepts linked to the movements and moments of Aikido.
Starting from the point and the line, which still have no surface, these are the basic figures of geometry that, when volume is added, become the three-dimensional bodies of the sphere, the cube and the pyramid.
These three geometric representations also have many other implications.
O'Sensei Ueshiba sometimes used the images of the triangle, the circle and the square to illustrate concepts linked to the movements and moments of Aikido.
Starting from the point and the line, which still have no surface, these are the basic figures of geometry that, when volume is added, become the three-dimensional bodies of the sphere, the cube and the pyramid.
The images that O'Sensei describes are the product of his synthesis effort to transmit his thoughts and knowledge of Aikido, in turn, demands from us an equivalent effort to unveil its meaning. This is not a purely encyclopedic or intellectual purpose but the way to guide our practice towards the improvement of the technique and to increase by regular training our power and understanding, at the same time will lead us to discover the essence and the path of Aikido.
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