The many smiles and sense of accomplishment in learning something is extremely rewarding to realize we are continuing a tradition.
As the Shuharikan, in St. Paul, we are teaching what we learned and sharing what came first from Japan and with these students; will continue the lineage of Aikido into the future.
What was past, becomes present and the present becomes the future. The idea brings to mind part of TS Eliot's Four Quartets poem Burnt Norton
"Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past."
Dave Lowry wrote in Permission Wind: A Martial Artist's Journey in Japan
"The way of the bugeisha culminates only at the conclusion of his life. All else is a journey to ever-receding destinations. There can be no final lesson, no ultimate secret to reveal."
It reminds one that the journey as a student and teacher is never done.
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