There is a Japanese saying, "By the time you wish to be a good son and daughter, your parents are long gone. You cannot put a comforter over your parent’s tombstone." This words seems to me that they apply not only to the relationship between biological parents and their children but also the bond between master and disciple.

It means that we could not make any sense of anything the living master gave, but now we can fairly understand the message of our master as we matured in life long after the master breathed his last. In spite of the direct instruction from my master in old days gone by, it went in one ear and out the other. After the demise of my master, I truly rue the days.

The founder says, "Every human of the world should be siblings and bridged by the chord of Love. All art is done for this harmonization. We Japanese should spread the spirit of Japan to all over the world. Not only saying that we are friends in a small thought, but also we need to help each other as one large family." And he says, "The Goal of the Aikido is to create the globe which makes our world a happy place. "The beauteous figure of the universe is the family created by God." The really great, beautiful world has been already created. As human beings, we should create a truly delightful world on earth. In other words, we have to make our soil in peace and without war. We are engaged in the Aikido for that reason. The Aikido is the law which manifests the track of the universal truth."