An
Aikido master, according to the
teachings, can't be
beaten.
Nor can he be
fought.
Aikido concerns itself with
much more than
martial arts, for those of you who didn't know. But I won't get into
all of Aikido here. The point is that by the time you reach the
status of Master in Aikido, you have not only
learned all that kick-ass fighting and whatnot, you've learned that you are
One with the Universe.
No shit; that's
actually a
requirement.
An Aikido Master (and this may hold true in other Arts, but Aikido's the easiest for me to
talk about) can not be
beaten because he
moves and
lives in Harmony with the
Universe. You and I are
parts of the
Universe; we can't conceivably
go up against it--literally. Not only can't you
BEAT someone who's One With Everything, you CAN'T EVEN FIGHT THEM. Once you've
decided to
fight someone who always works
in concert with the
Whole of Everything, you've
already lost, see? Aikido claims a
literal and
physical interpretation of this concept, by saying that neither you nor I, no matter how much we wanted to or tried, could even
fight against a Master.
Besides ringing decidedly
Zen in the
ears, this whole things reminds me of
Neo from
The Matrix.
It also gives me
strange ideas about what
Enlightenment must be like.