9
October
2008
AIKIDO
Apa manfaat berlatih aikido?
1. Anda, baik perempuan maupun laki-laki, tua maupun muda, mampu menanggulangi ancaman fisik, dengan cara yang RILEX tanpa mengandalkan kekuatan otot.
2.Mental Anda terlatih menjadi rilex dalam menghadapi tantangan kehidupan sehari-hari. Dengan pikiran dan badan rilex, Anda lebih kreatif, maka Anda lebih mudah mengatasi masalah, sehingga Anda lebih mudah mencapai SUKSES
3.Di Dojo Pelangi Anda belajar MEDITASI, lalu menerapkan meditasi dalam latihan aikido. Dengan latihan aikido maka Anda dapat berada dalam keadaan meditatif, walaupun Anda menghadapi tekanan, baik di dalam dojo maupun dalam lapangan pekerjaan..
4.Di Dojo Pelangi Anda belajar menerima apa adanya semua yang Anda hadapi. Baik yang menyenangkan maupun yang tidak. Non resistance. Tetapi Anda tidak pasif. Menerima dulu, baru berbuat sesuatu untuk menanggulangi tantangan yang Anda hadapi, dengan ketegasan dan kelembutan, dengan kasih sayang.
5. Inti Aikido adalah KASIH SAYANG
Dojo Pelangi
www.suhirman-djirman.com 0817 149 566
Jl. Bina Marga 105, Baranang Siang Bogor. Samping ujung Tol Jagorawi
Pelatih Utama: Suhirman M.Sc, Ph.D.
Penulis buku: MANFAAT AIKIDO BAGI PEMBINAAN SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP, Gramedia
Posted: Aikido, Leadership, Meditation, creativity
3
June
2008
One night, The Painter kept waking up from his sleep. His mind and body was fibrating so highly that his happiness affected his sleep. That condition was similar to his experience in his adolecent period when he heard that the next day he would travel with his parents to another city. Going by train was somethiing new and special.
He got something new and special when he was doing his painting, when he was practicing the techniques of broken colour, under paninting, and dry brush. Mastering those techniques made him have a greater freadom.
With his greater freedom, he was able to break through his mental barrier which had been hindering him to invent a new style of painting, which held him from innovation. The theories of perspective, colour, anatomy, are useful for a painter. Yet, it can be a barrier to make a break through. Mental break through, invention, new experience, success: those were so important for The Painter, and those were the sources of his happiness.
Posted: Painting, creativity, sp
28
May
2008
When The Painter stopped painting for two days and set back to study the painting basic tachniques, he found sentences about how important for a painter to have a self critic. The sentences said: “It is an old axiom in painting that it requires two people to paint a picture: a painter to do the painting and another (large) person to knock him senseless before he ruins it. There is more truth than humor in this. In practice, an artist is both of these people, he must be his own ruthless critic.”
For a few minutes he agreed with that statement which was stated by his “teacher”. But his relaxed mind was aware that those sentences contains negative sense. The Painter is aware of the effect of words onto his mind, his cells, and his life.
The Painter agreed of the importance of critic and self critic to produce good paintings. However, instead of a large and ruthless person who is ready to knock him senseless, his critic is a wise mother who allows him to walk alone and dare to make mistakes. Only by daring to make mistakes, to stumble, to fall down, human beings are able to walk. Only by daring to make mistakes The Painter is able to produce better and more creative paintings.
Posted: Leadership, Painting, creativity, spirituality
22
May
2008
In order to become a painter, he needs to be a learner. Yet he does not consider learning as a duty. Learning is an enjoyment.
He has just finished a painting of a fisherman’s daughter on the beach, carrying her baby brother. He feels a deep satisfaction in his heart, because the painting is the result of a long journey of learning. He has learnt, indirectly, from other painters, from his wife, daughters, friends, and from nature, animals, see, mountains, clouds, bacteria, fungi. He not only had seen or known his object, Surya, the fisherman’s daughter, but he had talked to her, intensely, gave her a little present, respected her, and admire her, but he had also listened and and learned a piece of life from the eleven years old girl. A piece of life which enriches his own life.
It is the energy of those experiences, those feelings and respects, that produces the painting that makes him and his painting disolve into each other, to become a unity.
Posted: Meditation, Painting, creativity, spiritual
20
May
2008
The Painter awares that he needs to get off his past coccoon, which is the source of his logical awareness. He needs to live in freedom, where he can choose either logical or intuitive awareness according to his needs.
Living with freedom is not an easy life. Van Gogh is a good example of how difficult it was to live in freedom. Although nowadays people will buy his pantings for million of dollars each, they used to reject them during van Gogh’s life. People need time to understand and appreciate new ideas.
Critisism can be a blow for crative painter. Critics, as members of a society, mostly are left behind creative painters. However, people trust and follow the critics, since they believe that the critics know everything about paintings, which is not always the case.
Living in freedom, yes. The painter has chosen a life of freedom which means a life of challenges. He has no choice. He has to answer the challenges and goes onward. He has to follow his own path. And the Universe is facilitating him.
Posted: Painting, creativity
