Furuya Sensei posted this to his Daily Message on March 25, 2002.
Nowadays, I think that many think of Aikido practice as mere “play." This is why I think we do not have the focus and mental direction as we had before. In everything we do, play, work, study or even sleeping, we need to be in the moment, focused and aware. Until we can appreciate this, we will never become the true warrior that we continually dream about.