Bibliography Index

• Ki-Aikido on Maui: A Training Manual

  Christopher Curtis / 1st edition, Maui Aikido Ki Society (1995)

  Aikido / Technical

  Summary: A beginner's manual for students of Ki Society Aikido, with emphasis on the Maui dojo. Contains biographies of O Sensei, Tohei, and Shinichi Suzuki, training schedules, policies, etiquette, several chapters on meditation, breathing and Ki Society philosophy, testing, weapons, and a glossary.

• Letting Go: Talks on Aikido

  Christopher Curtis / MAKS Publishing (2007)

  Aikido / Anecdotal / Philosophical / Spiritual

  Summary: Most people pursue waking up in the way they go after a new car, or a mate, a college education, or becoming CEO, as if it's the same thing. But this is not the same. Those are temporary goals. There is nothing wrong with getting new cars or becoming CEO, or whatever else pleases you, but don't confuse the two. Achieving those things, we use skills that can be learned, whereas awakening does not result from education, a gathering of knowledge. This is the very highest art form: the art of letting go of 'doing' and dropping into resting in the awareness itself. This 'shift' is the perfect and complete unification of all aspects of life, of truly knowing and experiencing at the same time; suddenly, 'waaa!' It all comes together.