Interview with Koichi Tohei

Interview with Koichi Tohei (2): Mind-Body Unification (Shin Shin Toitsu) and Ueshiba Sensei

by Stanley Pranin

Aikido Journal #109 (Fall/Winter 1996)

He also used to say fantastic things like, “The gods became like smoke and entered my body,” and “In all the world, past and present, even among saints and wise men, there has never been anyone who could understand what I say, and even I myself, though I am saying it, do not understand.” Now how in the world were we supposed to make anything of talk like that!?
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I never paid as much attention to what Sensei said as to what he did. You could ask him all the questions you wanted and never understand his answers. He would just show you and say something to the effect of “It’s done like this.”

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