This is the most complex word. KI is the individual "Energy", the vitality and health the being depends on. The ideogram's inferior part, made up of a vertical stroke crossed by several horizontal lines, represents the Infinite; the central part, looking like a 7, means something that hides, covers. The three above lines stand for "not saying". On the whole the sign tries to explain the meaning of the energy going beyond words.

DO represents the way to follow, the self-realization path, the expression of the individual work of spiritual search and its application leading to self-consciousness. Divided in a vertical way, the ideogram DO, represents, on the right the bust of a man and on the left a path where the end cannot be seen.

In the end we can say that aikido is a way to achieve the harmony of man's vital energies.

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