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True to this translation, the combination of martial art and spirituality leads to aikido being an individual path of gradual developement, on which the realisation ripens to understand the opponent as partner. What starts as threatening attack is more and more tranformed into a welcomed energy in space, which is blended with one's own movements through the techniques of aikido. To become one with the partner is, according to Ueshiba, the first step to ultimately become one with the whole universe. Gradual developement in aikido means: To practise the techniques with a partner, as budo (way of the warrior). Intensive and regular training leads to suppleness of body and a strengthened trust in ones own abilities. The thus gained confidence in your body can be extended to embrace the partner (attacker). The one person's physical and mental flexibility becomes a unifying motion, which merges both, assailant and defender, into a union. When fixed notions of attack and defence are gradually dissolved, aikido turns into a joyous meeting of energies which come together in play, and then separate again. The understanding of this principle can be transferred to any form of contact or encounter; in this way, aikido can be understood as a universal path. (German text by Stephan Harmanus, translated by Melanie Lindenthal) 
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