So far I’ve mentioned and emphasized how important it is for one
to understand that the control of one’s body’s hardness is
maintained through timing of breathing. By mastering this timing, one
could exert the massive potential and powers to defeat opponents.
I’ve outlined my way of karate-do by using tactics, mental conditioning,
and physical fitness and control. In general, we tend to ignore these
concepts and approach karate-do as a negative, extremely rational or strictly
spiritual experience. However, we probably can only explain and understand
the things in these ways because mankind is only aware of a small segment
of the total picture. Even medical science or natural science is limited
in its perception of the total experience. If we only pass on the tradition
to the next generation, karate-do would have been died out generations
ago. The fact is there are many common things therein when ones approached
the core of the things. It is not so hard to imagine that karate-do was
formed for several years ago and that it was approached as it is now,
by many of karate-do practitioners have evolved the art based on their
experiences, knowledge and even their political briefs.
I will conclude this journal by the confession that it is my mission
to contribute to the future of karate-do, not to utterly take what my
former Sensei instructed me for granted, but with diligent study of
the arts of karate-do, learn and pass on what many previous karate-do
practitioners have experienced.
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