Practice the Way of the Empty Hand to become as an empty vessel. This is so that you may take natural courses of action, like water, that you may find the path of least resistance. This is in order to better understand and utilize your nature, as it relates to the universe, and universal truth.
Practice the Way of Peace and Harmony in every way possible. Strength of mind, body, and soul is a tool for peace and harmony. Peace and harmony give strength meaning.
Life, like the ocean, is an ebb and tide, a give and take. Learn to subside and crash upon the shores of life. Study, recover, train, become...Then give it all back. This all relates to not just combat, but life itself.
Like the ecosystem, people all depend on each other. Do not hesitate to plant a good seed. Though 'an eye for an eye' makes the world blind, a favor for a favor makes the world a garden.
In your search for peace, harmony, and truth, strip away the unessential. Make leaps of faith; give it all your best effort. Do not ever hesitate, or stop learning. Reach to the bottom of the lake of your soul. I wish you the best, and God bless you.
The above was excerpted from my free guide to karate, available as a free pdf ebook download - Understanding Karate-Do. I am the chief instructor at Johnston Karate.
"Understanding Karate" is also available as a professionally bound and printed trade paperback book, as well as a Kindle e-book over at our Understanding Karate-do store on Amazon.com. If you are a book store or school owner and would like to sell any of our books, visit the above page and scroll down to the "Bulk pricing" section.
Practice the Way of Peace and Harmony in every way possible. Strength of mind, body, and soul is a tool for peace and harmony. Peace and harmony give strength meaning.
Life, like the ocean, is an ebb and tide, a give and take. Learn to subside and crash upon the shores of life. Study, recover, train, become...Then give it all back. This all relates to not just combat, but life itself.
Like the ecosystem, people all depend on each other. Do not hesitate to plant a good seed. Though 'an eye for an eye' makes the world blind, a favor for a favor makes the world a garden.
In your search for peace, harmony, and truth, strip away the unessential. Make leaps of faith; give it all your best effort. Do not ever hesitate, or stop learning. Reach to the bottom of the lake of your soul. I wish you the best, and God bless you.
The above was excerpted from my free guide to karate, available as a free pdf ebook download - Understanding Karate-Do. I am the chief instructor at Johnston Karate.
"Understanding Karate" is also available as a professionally bound and printed trade paperback book, as well as a Kindle e-book over at our Understanding Karate-do store on Amazon.com. If you are a book store or school owner and would like to sell any of our books, visit the above page and scroll down to the "Bulk pricing" section.
