Many martial arts schools around the world advocate the concept of self-improvement and the expected standards of technical skills. When you think about it, ideas, not technical skills, should influence the daily lives of every practitioner.
The martial arts philosophy, or at least the traditional karate philosophy, is called Dojo-Kun. Dojo-Kun is just a five-point ethical guide for training martial arts and everyday life, sometimes referred to as the English "student creed". Traditional karate ethics are often translated as:
·Work hard to pursue the perfection of character
·The way to follow the truth
· Develop a spirit of hard work
·Compliance with etiquette principles
· Prevent the impetuous courage
In many traditional karate schools, these precepts are sung in Japanese and other English schools at the beginning and end of each lesson. In some schools, there was no chanting at all, only the principle was posted on the wall of the dojo, and other schools invented their own "student creed."
I am not here to tell you which way is right or wrong, but what you should do when choosing a martial arts school is to ask yourself whether the core values of the school resonate with your views on life and ethics. After all, by starting your karate journey, you expose yourself and your family to a very emotional adventure. The conflict of moral values is likely to be "Dim Mak" [the touch of death] from the beginning to participate in martial arts.
Dojo-Kun's commandments can provide a very simple template for following a benign path and playing to your potential in everything you do and become a good citizen. It is up to you to decide how this philosophy fits into your own ideals and ethics. Most people find that these five core ethics are that they can be connected on an intimate basis; some people don't pay much attention to the philosophy of martial arts, and like you in your karate class, for different reasons, such as self-defense or Basic health and fitness. The phrase "everyone belongs to himself" is absolutely applicable to this.
In essence, there are many other ways to self-realize and understand the big world around you. Martial arts simply provides a valuable template to begin to understand yourself and others by understanding sports, strength, speed, time, energy, tension, relaxation and harmony. This is the beginning of a long and extremely rewarding journey.
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I wish you good luck and blessings during your journey on karate.
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