As you know what your motion should be like and you
know what points you should attack and what points you should not, then,
riding the flow of <Heo> and <Sil>, you can succeed
in your attack at the opponent.
What are <Heo> and <Sil>? What
has its appearance that has nothing intended in real is called <Heo>,
while, on the contrary, what is filled with intention to do something
regardless its appearance is called <Sil>. As you know, the
"I" is empty, so there can be no constant substantial subject of pursuit
so that the counter change of <Heo> and <Sil>
in every case continues with no stop relying on its emergent conditions
and what each of your and the opponent's will intends. This change is
boundless so that it can be compared to that of Yin/Yang of <Yeok>
on one hand, while there is no perfect completion at all, on the other
hand. Distinguishing something and intending to do it belong only to
matters of man who has his own will, so <Heo> and <Sil>
are to be discerned with division to a rise or a fall of each. The world,
however, cares nothing without what it distinguishes for itself so that
<Heo> and <Sil> are mixed in infinite change,
thus there is neither what is not <Heo> nor what is not
<Sil>. Therefore, the existence of each is also boundless.
It is because Taekwondo man wants to imitate this virtue of the world
that he erases himself up to delete every distinction on what he desires
to do.
Why is it difficult to get control over the opponent
with your successful attack at him without riding the change and the
flow of <Heo> and <Sil>? It is due to that the
opponent whom you face in Taekwondo is not a mere thing like a stone
or a wood but a living and moving man, who has what he intends with
what he avoids. To live is to adapt yourself. The infinite capacity
of adaptation is the substance of life. Since the opponent adapts himself
to the change pursuing what he wants you can get easy control over him
only when you restrict his adaptation along the flow of <Heo>
and <Sil>, through which you can catch him with more ease.
This is the difference between catching a fish swimming in water and
catching a stone put under water.
How to ride the flow of <HeoSil>? Only
after you know how it can be, then you can know how to ride it. Emptyness
of what you intend to do is <Heo> while its fullness <Sil>.
On the other hand, what is to be filled is <Heo> while what
is to be emptied <Sil>. Therefore, <Sil> is followed
by <Heo> while <Heol> is by <Sil>.
And <Heo> contains <Sil> while <Sil>
contains <Heo>. Each of them all cannot be distinguished
ultimately. So, you can have <Heo> as <Sil>
and <Sil> as <Heo>, and it is most changeful
that each of both follows including the other, which makes the flow
of <HeoSil>.
As you know all of them you can ride its flow in three
ways. To have your tide and balance empty saving your distance with
a faint motion of no fullness on one hand, and have yourself prepared
for the next motion in your own rhythm i.e. form filled motions hidden
by faint motions on the other hand, which is the first. The second is
that you should tempt the opponent into your full blind point doing
both of erasing and picturing yourself to have him opposed to the world,
which is to put a full bait in an empty trap. The third is that you
have your empty self opposed to him managing yourself with your full
self at the same time, to have <Heo> as <Sil>
and <Sil> as <Heo> so that you catch the difference
between his <Heo> and <Sil> with the help of
the sameness of your <Heo> and <Sil>.
These three ways to control the opponent riding the
flow of <HeoSil> are both same and different, and you
can know that they are same as you understand TAEKWONDO. If you master
how to control <HeoSil> in this manner you will be familiar
with the Taekwondo distance. For <Sil> is owing to what
you want to do, which, when emptied, makes <Heo>, so that
you can have the distance close to the opponent with <Sil>
and far from him with <Heo> at once. Therefore, the distance
between two Taekwondo men always changes continuously even when they
stay standing on their spots like posts.
Your ideal Taekwondo's motion, which rides the flow
of <HeoSil>, always avoids the opponent's <Sil>
stabbing his <Heo>, and turns your <Heo> to <Sil>
along the continuous change. You can find <Heo> of what
he thinks with balances of simplicity and complexity. You should find
out <Heo> of his motion with harmony of the slow and fast.
All of these , when coupled with one another, make the 'preceding attack'
with the 'counter attack', and generate the 'faint motion' with the
'filled motion'.
It is called "preceding attack" to precede the opponent's
filled preparation so as to stab its <Heo> in a fast tide.
The preceding attack should precede three; it should precede his motion,
it should precede his waiting and it should precede his expectation.
It is called "counter attack" to have yourself harmonized in his attack
of big change in <HeoSil> so as to stab his empty point
with what you are full of. The counter attack also should catch three;
it should catch the crevice of his motion, it should catch what he failed
thinking of in his preparation and it should catch what is not firm
in his tide.
There is a motion, of which the figure is full, yet
of which the substance is empty, and thus which is not an attack even
if it looks like an attack and which is not a defense even if it looks
like a defense. We call it "a faint motion". To the contrary, there
is also a motion, which is a sharp attack at his core as an attack,
and which also can be a defense good enough for protection of yourself
as a defense, regardless its appearance. We call it "a filled motion".
Every motion, even if it might be a faint motion, can turn to a filled
motion with no confusion whenever needed, while, on the contrary, every
filled motion also can be emptied whenever needed, when there is no
distinguishing a faint motion from a filled motion. This is doing both
of <Heo> and <Sil> in a motion.
When you stab a <Heo> in his motion you
can precede the motion while when you precede his expectation you can
stab the <Heo> of his thinking. As there is no difference
between preceding his preparation and stabbing his empty part with your
fullness there is no difference between a preceding attack and a counter
attack either in that manner above.o
The principle that controls every change of
<HeoSil> can be summed up in a clause; to stab your <Heo>
for yourself in order rather to get control over the opponent. The best
way to deceive him is to deceive yourself and if you want to change
the world you should change yourself at first. In this way, you can
get control over him with no mistake since you are rather empty scattered
in truth as you know your own <Heo> allowing it, which is
again a perfect <Sil>. Even if each of and looks
different to those who make blind distinctions, each is not separated
ultimately from the other, and its fundamental essence is the <Heo>
in no willing of the world. But in the willing of man the fundamental
essence is <Sil>. Therefore, you can get useful <Heo>
only after you have gotten <Sil> through continuous training.
These are on same principle as of that you can go over distinctions
only after you have understood the distinction.