One's self is his mind and his body. When empting and filling your body, you should relax it completely, erasing all the unnecessary force yet filling it with the living vitality. And when empting and filling your mind, you should delete all kinds of idle thoughts and attached passions yet fill it only with self-convictions that you can surpass the opponent. You must never fear anything in any case. No matter whether you've reached a life or a death, it is nothing more than what it is, and the fear is required for neither. If you were not killed even when you failed in kyorugi you would be disgraceful and ashamed, but the fear will not be helpful either. This excrescent fear keeps your mind from being fully emptied nor fully filled, thus it is the fear that breaks the calmness of your mind. This fear is of yourself relfected on the opponent's being. To erase this fear completely is to make TAEKWONDO perfect.

Only when you succeded in the complete erasion of your fear, it is possible to do Taekwondo in the complete union of you and the world. Therefore, Taekwondo man never fear nor worry anything, yet just deliberate, plan, overcome and get harmonized with it. There is a prevailed fault of the not-fearing mind. It is the confusion between the conviction that you can surpass the opponent and th obsession that you want to, so, you must surpass the opponent. A conviction differs from an obsession. An obsession oppresses your mind, because it is merely a camouflaged fear, while a conviction just makes your mind comfortable and free with no restriction. It is the very emptied fullness.

From what can you get the conviction that you can get control over the opponent when you face him? You can get it through the confirmation and the assurance that you are stronger than him. The, what is the basis of this confirmation and the assurance? It is only your clear knowing that your whole is stronger than the opponent's whole even though he might be more aggressive than you, or his skill might excel yours, or his power might be superior to yours. This strongness is the never-broken sword which can be made up through the self-strengthening in hardnesses and difficulties. Only the self-strengthening makes it no matter whether it may be the strongness of mind or of body. That your whole is strong can be obtained when your whole life changes through transcendental disciplines to the sincerity and the positivity.

The true self-confidence is also obtained when you find infinite possibilities after continuous self-mastering. The courage, which comes without this confidence and conviction from trainings and exercises, can not be true. One's right mental attitude cannot be without the exact observation of what he is like, and this fact shows you an actual aspect of Taekwondo man's true courage. It is the accordance of reality and oughtness, the name of which is called "Sincerity". If your mind, emptied with courage, were not filled with sincerity, you can get nothing even though you lose nothing. A tiger also does its best even when it pursues a mere rabbit. A courage, when it doesn't come from the confidence based on sincere training, is nothing but a self-conceit, which may lead all the people to misfortunes.

The strong Taekwondo man thinks in right ways, acts morally and trains himself of Taekwondo sincerely to overcome his own limits, always in his life. And he harmonizes all of them. Accordingly, when he is opposed to his opponent the opponent gets weaker because he loses the harmony in himself, and this is also the reason why he is opposed to a Taekwondo man. The enemy of Taekwondo is always not the opponent but only his vice. The momentary yet actual excellence of an opponent, who is weak because he is vicious, is to be surpassed by a Taekwondo man when he goes beyond his own limits. This is also a way how you control your life according to <Do>. The world where the just can not win is in vain. Isn't it an irony that the basis of the strongly assured confidence arises from the knowledge that the world is empty.