Only man's mind is benevolent, which the nature never cares.
Thus also, it is called "Nature".

The roughness of a mountain is suffering itself while there is the peace of those who does not climb the mountain just closely beside and under it. There is the comfortables of people who rest next to the severe thrust of those who run over and over again under the heating sunshine. In the same manner, you can find comfortable temptation always next to painfulness of transcendental discipline of Taekwondo man. Why does a Taekwondo man continue such painful struggle for the transcendental discipline? For peacefulness is another figure of the way to death. The life is always the process of getting farther away from the deaths here and there, and so, it is continuous change and activity. The strain accompanying the change is suffering. The life is struggling itself.

Taekwondo itself has its root already in the spot between life and death. It is the net tightening the whole life more and more from outside it. The net has no inside and outside. Taekwondo man goes out of the net over and over again to begin again from new inside of the net. Taekwondo involves the process of escape from the boundary between life and death toward the life, and further more implies the transcendence over the entire relation together. Taekwondo man pursues the life itself transcending it. This is the transcendence to inside of life.

Why is it that the net tightening the life has no inside and outside? Why does the Taekwondo man fight at the boundary between life and death? It is because the world having Taekwondo in it is opposed to Taekwondo at once. Conversely, man lives in the world fighting with the world. In the opposition to myself I am the other and the other is I. Taekwondo man is in the world, yet having his own life, also in the fight with the world. There are infinitely many manners of what kind of fight it can be and of how Taekwondo and the world can be involved with each other. Life is the fight that man cannot avoid as long as he lives, so the man doing Taekwondo plunges himself into the end of his limitation through the transcendence to inside of life. He experiences there the realm where Taekwondo is and accepts the life with pleasure. Whenever a Taekwondo man breaks over this limitation every time he enlarges his existence realm step by step.

The process of Taekwondo training is the compressed process of the life. What makes you live in spite of all kinds of pains? It is only your will to live. And it is also only your own will that enables you to continue the training over your limit. To overcome yourself is to take one step more forward only with pleasure in infernal solitude, to put another objective several steps farther away in front of yourself who stands harder than climbing a precipitous cliff at the end of another yourself, and to do it for yourself. The Taekwondo man who continues his training like asceticism can be rather pleasant only because it is his own choice.

Taekwondo man feels more than knows that pleasure and pain are like both sides of a thing. The suffering and pleasure are put as oneness in the process of surmounting his limitation. This is the emotional meaning Taekwondo implies. Every most important truth is common and those who have never experienced pains cannot know what is the true pleasure while only those who have suffered severe defeat can enjoy true pleasures of the victory. Though I find walls I have to break everywhere I cannot but go ahead. This is the strain which is the essence of like. It is always painful to go over my limit, but I have to go on overcoming. This is the figure of life dwelling is Taekwondo. When you realize it in right way it is pleasant. Then, you will see everything is pleasant in the world.