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 Chapter 63.

Truth of Taekwondo Be Both Right and Strong

Taekwondo permeates my inside through training and my life through myself. To the contrary, the whole of my daily lives forms me and I also determine the momentary Taekwondo. Taekwondo is both a part and a way of life at once. Therefore, the moment of facing my opponent always lies hidden in my daily life, which is again condensed in a moment. A moment is not separated from the eternity.

Taekwondo and life permeate each other erasing their distinctions like the original existence of everything. In its origine, every thought comes from action and intention to act, and it is composed of words and logic. Words and logic always include names, which unavoidably rely on distinctions over things. Here you can find the limit of word and logic. this distinction breaks the harmony, the perfect harmony of the world and you. If a truth were to include the real figure of things it should overcome those distinctions, so it cannot be said in words. The word is nothing but a sort of tool.

TAEKWONDO plunges into the being itself with no word but as action. And it talks no distinction of this and that. Taekwondo man does not face the world over words but enter it to be overlapped. That is, he meets and touches beings at first hand. Thus, he accepts everything as it is. Therefore, the ultimate truth of Taekwondo can only be felt and experienced while it cannot be said and analyzed completely. The truth of Taekwondo, which is beyond distinction, cannot be explained in words but delivered directly from mind to mind.

In order to destroy the wall between minds accepting everything of yours with impartial mind. Then all of attachments and negations will be emptied together. This is give up everything of yours to get TAEKWONDO. What vice can breat into this? Therefore, it is so impossible for a true vicious man to reach the ulitmate truth of Taekwondo as has been told in most instructive stories. For the vice is an attachment or avarice to something trivial, so a contradiction confused in closed mind. The true should be the strong. Therefore, if there were a ultimate truth it should be both right and strong for man. The truth of Taekwondo is such thing. Taekwondo is by itself such a whole as is life originally.