Although it is important to study and train for skill in techniques, for the man who wishes to truly accomplish the way of budo, it is important to makehis whole life in training and therefore not aiming for skill and strength alone, but also for spiritual attainment.
Interpretation
True mastery in budo requires not just physical skill but also spiritual growth and a lifestyle dedicated to training.
Mas Oyama emphasizes that true accomplishment in the way of budo transcends physical techniques and strength. Instead, it entails a holistic approach to training that integrates one's entire life with the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment, indicating that the journey is as important as the destination.
In practice
In a martial arts class discussing the deeper meaning of practice.
Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical exercise and half spiritual. The karateist who has given the necessary years of exercise and meditation is a tranquil person. He is unafraid. He can even be calm in a burning building.
Karate is Budo and if Budo is removed from Karate it is nothing more than sport karate, show karate, or even fashion karate-the idea of training merely to be fashionable.
Sice Karate exists for cultivating the spirit and training the body, it must be a moral way surpassing mere techniques.
One becomes a beginner after 1000 days of training. One becomes a master after 10,000 days of practice.
The path of Martial Arts begins and ends with courtesy. So be genuinely polite on every occasion.
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations
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