Regarding
Everything with Piety
“I think there are many uncaring people in the world.”
“Rather than considering them uncaring, take care of yourself.”
The
Taekwondo-Een, who comprehends what is right and wrong, becomes ethical
naturally. His ethical behavior lies in discerning what is right and wrong, and
in choosing the right and abandoning the wrong. The attitude of the
Taekwondo-Een whose life is ethical is piety itself, and piety is a careful
mind to keep everything in its own proper position, so that nothing loses its
proper way. It is same with the way of Haneul (Heaven) in the activities of the
body. The principles of using the body are the same as those of using the mind.
Of
the things you should care for with piety the first is yourself. Taking care of
yourself means putting everything of yourself in its own place, controlling
desire and with well-ordered thought taking care of every action. At the same
time, you must also take care lest any excessive moderation strain your relationship
with friends. In this manner, you should maintain a balance between temperance
and intemperance attached to nothing in your own way. This is not losing you
even in the care of yourself.
The
second thing that you need to take care of is your relationships with others.
Taking care of your relationships with others means arranging all the bad
relationships in opposition to one another along the way of Tang (Earth), on
the lookout for bad results harmonizing in that entirety to keep the good in
behavior. In addition, you must also look out lest man’s prosperity should have
trouble reconciling with nature. In this manner, you can maintain a harmonious
balance between everyone’s development and fidelity to the preservation of good
social customs, so that everyone respects his ancestors, preserving traditions
and advancing civilization for the sake of all. This is not losing man even in
the care of man.
The
third thing you must consider with care is your surrounding environment. Taking
care of your environment means avoiding everything in nature that may harm you,
choosing to follow only what can be beneficial. You must also take care lest
your diligence and distinction should at the same time grow opposed to the
harmony of the whole inclusive of them. In this manner, you, as Taekwondo-Een,
must erase and picture yourself at once, so that you are everywhere yet with
your non-being and you are nowhere yet full of your being. Thus you are
everywhere you should be while you are not everywhere you should not be, which
is to be precisely sure with no mistake. This is to attain your proper position
in your surrounding environment and to attain the world even in watching out
for the world.
Generally
speaking, all of mankind’s principles can be summed up in the careful piety of
the aforementioned three. These principles are the same with those of the
Sages, and the Taekwondo-Een only discovers them in his or others’ attitude of
taking care. If the Taekwondo-Een is not idle in his piety in the care of his
self, his relationships and his environment, then he can complete the
reconciliation of Taekwondo as Mu (무[武]) and
TAEKWONDO as a principle of life.
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