I clench my fist
Not to fell a firmly rooted tree,
Nor to catch a fish
Rushing into calm water,
Nor to spout flame from my soaring breast,
Nor to put on wings that
I might fly to lofty areas But
that I may enter
From the small, quiet place
Inside my tightly clenched, <1>
Softly trembling fist
Into the way towards a boundless life
Opening endlessly before my eyes. <4>
1.
Taekwondo is a way, a way of life. <5>
All that was separated again can meet.
Through this everything is seen
To become one. <2>
I can find my real self and so
Toward perfection turn. <10>
Mind and body when harmonized make the human being
whole. <31>
Thought and action when
harmonized free each from the other. <9>
Value and fact when harmonized make meaning.
<63>
Motion and stay when harmonized lead to tranquillity.
<48>
Yielding and stoutness when harmonized create power.
<41>
Strength and weakness when harmonized brings about
tenderness. <45>
Drawing and erasing when harmonized paints a
picture without form. <6>
Eternity and an instant when harmonized produces
a possibility. <22>
Myself and another when harmonized makes we.
<8>
Air and ground when harmonized becomes the earth.
<62>
Living and dying when harmonized breathes as a life.
<4>
Inhaling and exhaling when harmonized is a
cycle of renewal and <14>
Hand and foot when harmonized forms martialism
<11>
but Military and literary when harmonized is art
and this brings philosophy. <11>
When all these are blended they melted into one.
<3>
This one then is perfect and is equal to
nothingness. <1>
When everything finally reaches the peak
<58>
There is no longer a difference between being
or not. <64>
I stand alone in the midst of this emptiness
<55>
Then I and others appeared in a breath and
<15>
My real self can walk the path without hesitation.
<60>
