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Taekwondo Bible Vol.1 Preface to the English ver. Introduction
Part. I
1. Oneness and ... 2. There is Do ... 3. The World, ... 4. Picturing ... 5. There is ... 6. The Principles ...
Part. II
7. In Taekwondo ... 8. Facing the ... 9. Erasing ... 10. Thinking ... 11. Doing TKD 12. Not Losing ... 13. Three ...
Part. III
14. Taekwondo's ... 15. Distinction ... 16. Doing Both ... 17. Questioning ... 18. Looking Out ... 19. Endless ... 20. Finding ... 21. Begining ... 22. Keeping ...
Part. IV
23. Moving ... 24. Controling ... 25. Attacking ... 26. Leading ... 27. Surpassing ... 28. Attacking ... 29. Capturing ...
Part. V
30. Having ... 31. Knowing ... 32. Filling Mind ... 33. Taekwondo ... 34. Hitting ... 35. Attacking ... 36. Making ... 37. Avoiding ... 38. Offense and ... 39. Winning with ...
Part. VI
40. Offense and ... 41. Having Softness ... 42. There Be ... 43. Controling ... 44. Being Able ... 45. Harmony of ... 46. Beautifulness ... 47. Able to Stab ...
Part. VII
48. Seeing Motion ... 49. Sparring with ... 50. Free in Strict ... 51. Having Poomsae ... 52. Perfection ... 53. Having Yourself ... 54. There being ... 55. Getting Everything ...
Part. VIII
56. Completing ... 57. Taekwondo Be ... 58. A Piece of String ... 59. Seeing New ... 60. Everything in ... 61. Begining Training ... 62. Seeing the World ... 63. Truth of TKD ... 64. Oneness and ...
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Part V. ATTACK AND DEFENCE
Chapter 33
“What mind does Taekwondo require?”
“An attacking motion demands an attacking mind while a defending motion demands a defending mind. In essence, a mind to subdue your opponent.”
Taekwondo is composed of attacks and defenses. Attack or defense is the delivering of minds between you and your opponent. Hands, feet, bodies and weapons mediate this interaction. Nothing can be Taekwondo without attacks and defenses, and Taekwondo ceases immediately to be such without the delivering of minds.
What then is the delivering of minds as regards attack or defense in Taekwondo? Attack in Taekwondo is nothing but the delivering of a mind to destroy your opponent’s intentions while defense in Taekwondo is the delivering of your mind to protect your own intentions. Neither is fundamentally different from the other. Further, attack means making the opponent opposed to the world in the delivering of minds while defense is harmonizing oneself with the world. Again, neither is fundamentally contradictory to the other.
