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Taekwondo Bible, Vol.1  
<<Division 3. Samjae>>


  Chapter 18.
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Looking Out For Everything With Piousness   
 
 

"I think there are many mean people in the world."

"Don't think they are mean, but watch out for yourself."


 

This Taekwondo man, who knows what is right and what is wrong, becomes ethical naturally and the ethical behavior is to discern what is right and what is wrong, and to choose what is right and abandon what is wrong. The attitude of Taekwondo man whose life is ethical is just the piousness itself, and piousness is the careful mind to keep everything in its own proper position, so that nothing gets out of its way. It is same with the way of Haneul(Heaven) in activity of body. The principles of using body is same as that of using mind.

What you should look out for at first, looking out for everything with piousness, is your self. To look out for yourself is to posit everything of yourself in its own proper place for your impartiality controlling desire with much care of every action for your well-ordered thought, and in addition to that, you must also look out lest your overtemperateness should break your good relationship to friends. In this manner, you should keep your balance between temperateness and intemperateness attached to nothing in your own way. This is not losing yourself even in the lookout for yourself.

The second that you have to look out for is the relationship between you and others. To look out for your relationship is to have all the bad relationships opposed to one another along the way of Earth on the lookout for bad result getting harmonized in that whole to keep good in behavior, and in addition to that, you must also look out lest man's prosperity should have troubles in reconciliation to the nature. In this manner, you can keep your balance in harmony between everyone's development and the constancy to preserve good customs in society so that everyone respects his ancestor preserving traditions with advancement in civilization for everyone's sake. This is not losing man even in the lookout for man.

The third you have to look out for is the environment around you. To look out for environment is to avoid everything that may harm yourself in nature choosing to follow only what can be beneficial, and you also have to look out lest your lookout and distinction should be opposed to the whole harmony inclusive of them at the same time. In this manner, you as Taekwondo man do both of erasing and picturing yourself at once, so you are everywhere yet with non-being and you are nowhere yet full of being. Then, wherever you are your position is necessary while whenever you are not that place should be emptied, everything of which be precise with no conflict at all. This is to get your proper position on the lookout for environment and to get the world even in the lookout for the world.

Generally speaking, all of mankind's principles can be summed up in the piousness of lookout for those foregoint three. These principles are same with those of Sages, and Taekwondo man only finds them out in his or others' attitude of lookout. If Taekwondo man is not idle with his piousness on look out for his self, relationships and environment, he can complete all the way the reconciliation of Taekwondo as Mu() and TAEKWONDO as principle of life.

 

 

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