Taekwondo is a way of expressing the instinctive awareness of human survival through powerful physical movements. Moreover, it requires people to materialize their spiritual desires, making it a noble competitive sport. All movements in taekwondo are based on one's defensive instincts and gradually transform into a subjective belief, evolving from passive defensive actions to active offensive forms, and finally reaching a stage of absolute automation.
In taekwondo, practitioners must first overcome not their opponents, but themselves. This is because personalities vary between boldness and timidity, and temperaments differ between diligence and laziness. Regardless of these differences, trainees must overcome the pain, fatigue, and even injuries that come with training. Only with perseverance and patience can one continuously conquer personal weaknesses and reach new heights. In competition with opponents, the tactics of attack and defense in taekwondo, the heaviness or lightness of force applied, and the active or passive changes in form all embody the contradiction and unity of opposites.
In addressing these rapidly changing competitive contradictions, experience is certainly important, but rational thinking and quick reactions can better turn passivity into activity. This is also the philosophy emphasized in taekwondo, which aims to achieve a flawless state of mind—having self-awareness yet forgetting the self, ultimately reaching a state of no-self.
Only when people have healthy bodies and engage in meaningful activities that interest them can their work efficiency be at its highest, and their desires the strongest. Conversely, for someone physically weak, it is difficult to achieve high work efficiency, and their desires cannot be generated. Desire is a mental factor that influences one's emotions before reason and action. It is also related to one's sense of moral right and wrong, as its role is not only to decide how much effort should be invested in completing a task but also to first judge whether something should be done.
Practicing taekwondo can influence all organs through full-body exercise, enhance one's energy, stimulate the brain, promote its powerful development, and invigorate the spirit. Only then will we see not just a person with well-developed limbs and a strong physique but also someone full of vitality and rich in creative spirit.
With the development of human civilization, people no longer consider mere survival as satisfactory but continuously pursue more, stronger, and broader needs, most of which are spiritual. To achieve this goal, people need to treat perception and rationality as an integrated part of an activity. Taekwondo training aligns with this requirement and is therefore one of the most effective ways to enhance energy and cultivate psychological qualities. Additionally, taekwondo emphasizes nurturing a unique, simple mindset during training, which is precisely dependent on the essence of spirit...