Philosophy: Spirit

The Meaning of Tae Kwon Do Spirit

Spirit and mind are two words often confused in usage because of their similarity. However, spirit refers to the immaterial intelligence which systematically establishes human thinking on the basis of value. Therefore Tae Kwon Do spirit means the Tae Kwon Do man's systematic thought process in regarding values established through Tae Kwon Do training.

When one reaches an improved ability to perceive the relative merit of things and act effectively and decisively as a result of training, then it can be said that Tae Kwon Do spirit has been, to some extent established, and embodied. Not until a behavioral and moral philosophy have been established as a consequence of internal assimilation of the three dimensions of Tae Kwon Do ideology, i.e., technical, artistic, and philosophical, can it be said that a comprehensive Tae Kwon Do spirit has been established.

Technique and Spirit

Technique is the starting point as well as the ultimate goal of Tae Kwon Do. all the intrinsic values of Tae Kwon Do arise from technique and exit at any stage of development within and because of technique.

Tae Kwon Do spirit therefore, starts with technique, develops itself within technique and arrives at perfection through technique. As one trains in a series of techniques which develop progressively from basic movements, p'umsae and kyorugi to higher levels, spirits is likewise developed progressively and in concrete stages.

The determinant factor in Tae Kwon Do training is called the reactive motion. Man, existing in a certain environment, is influenced by that environment and in turn, acts against the environment. The medium through which each influence the other is the reactive motion. Practice of Tae Kwon Do goes from reactive training in a primary field of environment in which an opponent is initially encountered, through a broader field in which the opponent is engaged, to the final field in which an absolute and infinite awareness of the environment is attained by transcending the opponent's awareness of the environment.

If that awareness can be reached, no gap would exist between the state of an individual's internal consciousness and that of the external environment, and it would become possible for the individual to control and adjust the internal and external field subjectively.

This type of development of the spirit is accomplished by pure immersion of spirit into a technique and through the experiences and awakening within that technique. During fierce Kyorugi of other confrontations, one's composure is not lost, the self and the opponent are both deeply and calmly viewed within the mind, action is neither feared nor avoided, all external concerns about result of outcome are discarded.

This is the specific description of the above mentioned ultimate stage of spirit.

Putting Tae Kwon Do Spirit into Practice

Tae Kwon Do spirit refers to the mental frame of the ideal human being into which Tae Kwon Do training seeks to develop. It is a mental image of the ideal Tae Kwon Doist which any trainee carries.

When the three dimensions of Tae Kwon Do, i.e., technique, art and philosophy are integrated holistically to form another dimension of human personality, it is seen as the beginning of actualizing Tae Kwon Do spirit.

Ultimately then, Tae Kwon Do in the form of education, sport, or humane personification (or "to") seeks a practical philosophy based on a martial morality which gives man a way to think and act with propriety recognized as an intrepid, altruistic human being.

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