“TaeKwon-Do is based on the idea that in the complete application and full use of available potential, the body and mind are, through subjection to training, brought to ultimate perfection.
This training increasingly enables the mind to exert a conscious influence over its instruments. The incorporation of the body through TaeKwon-Do in the course of mental development enables inner processes to transcend the exercise. The mental reach of the exercise lies in the potential, via practical means, for bodily, and therefore mental, renewal of a person.
The primary goal of TaeKwon-Do is to build and not to destroy. It helps the student to develop into a balanced person psychologically and physically.
Every imbalance is avoided; the mastery of thought, concentration, endurance, and the overcoming of and resistance to fear and tiredness belong to the training of the body and the mind.
Still, words remain only an approach to the subject; he who wants to know must experience!
Translated from Zen Art of Self-Defense (“Zen-Kunst Der Selbstverteidigung”) written by Grandmaster Kwon, Jae-Hwa.
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