RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY
Karate direct meaning is empty hand.
Father of modern Karate "Master Funakoshi Gichin" wrote
following stuff in his book
"KARATE-DO My Way of Life".
----For one thing, it symbolizes the obvious fact that this art of self-defense makes
use of no weapons, only bare feet and empty hands. Further, student of Karate-do
aim not only toward perfecting their chosen art but also toward emptying heart and
mind of all earthly desire and vanity. Reading Buddhist scriptures, we come across
such statement as "Shiki-soku-ze-ku" and "Ku-soku-ze-shiki", which literally mean,
"matter is void" and "all is vanity".---
And I say.
Karate-Do is the way of life. I try to be better person by help of karate.
Karate is not only inside of dojo but it appear for everything. Karate for everything
and everything for Karate. Karate will connect to one's deep inside of soul.
It dose not matter who you are. You may be student, business man, police man,
man, woman, young, old, healthy, handicapped...etc.
Karate will appear one's everyday life..... Eat, sleep, sit, walk, job, friendship, love,
argument, angry, happiness, sadness...etc. It could work for your movement, endurance,
respectation, controlling your emotion, breathing...etc.
And all those life will came back to your karate.
Once you learn the Karate, Karate will always be with you.
Let Karate always be with you !!
One day I run for practice. My running course have city street, bike root side of river and lake.
At lake I can see the mountain far away. I see many kind of birds, and sometimes fish jumping.
I do kata at this place. I feel the sun, moon, star, winds, cloud, water, tree, mountain, birds, fish, tree, etc..
I see the nature around me and I do kata with them, They do Kata with me.
Today I am a better person than I was yesterday.
Tomorrow I will be a better person than I am today.
"Today I am a wiser man than I was yesterday. I am a human being, and a human
being is a vulnerable creature, who cannot possibly be perfect. After he dies, he returns
to the elements---to earth, to water, to fire, to wind, to air. Matter is void. All is vanity.
We are like blades of grass or trees of the forest, creations of the universe, of the spirit
of the univrtse, and the spirit of the universe has neither life nor death.
Vanity is the only obstacle to life."
KanKyakuKa
- Watch Your Step -
For further study let me put most famous budddhist stractur
HANNYA HARAMITTA SHINKYO (prajna-paramita-hrdayam) (perfect wisdom heart sutra)
perfect wisdom heart sutra (hannya haramitta sinkyo)
Avalokateshvara bodhisattva deep perfect wisdom action perform luminously
saw five bundles them own nature empty
Mr. Sariputra
form emptiness evidently form form not different
emptiness emptiness not different form
this form that emptiness this emptiness that form
like this feeling thought choice consiousness
Mr. Sariputra
all dharmas emptiness
mark not born not pure not increase not decrease ?
therefore Sariputra in the middle of emptiness
no form no feeling no thought no choice no consciousness
no eye ear no nose tongue body mind no form sound smell taste touch dharmas
no eye-area up to no mind-consciousness area
no clarity no clarity no clarity exhaustion no clarity exhaustion
up to old age no old age exhaustion no suffering end of suffering path
no knowledge no ownership no witnessing no thing to own
therefore bodhisattva perfect wisdom dwells
in dwell thought no obstacle clarity exhaustion not clairty exhaustion
up to old age no old age exhaustion no suffering end of suffering path
no knowledge no property no witnessing no thing to own
therefore bodhisattva perfect wisdom dwells
in dwell thought no obstacle thought no obstacle
no existence fear fright inverse reverse ? separate
perfectly stands nirvana three worlds thing experiences
all buddhas perfect wisdom dwell
unexcelled ultimate perfect insight together ? buddhas
therefore should know ?
perfect wisdom great charm great clear charm
unexcelled charm unequalled equal charm
all suffering stop terminate genuine real not vain
perfect wisdom declaired charm saying
GATE GATE PARAGATE PARASAMGATE BODHI SVAHA
(gone gone totally gone totally completely gone enlightened so be it)
LIST OF JAPANESE CULTURAL AND NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Jan 01 - GanTan (New Year)
Jan 15 - Seijin No Hi (Coming of Age)
Feb 03 - Setsubun No Hi (Beginning of spring)
Feb 11 - Kenkoku Kinen Bi (National Foundation Day)
Mar 03 - HinaMatsuri (Doll's Festival)
Mar (20) - Shunbun No Hi (Spring Eqinox Day)
May 05 - Kodomo No Hi (Children's Day)
May 3rd Sun - Haha No Hi (Mather's Day)
jun 3rd Sun - ChiChi No Hi (Father's Day)
Jul 07 - Tanabata (Star Festival)
Aug 13-(16) {Jul 13-(16)} - Obon
Sep 15 - Keirou No Hi (Respect for the Aged Day)
Sep (23) - Shubun No Hi (Autum Equinox Day)
Oct 10 - Taiku No Hi (Health and Sports Day)
Nov 03 - Bunka No Hi (Culture Day)
Nov 15 - Shichigosan (753)
Nov 23 - Kinroukansya No Hi (Labour Thanksgiving Day)
Dec 23 - tennouTanjoubi (Emperor's Birthday)
THE MEANIMG OF OBON
Obon originally started in the spirit of profound
religious feeling of love, respect, and gratitude toward
the Buddha and to the departed loved ones who have
either directly or indirectly bestowed their guidance
upon our growth as an individual. It is a time of
appreciation for all they have done and have meant to
us. Thus Obon is essentially a memorial service
honoring the memory of the deceased; however, that
is as far as it goes in coinciding with other memorial
services.
Instead of being a solemn occasion, a festive mood
pervades the entire gathering. Although the sense of
loss of our loved ones is strong in our hearts, our faith
in Amida Buddha's Wisdom and Compassion is even
greater, and the prevailing theme is the joy in the
salvation from suffering, offered by having faith in
Amida Buddha.
ORIGIN OF BON ODORI (OBON DANCING)
Obon dancing is based upon a story, well-known to
Buddhists, of Moggallana, one of the Buddha's chief
disciples, who along with other disciples and
followers, began to dance with joy when he realized
that due to the Buddha's advice and compassion, his
mother had been freed from the pains and sufferings
of hell. This, combined with the traditional Japanese
v9illage dancing, has resulted in the current-day Obon
dancing in Japan, and thus transplanted here in the
United States, undergoing further transformation, to
what it is today.
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