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Take some time to meditate on these words of wisdom
- "Karate Ni Sente Nashi"
- -- There is No First Attack in Karate.
- -- A calligraphy from the Nagamine honbu dojo.
- "Mazu Sono Kokoro Wo Tadase"
- -- First purify your mind.
- -- A calligraphy from the Nagamine honbu dojo.
- Karate begins with courtesy and ends with it. Therefore,
- we must be courteous to seniors, juniors, friends, and
- even foes.
- -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
- Even after many years, kata practice is never finished,
- for there is always something new to be learned about
- executing a movement.
- -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
- Karate-do may be referred to as the conflict within
- yourself, or a life-long marathon which can be won only
- through self-discipline, hard training, and your own
- creative efforts.
- -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
- A karateman must always try to keep his body and mind
- clean and right.
- -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
- The dojo is the place where courage is fostered and
- superior human nature is bred through the ecstacy of
- sweating in hard work. It is the sacred place where the
- human spirit is polished.
- -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
- Karate ultimately produces in the individual a vital
- concentration of energy that expands to heroic proportions
- in times of crisis.
- -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
- Karate-do is definitely a martial way, and its identity
- lies in do or principles. Any martial art without proper
- training of the mind turns into beastly behavior.
- -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
- If he practices three times, I must practice six times.
- -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
- Once when asked for a brief definition of a good Karate
- person, Osensei Shoshin Nagamine replied: Kisshu fushin,
- Oni te hotoke kokoro. A demon's hand, a saint's heart.
- -- Osensei Shoshin Nagamine
- No matter how you may excel in the art of te, and in your
- scholastic endeavors, nothing is more important than your
- behavior and your humanity as observed in daily life.
- -- Teijunsoku (Nago Oyakata)
- True art has no goal and no purpose.
- -- Master Awa, Kyudo master
- One is eager to understand and explain everything.
- But when a man tries to express what he thinks he has
- understood, he is like an invalid. Words are his prison.
- -- Kosei Takano, Kendo master
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