Category: <span>Philosophy</span>

In Karate-Do Kyohan, Funakoshi quoted from the Heart Sutra, which is prominent in Shingon Buddhism: “Form is emptiness, emptiness is form itself” (shiki zokuze kū kū zokuze shiki). He interpreted the “kara” of Karate-dō to mean “to purge oneself of selfish and evil thoughts … for only with a clear […]