At the beginning there was not existing nothing.
This beginning was not the beginning, neither the end nor the eternal. It was nothing. By negation, opposition to this nothing, tension has arisen (suffering). This first tension is of a polar nature, conceiving a positive (male) and negative (female) aspect, which we call according to the Chinese terminology yang and yin.
In Chinese cosmology is this first tension called taichi, meaning the Highest Perfection, the Finest Finality, the Grand Ultimate or the First cause. In Japanese language is called taikyoku. In ancient terminology, we call it cosmos as opposed to chaos, which is called wuchi in Chinese. Complete disorder means that there was nothing.
Chinese taichichuan means in Japanesse language taikyokuken. Chuan (ken) means fist, technique, practice, exercise and training. Taikyoku is the name of a very basic form (kata) of karate created by the famous modern karate master Gichin Funakoshi from Okinawa.
Note how karate is tied to taichichuan. Indeed, the legendary origin of the practice, from that originated Okinawan karate, is featured in the Chinese monastery Shaolin.
This original form of exercise was created by the patriarch of Zen Buddhism (mahayana) named Bodhidharma (Daruma Taishi) for the monks of that monastery whose condition was so miserable that they could not endure his sitting meditation training (zazen).
Note that karate exercise was originally designed to improve essential human condition (fitness) and zen. Karate is Zen. Only then did it fulfill its function of defending the monastery and monks. Eventually it became a martial art and eventually a sport and a brutal violence that completely negated its original meaning, purpose and mission.
Karate means empty (kara) hand (te). Te means technique, practice, exercise and training. Kara means universal emptiness, empty mind. Karate is a simple discipline of body and mind. Karate-do means the way or path (do), the method, the science and the doctrine (dharma) of an unarmed discipline of empty hand (empty mind) man. Karate is zen. Isn´t it true?
Isn’t it time to already return to the origin of all things?
