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Using genuine applications, you can also overcome the limitations of strength because you will not be using it! You will learn how to absorb your opponent's force, borrow, and then give it back, the whole process being done instantly by contact reflex while the mind is dispassionately fixed in the meditational state known as samadhi. If you find your body is flowing with the force of an attack, not resisting or blocking, but rerouting it, and if you find calmness amidst physical action, then you will have discovered the watercourse way for yourself. Your own understanding will lead to your own true karate-do.

Gassho

Nathan J. Johnson

Kai San, Zen Shaolin Karate Renmei

The University of Southampton

Chapter One

Philosophy and History

To begin, I will describe the history of karate, from its origins at the Shaolin Temple through to its development in Okinawa and eventual transplantation in Japan. In this chapter, I will also outline the philosophy and theory of the art, which are inseparable from the its physical aspects.