武道修道의 本質과 正體性

Abstract

The system of martial arts have been changed into sportization had been influenced by sports at the present time. The sportization of martial arts is criticized in sporting circles because it would fall martial arts into the means of winning at all cost. Martial arts sports have changed the system of practice in an external side because it have laid emphasis on contest and competition. Martial arts had stressed the internal training since modern age, however, the appearance of martial arts sports have led to confusion in the concept and identity of martial arts that had been practiced in the way of cultivation of oneself. In the process of cultivation of oneself, we should disentangle a complicated matter that caused in real world and realize the humanity by accomplishing the goal of the perfection of self. The cultivation of oneself in martial arts is the revelation of the sense of being thorough physical cultivation, and the sense of being of human is the revelation of human nature that would maintain a sense of unity with the world and be inseparable form the world. We who could see the major premise of unity with all things in the world should realize the being of human in human relation, we could be inseparable from the world with a sense of unity with great nature, and a person who got such a being of human would be find great illumination. The purpose of cultivation of oneself in martial arts is to establish the autonomous attitude to life through the consciousness in human inside and ultimately to take up courage that could perform duty and responsibility in realization of common social values through the revelation of humanity.