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Excerpts from The Zen Way to The Martial Arts...
...breathing in is taking in supplies; breathing out, slowly and deeply, spreads them through the body.
It is important to concentrate on breathing out, on spreading and distributing, because breathing in, stocking up energy, happens unconsciously and automatically.
The Japanese martial arts use this way of breathing, and any attack must take place while breathing out (yang), if possible while the adversary is breathing in (yin), because he is then at his most vulnerable.
What is the most important thing of all in the martial arts?
T.D. Breathing. What condition are you in below the navel? I don't mean your sexual organs! I mean the hara, three fingers beneath the navel. The way to develop the power of the hara, to assemble all your energy there, is by right breathing.
