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Karate-size everything...
I believe a Karate-ka has to have Karate and its principles fore front in ones mind as often as possible.
If practiced like that, the Karate-ka will have an easier time of getting through the easy and tough times that life presents them with.
Karate builds character and self esteem and teaches respect and tolerance of others who may have different beliefs and doctrines...
...even if that respect is not reciprocated by closed minded and self serving religious practictioners, is that of any concern to the Karate-ka.
Karate-ka are not interested in spreading religious dogma to the world, they simply respond to the solicitations of the world and act accordingly.
To Karate-ize everything means not to be offended when hypocritical evangelicals denounce their practices as perpetuating violence in the world.
To Karate-ize everything means to understand the violence being perpetrated to the earth each and everyday through commerce and corporate greed...
...by companies who's CEO's steadfastly appear in church each Sunday to proudly wallow in a doctrine which in reality they completely contradict.
A Karate-ka practices respect, not just giving lip service to it, but making it an integral part of their life.
Karate-ka make their minds and bodies strong, develop concentration, power and focus and use those skills to manage their affairs with effectiveness and purpose.
The people who publicly decry the learning of how to severely injure or kill another human being, are the very same hypocrite's who stand firmly behind a government and it's policies, which use even more vilolent methods to kill innocent civilians through military intervention, all for its own self serving interests.
To Karate-ize everything means to stand up and defend the weak, and to speak out about human and the worlds degradation.
People can only accomplish this from a position of power, brought about by the development of discipline, self-awareness, respect and knowledge through countless hours of dedication spent in the Dojo...
...and in the world.
RJF
