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Dr. Terrence Webster-Doyle is a martial arts sixth-degree black former school teacher and administrator.

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Karate, the Art of Empty Self (1989) 12 Exemplare
Flight of the Golden Eagle (1992) 12 Exemplare
Eye of the Hurricane (1992) 8 Exemplare
Maze of the Fire Dragon (1992) 7 Exemplare

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As a response to young people being victimized by bullies, more and more parents are choosing to enroll their children in martial arts schools. But are these schools teaching what their sutdents really need?

Dr. Terrence webster-Doyle demonstrates convincingly how conventional instruction in martial arts-focused on physical skills only-is not enough to help young people understand and resolve conflict. However, if they are introduced to a whole martial art, one that teaches how to avoid and therefore prevent conflict, young people can learn to deal with threatening situations powerfully and effectively, without resorting to phsyical violence. Incuded in the text are mental martial arts skills, a chart of nonviolent alternatives, active familly roleplays,and other creative activities that parents and their children will discover ways to deal peacefully with violence that are surprisingly simple, satisfying to practice, and immediateliy useful.

Dr. Terrence Webster-Doyle has drawn upon his diverse, 40-year career in education and the martial arts to develop a pioneering program on peaceful conflict resolution that has been endorsed by the National PTA, Scouting Magazine, the National Education Association, Educators for Social responsibility, and the International Association of Educators for World Peace, Dr. Webster-Doyle's books have earned the Benjamin Franklin Award for Excellence in Independent Publishing and the Robert Burns Medal in literature from Austria's Albert Schweitzer Society for 'outstanding merit in the field of peace promotion.'

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Introduction:We want our children to be safe
1 The seriousness of bullying
2 Why conventional martial arts programs don't work
3 What 'martial arts for peace' can teach your child
4 How to alter conditioning that causes conflict
5 The art of mental self-defense
6 Teaching the act that conquers fear
7 Looking toward the 21st century
8 What parents can do at home
Appendix: Questions & answers
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Solve conflict nonviolently using the art of karate.

This book is for young people...

Are you interested in the art of karate but want to find nonviolent solutions to conflict? This book is filled with exciting stories about karate. It will teach you...

What a great master of karate does with an umbrella!
How to stop a bully from hurting you!
How to get real power!
What 'Fighting the invisible enemy' is!

This book is for adults too!

This book can help parents, teachers, and counselors who are searching for healthy, nonviolent, human ways for young people to deal with conflict. This book gives the adult reader...

A context in which to help young people understand violence.
The skills to asist young people in learning creative alternatives to conflict.

This book encourages the study of the art of karate which helps young people develop:

Stamina, coordination, and flexibility!
Alertness of mind, self-control, and perseverance!
Keen intellectual skills!
An attitude of kindness, consideration, cooperation, and respect-what we call manners!

Contents

There's a fight going on
Introduction
Chapter 1 How karate began
Chapter 2 A great master of karate
Chapter 3 Take nami do and mukuso
Chapter 4 Mind like moon-mind like water
Chapter 5 Focus and kiai
Chapter 6 Powe
Chapter 7 Sen-no-sen: Awareness
Chapter 8 Walking away with confidence: Powerful ways to avoid conflict
Chapter 9 Nonviolent altenatives
Chapter 10 Karate manners
Chapter 11 How to choose a karate school
Chapter 12 Fighting the invisible enemy
Chapter 13 The new warrior-Mastering the art of budo
A special note to the young reader from the author
A message to parents, teachers, and counselors
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Building character by mastering the martial arts code of conduct

For young people-You are the inheritor of the ancient warrior! If you treat him as your enemy and try to fight him, he will conquer you and be passed on to the next generation. If you pass the tests of character, and respect the ancient warrior within, and look fear in the face, you will understand how to-defeat the enemy without fighting! Are you ready for the tests of wisdom? Beware: the ancient warrior is very powerful!

For adults-Character development through the martial arts. This book teaches young people to develop strength of character and healthy values which will guide them in creating goodness in their lives.

The stories and teachings in Breaking the Chains of the Anceint Warror can be used by:

Martial arts instructors-as required reading for rank advancement.
Educators-as curriculum resources for understanding relationship.
Parents-as examples of healthy and human values to live by.

Contents

Foreword by Linda Lee Cadwell
Mastering the martial arts code of conduct
Tests of wisdom
Breaking the chains: The test of respect
Hall of battle: The test of bravery
Way of the golden dragon: The test of selflessness
Curse of the ancient warrior: The test of honor
Mind like moon: The test of unity
Gordian knot: The test of spirit
Games martial arts masters play: The test of trust
Attacking nothingness: The test of compassion
Defeating the enemy without fighting: The test of understanding
Unbroken flame of attention: The test of harmony
War of the rose: The test of strength
Quest for peace: The test of order
Fighting the paper tiger: The test of focus
Way of the sword: The test of excellence
Beginner's mind: The test of wisdom
Faceless face: The test of purity
Face of the enemy: The test of humility
Bell ringing in the empty sky: The test of love
To the young reader
To the adult reader
Questions for understanding
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This book is for anyone seriously interested in understanding themselves. One doesn't have to practice the physical aspect of the art of karate to benefit from this book. The art of karate is simply a context for bringing attention to that which we call our selves. This context creates a framework by which one can readily explore the self in action.

Violence is too often portrayed as an heroic cultural ideal, and that accepts fighting as an honorable solution to conflict. This attitude has allowed human beings to justify solving the of relationship by aggressive, combative means.

Karate as a martial art, is meant to be practiced as an art, as a way to end conflict by nonviolent means, not just by having the confidence not to fight, but, more importantly, to end conflict at its source within the human mind. This paradoxical intent becomes clear when one begins to understand oneself, which the art of karate gives the student the opportunity to do. In understanding oneself, the student comes into direct contact with the origin of conflict, the foundation of violence. This confrontation with oneself is the essence of the art, the primary reason why serious people study karate.

This publication is not a manual on self-defense. Nor is this work a philosophical or intellectual interpretation of the martial arts. Instead, this book clearly addresses, as no martial arts book has done before, the underlying intent of karate and the martial arts. In simple, straightforward language, it inquires into the roots of conflict.

-from the preface

Whenever you cross swords with an enemy you must not think of cutting him either strongly or wealkly, just think of cutting and killing him. Be intent solely upon killing the enemy. -Miyamoto Musashi,

To subdue the enemy without fighting is the hignest skill.-Gichin Funakoshi

There is a fundamental and dangerously different perspective contained in the above quotes; they are two contrasting ways of delaing with conflict; they are also the basis of two radically different approaches to the Martial Arts. One approach lays the foundation for violence and increased aggression under the guise of self-improvement, while the other nurtures self-understanding and intelligence.

The marial arts have been portrayed as deadly systems of self-defense techniques. We read of Musashi, the 'Sword Saint,' who at the early age of 13 killed a person, and went on killing over 60 people before his 30th birthday just to prove that he was invincible. We read other bizarre tales of incredible feats of prowess and strength by martial arts 'Masters,' such as the story of a well-known karate teacher who killed bulls with his bare hands to prove how strong his mehtod was. Many people want that power, that energy that seems to emanate from one who knows these fighting arts.

There is a great sense of powerlessness today. People are seeking more and more ways to get power, and the martial arts, especially karate, appeals to many. With its emphasis on aggressive fighing skills, and the fascination of mysterious knowledge from the East, it has become increasingly popular. And there are many martial arts magazines, schools and instructors who exploit this desire for power and for the arcane.

It seem to me that the traditional marial arts, the violent, military, egotistic, popularized, romantic view, is a devastatingly perverted misapplication of what in essence is a way of life devoted to developing sensitivity and understanding. Whereas many tradional martial arts are concernecd primarlly with lethal self-defense techniques, conquering and 'killing the enemy,
and proving one's self through competition, the art of karate is concerned with understanding violence, 'subduing the enemy without fighting,' thereby creating the means of going beyond conflict.

The word budo is a key word in the martial arts. It means literally, 'the way to stop the sword. It also means 'the way to stop conflict.' The word karate has come to mean 'empty handed,' to defend oneself without the use of weapons. Its deeper and more significant meaning from a Taoist and Zen Buddhist perspective means 'empty self,' with the emphasis on kara or 'empty,' Budo and the art of karate as a way to empty self are very similar. The similarity lies in the words conflict and self. In karate, as in most martial arts practiced world wide, the self, the ego, the 'me' has been glorified, and becomes powerful, dominating, undefeatable, invincible. Traditional karate uses fighting skills to develop this invincibility, thus creating a steely veneer, a calloused spirit of invulnerability. Lip service is occasionally paid to 'spirituality,' but actually most practices are really ways to fill one's self up, to inflate and toughen the ego under the guise of self-transcendence. Self-improvement is thus seen as self-enhancement, that is, self-centeredness, focusing inwardly on an image of self that is the root of conflict.

In the art of karate we find something radically different. although one may not see a difference on the surface, it is there. The main similarity of traditional karate to the art of karate is in technique. Both train vigorously in self-defense skills. Both derive confidence form these skills. But this where the similarity stops and the radical divergence begins. Where traditional karate begins and ends with techniques, the art of karate has just begun. The confidence gained in traditional karate comes from developing techniques. The confidence gained in the art of karate also comes form techniques , but it goes far beyond these skills; its intent is to develop an atmosphere of trust, of understanding. Without this much deeper and more comprehensive aspect of genuine self-enquiry, learning only self-defense skills causes one's practice or understanding to become unbalanced, destructive. Within the context of authentic self-understanding, self-defense skills may have a place, but if one's mistaken goal is to empower the dissociated self, the ego, then one is simply reinforcing fear, which compounds the problem of aggression and violence form isolated self-centered activity.

The art of karate is not a strategy, 'skilled management in getting the better of an adversary,' as the word is commonly understood in many traditional forms of the martial arts; nor is it a 'skillful means of attaining an end.' That way is the way of fear, of a cunning mind that is mischievous and detrimental. It is the seed of exploitative 'cutthroat' competition; it pits person against person in a struggle for dominance. The art of karate is 'non-strategy'-neither a way to get the better of anyone, nor a means to any end that the contrivance of self can create. It is rather a vehicle through which one can understand or have continuous insight into the causes of the breakdown of relationship, thereby bringing about simultaneously a sense of order, harmony and unity.

The intent of the art of karate is to give one the opportunity to discover who one is. The intent of the art of karate is to act as a mirror so that one can readily and non-judgmentally come into direct relationship with what is usually hidden and resisted. By creating a confident and trusting environment, it allows students to become aware of their pent-up aggressions, tensions and conflicts. Allowing everything that was hidden or resisted to be observed is the central most important aspect in the process of 'emptying self'; that is the heart of the art of karate. Where the traditional martial approach in karate fosters flexibility, suppleness and sensitivity. It allows one to be vulnerable-and, paradoxically, this is a great strength. Real power comes from being open, questioning, being susceptible to oneself and others. Only a false sense of power can come from feigning the image of confidence, the image of strength.

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Introduction: The paradox
Foreword
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