The essence of martial arts is not in the creation and practice of complex techniques but rather to perform the simply techniques with ease, with grace, and with exactness or preciseness that is on the mark, all the time, every time. Think of the simplistic complexities of the tea ceremony of Japan where placing a spoon a mere one sixteenth of an inch off the mark is wrong, and everybody knows it.
It is a self-imposed complexity that exists in the individual and it is the individual that imposes the complexities in the simplistic movement that is karate, the martial art, the art of life.
It is this attitude that is complex, the art of the game of life, or the game of life as a form of art, and provides many lessons on living in the world.
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