Budo no Kiso [武道の基礎]

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Mental: Compassion, Determination, Respect, Open-mindedness and Joy. 

Physical: Breathing, Walking, Falling, or in short, “Movement.”

Both the mental and physical proverbial cornerstones of budo are actually, in part, in reference to the fundamental principles of martial arts and karate. In short:

Mental: Principle of Theory; Principle of Philosophy.

Physical: Principle of Physiokinetics; Principle of Technique.

Personally, I added a couple of fundamental principles, i.e., Self-Defense and Chemical Dump, as they both contribute to understanding and applying in martial arts and/or karate toward self-fense, combatives and competitions. 

So, in addition, it becomes interesting and natural that the translation of the term or phrase along with the characters/ideograms means, “Fundamentals of Martial Arts.” The first two characters are for Budo, the middle character is a connector of sorts or a way to connect the last two characters, meaning principles, to the first two, i.e., giving us Principles of Martial Arts. (Note: the actual translation for the last two characters is found to be, “Foundation; basis.” Principles are characterized/ideograms with [原則]. The difference may be due to the combination of the four with the no or の character changing the overall meaning of all the characters/ideograms. 

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“In order for any life to matter, we all have to matter.” - Marcus Luttrell, Navy Seal (ret)

Hat tip (Ritsu-rei) to <The Budo Bum> as the inspiration for this post.