空手道と瞑想（マインドフルネス）

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  • カラテドウ ト メイソウ(マインドフルネス)
  • Karate-dô and meditation (mindfulness)

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Karate-dô and meditation (mindfulness) Martial arts have since their beginnings always been understood as an holistic formation of the human body and mind. Although it may be an “invented tradition”, Karate-dô can claim to be deeply connected with Zen-Buddhism. In this paper I will describe and classify those forms of meditation that can be extracted from the teachings of the Buddha Sakyamuni. The practice of “mindfulness” as it was developped in the USA is an amalgam of diverse types of buddhist mental training. It is nowadays widely applied in clinical and therapeutic contexts. Mindfulness training is presently introduced into Karate-dô, namely by Yukawa Shintarô, a Karate and Taijiquan practitioner and clinical psychologist. This paper is an assessment of this effort and tries to contribute to the concept, that the effective use of meditative elements in Karate training can decisively improve body awareness, technical skill and overall health.

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