MARTIAL arts embody the study of the human being in a holistic point of view. Thus, martial arts became a tool which can either develop or enhance the capability of a person guided by its principles perfected and preserved by the masters where they continue to practice and develop.
Martial arts have long been seen as combat, fitness, sport, self-cultivation, self-discipline, building character etc. These are all true but more, martial arts in the olden times has been a form of life, a part of a culture and tradition. It could be said that martial arts is an ancient form of life where everyone in that period lives and breathes in the principle of martial arts.
Many martial arts scholars believe there was once a civilization that lived with the virtue and principles of martial arts, a community where everyone is a part of it all in skill and in character, similar to what we know and read and see about the famous Shaolin Temple but larger.
Martial arts to those who believe and live by its principles is more than combat, more than skill and even more than the molding of character. Martial arts is about embodying its philosophies and or moralities.
Martial arts is about knowing how to fight but does not have to use it. This is the martial arts we learn in order to understand the circumstances so that we prevent ourselves from committing the mistakes because we know the consequences.
Martial arts reveals what is negative and positive about life or about peoples actions, thus, guiding that person to do what is righteous, although some still commits the inappropriate either by choice or by mistake seemingly like how man abuses or corrupts his free will, shows only how the person’s martial arts is weak or strong.
Martial arts becomes a virtue after one embodies it as a lifestyle. Martial arts is a gift much more like a superpower, but is based on being a righteous human being able to give balance to life and how it is lived.