Karate as a spiritual path!
The author, Dr. phil. Siegfried Johannes Schwemmer, 4th Dan Karate, a student of Alfred Heubeck, is a theologian and pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria. He practices karate on the path of Zen. He has studied mysticism intensively and combines the tradition of martial arts with that of Christian spirituality in his thinking and practice. This opens for him an unusual view on both systems.
The fighter stands alone. He is ready to accept any disadvantage for himself in order to fulfill his goal, his mission, his assignment. He cannot count on the applause of average people. And he has the strength to do without this applause.
The fighter fights an inner battle above all. He fights with his doubts, his fear, his loneliness. He struggles to find his courage, his compassion, his perseverance. He struggles to be a man who does not lose his humanity.
Schwemmer shows that this is a cross-cultural phenomenon: it is evident in Buddha's lonely lion call, it is in the Daoist insight that the one who lives according to the eternal way must renounce the applause of the crowd, and it is found in the militant positions Jesus took against the establishment of his time: The fighter stands alone. And he is willing to take the consequences of his stance and bear them before all the world.
Features:
Publisher: Schlatt Books
Refined paperback
Language: German
leather grained foil lamination
Format: 14 x 20 cm
Volume: 208 pages
ISBN: 978-3-937745-25-1
