Moral Aspects . ITF – Taekwon-Do in our Western Society

Thesis for lVth Dan
by Eddy Van Damme, Belgium

What is the cement that links the concepts ’morality’, ’martial art’ and ’Western
society’ together? It tells something about ’me’, of course. I have always wondered
about life, why it is so difficult, thinking about everything I was doing and why I was
doing those things. I always thought there must be a way of living in which things
weren’t so complicated as they are. I did, and I still do, a lot of things in my working –
and spare time to explore life: theatre, philosophy, psychiatry, travelling around the
world, reading, cooking, studying languages, running, watching films and, of course
practising Taekwon-Do. But life stays complicated, the world isn’t as nice as we’d like
it to be, and a lot of people live in miserable circumstances.

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