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Three Golden Pearls on a String: The Esoteric Teachings of Karate-Do & the Mystical Journey of a Warrior Priest
 
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Three Golden Pearls on a String: The Esoteric Teachings of Karate-Do & the Mystical Journey of a Warrior Priest (Paperback)

by Thomas M. White (Author)
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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: North Atlantic Books,U.S.; 2nd Edition edition (1 Mar 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1556431074
  • ISBN-13: 978-1556431074
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.8 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Essential Meaning of Karate-do, 29 Jan 2008
By Terry Tozer "TJSKA.com" (Reading & Bracknell, UK) - See all my reviews
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I don't know how this book came to be in my "Recommended for you" list, but I am so glad that I bought it. I had to go to the American site to check out it's customer reviews & after reading the book I felt compelled to leave some. I sincerely hope that I do it and Thomas White some justice.

A nice small book yes, but not an easy one to get on with & digest immediately as it is quite philosophical in nature. This may put some readers off. It's certainly a very thought provoking and deeply meaningful book, full of short allegories that obviously stem from the authors many years as a hard working student and proponent of karate.

Any one who has studied the martial arts for some years and devoted even a moderate amount of effort to it, will recognise the many pearls of wisdom that lie amongst it's pages.

I was nicely surprised to find on one page hidden right at the very back of the book a karate lineage of the author which shows Thomas's karate lineage through his own famous instructor Master Tsutomu Ohshima, through Grand Master Gichin Funakoshi way back to it's origins in China (QED?).

Included are short & poignant extracts from various religious texts such as the Bhagavad Gita, the Rig Veda & the Tao Te Ching to name but a few.

I will have to read it a few more times yet to get a fuller flavour it's meanings but the initial and basic thread of the book is that karate is not just about kicking & punching, nor is it intended as a weekend recreational sport, but more importantly as a way of life, to be used thoughtfully in and outside of the dojo and that the biggest enemy to anyone is oneself.

Although first published over 20 years ago, it's message is timeless and worth using for meditating upon.

Incidentally, Thomas has written another delightful book (2008) which carries on in a similar vain called "The Heart of the Way "Sandokai" - A Guide to the Inner Practice of Karate-Do". This book has 73 pages but does not have and ISBN [yet] & can only be bought from the publisher called Lulu. Good Luck!
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