空手道と瞑想（マインドフルネス）

東洋では武芸･武術で精神的な面を重んずる伝統があります｡この小論文で，空手道と禅，すなわち空手道と瞑想（マインドフルネス）の関連について検討します｡マインドフルネスはアメリカで開発された仏教的な瞑想法で，臨床心理，精神医療の分野や医療現場で広く実践されています｡日本でも最近話題になり，その｢効果｣は心理学，医学などで研究，実践されています｡空手家兼心理学者の湯川慎太郎は｢マインドフルネス｣を空手道の世界に紹介し導入しています｡ここではその試みを検討，評価し，空手道で瞑想的な要素を活かすことによって，身体感覚，技術的な技量とともに，一般的な健康も増進させることができるということを検証しています｡

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.