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Saru Mo Ki Kara Ochiru — Even Monkeys Fall from Trees 猿も木から落ちる

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Mastery does not make us immune to failure; rather it moves failure to the very ground where we feel most secure. For the karateka, this is not a counsel of despair but a discipline: to expect the fall, to refuse to fear it, and to rise with composure intact.

Mastery does not make us immune to failure; rather it moves failure to the very ground where we feel most secure. For the karateka, this is not a counsel of despair but a discipline: to expect the fall, to refuse to fear it, and to rise with composure intact. Saru mo ki kara ochiru 猿も木から落ちる [pronounced “sah-roo moh kee kah-rah oh-chee-roo”] means, quite literally, “even monkeys fall from trees.” The monkey is the unrivaled master of the tree. No creature reads bark and branch with such fluency, or moves through the canopy with a confidence that looks less like skill than like nature itself.…

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