空手の道のりは長い。途方もなく長い。その頂きは全く見えないくらい遙かに高い。登れば登るほどその先はますます高くなる。ただし，優れた師は，その方向を正しく示す案内をしてくれる。したがって，空手を含む武道は，優れた師に出会えないとたいへんなことになる。道中に遭難することもあれば，そこが山頂だと勘違いすることもある。麓をさまよい続けて結局まったく山に登っていない，そもそも山がそこにあることさえ分かっていない，ということもあるだろう。せっかく武道を志したにもかかわらず，長い長い貴重な稽古の時間を，まったく無駄にすることになる。「三年かけて良師を探せ」とは，まさにこのためである。そして，本物の良師に会えることは，実際，極めて稀である。
The way of karate is long. It is tremendously long. The summit of karate is as far-off as we can not see entirely. The more we climb the mountain of karate, the higher our destination we want to climb is. Nevertheless, good masters (teachers) can show us the correct direction and guide us to practice karate in a correct way. Therefore, if a practitioner of budo including karate have no chance to meet a good teacher, it would prove fatal for him/her. He/she might get lost during his/her way on one occasion, or might mistake there for the summit on another occasion. In other cases, there are possibility that he/she might wander the roots and not have climbed the mountain yet, or, in the first place, he/she might not know even that there is the mountain there. Even though fortunately he/she sets his/her mind on leaning budo, this misfortune may make him/her wholly waste a long long valuable time for practice. This is why there is a saying in Japan that it is worthy to take at least three years to search for a good teacher ("San-nen kakete ryoshi wo sagase"). And furthermore, actually, it is extremely rare to meet a REAL good teacher.
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