The ability to analyze and concentrate are two fundamental mental functions and essential tools in the quest of human nature towards self-knowledge. Despite their great importance however, they remain just tools which can have a positive or negative impact based on how we use them. Thus we often hear about extreme and false ways of using them, where some people focus on the present and forget the past whereas others stay fixated on the past and ignore the present.
That leads into not finding or (even worse) finding incorrect answers which lead them into wrong paths. The correct way is to eliminate the distance between past and present and the removal of the boundary between before and after. By doing this the mind is not trapped in the "part", has a more complete picture of the "whole" and thus can fill the gaps encountering during our search.
Something similar applies between training and philosophy. We should not focus on only one of them since the one cannot exist without the other. They complement each other and combined they form a complete entity. Hence there can be no philosophy without prior training and accordingly the trainings unable to develop a philosophy remained stationary, short references in history as simple exercises and not as "training" with a specific goal and purpose which is to promote the philosophy of values.
The training of body and mind through the technical exercises of Karate has as sole purpose the better and more complete understanding of ourselves. A deeper analysis of any technique as well as a study of the cause and effect relationships shows that the human thought constitutes the "whole" and that each of us is unique possessing his own set of beliefs, values and virtues.
By opening our mind to the techniques of Karate we can discover wider and longer horizons. if we throw a pumpkin in the water and push it down it will start spinning, presenting us a different side each time as this is an ongoing process. The same applies to the philosophy of Karate-do if developed correctly. It is never fixated in a single point, always producing a new side. This constant and free flow of thought is the main requirement since stasis of this flow leads to stagnation of mind and spirit and creates philosophies which sooner or later decline and disappear.