kyushindo
 Kyushindo was an ancient and defunct Japanese religious philosophy which Abbe Kenshiro Docho came across during his academic studies whilst at the famous Bud Senmon Gakko, or 'Special Teacher Training College". Upon his experience of Satori or enlightenment, at the age of eighteen, he found this revelation to coincide with the old writing, from this idea he developed a new style of Judo and two years later became Grand Champion. Upon graduating from the College he spent the next twenty years in research and development of the principles, before declaring a new system. During this time he became a master, not only of Judo, but Aikido, Kendo, Jukendo and several of the other traditional martial disciplines.
Because of his fame as a Budo master people have very naturally assumed Kyushindo to be a theory of martial discipline but in fact martial discipline is only one application of Kyushindo. The essence of Kyushindo cannot be understood by study of Budo alone and this application is properly regarded as the first basic steps in the progress of the student. The various techniques of traditional Budo create the ideal opportunity for study of Kyushindo principles in a basic form which is to be applied in everyday life. Extension of the various principles involved and understanding of their numerous and varied applications is the means whereby they are properly grasped with total understanding of these principles. In the widest possible sense, the highest levels of Budo technique are achieved as a by-product of progress.
The very limited field of martial disciplines is too narrow an application to make the principle of Kyushindo clear and can be no more than the means employed to attain a far higher goal. The theory of Kyushindo has application In any study, or activity that can be named simply because it does not deal with the form and technique of anything, but with the fundamental principles which such forms and techniques represent. The principle may be likened to the hub of a wheel from which an infinite number of spoken or forms' radiate. The task of perfecting an art by the laborious process of studying each 'form' is doomed to failure because the possible variations are endless. By discovering the central principle it can then be applied in any direction at will.
The three precepts of kyu shin do are as follows:
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