The underlying philosophy of the Bushikai Hidama Dojo is to integrate the Body, Mind, and Spirit to develop the complete human being.
The aim of education in the Bushikai Hidama Dojo is to teach each student "How to think", rather than "What to think" - to improve students' minds so as to enable them to think for themselves. Education as we see it is the exercise and development of Body and Mind. Training at the dojo is designed to maximize the scientific performance variables taught to the student, while encouraging and developing each student's potential during performance in the applied area of Self-defense. Great care and attention is paid concerning the education of each student.
The Bushikai Hidama Dojo in its philosophical aspect can be condensed as a vehicle for investigation for each student's personal truth and the direction in which they would like to go. In essence we blend the philosophical with the physical, the theory with the practical, and create balance. Each student is trained both on a physical and mental level to get straight to the point, they become efficient and their energy is controlled and conserved in the body for the purpose of " Self Development ".
Meditation plays an essential part in this self-development, as it is here the student learns to conserve their life force and to quiet the restlessness of the Body and Mind and become at one with their own internal Spirit. Through the daily training at the dojo students have found new vitality and a calmer state. At the Bushikai Dojo each student will truly learn " The Art and Science of Self-protection ". We believe that each student should understand that knowledge is how to use the whole of one's self, "Everyone would like to have knowledge, but few are willing to pay the price for it". Knowledge and the understanding, which accompanies it, cannot be given, or bought. It can only earned and learned through the discipline of training the mind, body, and spirit.
There are 3 paths to truth
1. The Inquiry - which is the essence of it.
2. The Knowledge - which is the presence of it.
3. The Belief - which is the enjoyment of it.
The improvement of understanding is in 2 parts
1. Our own increase of knowledge.
2. Our ability to deliver that knowledge to others
True knowledge in the mind, body and spirit follows a Five-step path.
1. To ask
2. To learn
3. To know
4. To do
5. To teach
The aim of education in the Bushikai Hidama Dojo is to teach each student "How to think", rather than "What to think" - to improve students' minds so as to enable them to think for themselves. Education as we see it is the exercise and development of Body and Mind. Training at the dojo is designed to maximize the scientific performance variables taught to the student, while encouraging and developing each student's potential during performance in the applied area of Self-defense. Great care and attention is paid concerning the education of each student.
The Bushikai Hidama Dojo in its philosophical aspect can be condensed as a vehicle for investigation for each student's personal truth and the direction in which they would like to go. In essence we blend the philosophical with the physical, the theory with the practical, and create balance. Each student is trained both on a physical and mental level to get straight to the point, they become efficient and their energy is controlled and conserved in the body for the purpose of " Self Development ".
Meditation plays an essential part in this self-development, as it is here the student learns to conserve their life force and to quiet the restlessness of the Body and Mind and become at one with their own internal Spirit. Through the daily training at the dojo students have found new vitality and a calmer state. At the Bushikai Dojo each student will truly learn " The Art and Science of Self-protection ". We believe that each student should understand that knowledge is how to use the whole of one's self, "Everyone would like to have knowledge, but few are willing to pay the price for it". Knowledge and the understanding, which accompanies it, cannot be given, or bought. It can only earned and learned through the discipline of training the mind, body, and spirit.
There are 3 paths to truth
1. The Inquiry - which is the essence of it.
2. The Knowledge - which is the presence of it.
3. The Belief - which is the enjoyment of it.
The improvement of understanding is in 2 parts
1. Our own increase of knowledge.
2. Our ability to deliver that knowledge to others
True knowledge in the mind, body and spirit follows a Five-step path.
1. To ask
2. To learn
3. To know
4. To do
5. To teach
