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Reason
True Form
Cooperation
Friendship
| Maxims of Shido-kan | |||||||||
| Gouri : | Reason, Reasonable, Rationality. Each activity, each movement and pause in life's road should be preceded by and accompanied with reasonable and profound mediation, conscious of one's actual position and future in the community. Secondly, one should identify one's objectives and strengths and search for the universal truth in each idea or problem. |
| Gouho : | Legal or True Form. The process of reasonable and profound meditation must take into account the laws established by society and by life. One must also remember the laws of nature that govern the life of the universe. This is to say that the laws of our society must be legitimately obtained and legally provided so that one can follow them to the best of one's strength and ability. |
| Kiyoson : | Cooperation, Association, Union. Everything that I have said previously may have no meaning if it is not valued or appreciated by our society. To be valued and appreciated, it must benefit the people in general and the individual in particular. Individual progress is good because it advances your social group, as a whole, to a higher state. It is also necessary to unite others, to help them and to mutually cooperate by adapting individual interest to the betterment of the whole. |
| Kiyoyei : | Fellowship, Friendship. It is evident that one should strive to create a community that exhibits frankness, fellowship and friendship ; to form a society of men and women with positive thoughts and feelings to bring about a peaceful and friendly world. |
In summary, these four words contain the maxims of Grand Master Katsuya Miyahira as taught to all beginners. It is evident that they apply to the perfection of the individual, and Grand Master Miyahira has actualized these concepts, teaching an individual to become a better member of our society.
Copyright 2007, Original Okinawan Karate, L.L.C., of Holt Michigan —
a Shibu-dojo within the Beikoku Shido-kan Karate-do Association.