Kenshiro Abbe's life was punctuated and marked by two moments of Satori, moments of revelation or "enlightenment". He experienced his first Satori at the age of eighteen and then spent the next 24 years in maturing and developing his ideas before launching his personal theory of Kyushindo in 1955.

He had a second Satori in the first week of October 1968 after reading the teachings of Nichiren Daishonin. He read for six hours, put the book down and found himself completely well again. Apparently for the first time in nine years his mind and body were sharp and clear again. He had no pain in the body, although his weight had dropped to eight stone. Born anew or 'transformed' he began his life again.

He was swift to express great displeasure at the way his group had been run and decided that it was necessary to start again from basics and build up a new spiritual growth for the organization. It was his opinion that instead of wishing to study the truth of Budo, most members wanted only physical instructions which teachers could then warp and twist to use to their own needs and to impose dubious and undeserved authority over gullible students. He decided that it was necessary to break down the Councils and start again from scratch. He therefore did so, virtually destroying the organization.

Kenshiro Abbe's second Satori did lead to remission from serious ailments that had up until that moment got only progressively worse, however, due to the various injuries that he had suffered and having not trained for four or five years he was unable to physically and mentally control himself and this frustration caused him to become unstable in himself. His inevitable retirement and withdrawal from all martial arts activity had begun.

Nothing at all is known of Kenshiro Abbey's whereabouts or activities between 1974 and 1984; the last decade of his life. Gossip, conjecture and down right lies have, since Abbe's demise, filled this void and all kinds of people and organisation have laid claim to being students or colleagues of the Master. However, none seemed to have grasped or properly embraced his Unified Theory of Kyushido. On the contrary and most sadly it is a matter of well documented fact that his one everlasting regret was that no one really understood him or his ideals for a natural form of Judo.

Perhaps one day his ideals would be looked at again and taught throughout the world.