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Preface

PART ONE
The Life and Times
1915 - 1933/5
1933/5 - 1941/5
1945 - 1964
1964 - 1985
Epilogue.
Satori or "Enlightenment"
PART 2A
Analysis of Kyushindo
Fascicle 1.
KU SHIN DO
Fascicle 2.
Aims, Principles, Objectives
and Techniques

PART 2B

Fascicle 3.
To follow the path of seeking …
Fascicle 4.
Theory and Practice
PART 3
The Three Basic Precepts of Kyushindo
i. BAMBUTSU RUTEN
ii. RITSU DO
iii. CHO WA

 

Analysis of the Theory of
Kyushindo

The Three Basic Precepts of Kenshiro Abbe's Unified Theory of Kyushindo

BAMBUTSU RUTEN
ALL THINGS IN THE UNIVERSE ARE IN PERPETUAL MOTION.


Nothing in the Universe is still, or fixed. Everything is in a constant state of change and flux. Perpetual motion is connected with infinity.

The total complexity of our Universe is basically formed by various combinations of matter and void, or mass and space.

The activating principle of the Universe is motion and we even define energy as the capacity to produce "work", which is the motion of mass through space. Existence itself is merely the duration of things, which we perceive as the motion of matter through time.

These basic quantities of matter, energy, time and motion are not possible to define in scientific terms and all are mutually dependent, or in other wors, being unable to exist in isolation.
These very words, printed in black ink, are only defined by the blank spaces of white paper, which provide contrast. One cannot exist without the other and they are also interchangeable, in as much that we could have white printing on black paper.
In this same fashion the notion of time cannot exist without motion, or change, neither can this motion itself exist without a thing that is to move - and the distance, or space, over which it is to travel.

Matter cannot exist without space to denote its shape, or emptiness.
The concept of motion, in itself, includes all the components of what we perceive in the Universe. Perpetual motion is infinite since, just as there is no time when it ceases it has by definition, no time at which it began.
Just consider for a moment that, without at least a single particle of matter there can be no such thing as void.

Before matter was created, there was not even emptiness because this in itself only came into existence in relation to matter. Both are what we term "mutually dependent opposites". If motion is thus perpetual, then the entire substance of the Universe on both the physical and temporal planes must also be perpetual, or infinite, because they are all part of the same integrated whole.

Bambutsu Ruten does not simply say that the Universe is in motion, it specifically states that all things move. Just as the simple concept of perpetual motion uncovers some very profound questions, so does the apparently simple statement that "all things move".

Western thought once demanded that all things revolve around the earth and the result, in astronomical terms, was a complex rosette pattern of planetary orbits, too confusing to easily follow.
Copernicus then put forward the theory that earth and the planets revolved around the sun. This resolved the complex pattern into a series of circular, or more properly elliptical orbits which are easy to understand explain. This is precisely what we do in Kyushindo when we express physical movement as a series of circular actions.

Because the Copernican system was simpler and more elegant, it rapidly became the standard western view, so much so, that today, it is generally regarded as an incontrovertible truth that all planets orbit the sun.
Thus we must apply the Kyushindo theory of adaptation in accord with extraneous factors, or we might easily fall into the trap of considering each precept as incontrovertible truth, were it not for this definite statement that "all things move".

The fact that one viewpoint is more convenient for us to grasp is no basis for establishing it as a fundamental truth.

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