Spiritual Philosophy

We must employ Christianity through Seireido to give a new form of martial arts study and a new meaning to the world. Another thing that makes this art different than other arts is the spiritual aspect of Christianity. Although, most Christians do not believe in striking another person, our philosophy is if harm is in are way we will remove it peacefully or with a defensive action. Absence of immoral acts as the principle means not to be carried away by immoral acts in the procedure of a immoral neighbor, not to be corrupted by evil objects, to be in Christ yet devoid immoral acts.

True evil is the substance of thought and immoral acts is the function of true evil. A Seireido student countenance is his or her spirit made obvious, his or her Christian being as well as his or her martial arts expertise. Bring the spirit into precise focus and make it observant so that it can quickly percept reality. At the same time, it implicit limitless growth and definitely, importance should fall not on the cultivation of the particular improvement which coalescence into Seireido, but rather on Seireido that enters and unites that particular improvement.

The spirit must be liberated from immoral behaviors, harmful, preventive thought procedures and even normal immoral acts itself. Following every motion, the faith of his or her spirit is made noticeable. The way to transcend Seireido lies in the accurate use of the spirit and the will. Seireido, in other words is a procedure of God's love for us, yes we teach how to hit another but even the best Christian and/ or their family can be attacked on the street or in church. In fact, the first couple months of 2009 had more crimes on churches than the whole year of 2008.

Seireido releases itself in Christianity with understanding of the inner essence of things and gives form to the Christian connection of martial arts with nothing, with the nature of Christian martial arts. Seireido calls for complete mastery of Biblical procedure, improved by thought within the spirit. The spiritualizes of all life is a truth that can be fully realized only when false notions such as Buddhism becomes a part of your training, whose destiny can be considered apart from the whole are forever annihilated.

The aim of Seireido is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in the deepest Christian and martial arts experiences of Christian martial arts. Seireido is the Holy Spirit and to the essence of spiritual life. If you stay spiritual, outward things will disclose themselves. The aim of Seireido is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, mind and body, but the opening of all Christian capacities to the life of the world.

Seireido is to enable Christian martial arts experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total spiritual being of the world. The voiceless voice will be heard but the voice itself will not, in other words live in Christ and others will follow, talking to much about it drives them away. Seireido is an expression of life and transcends both Christianity and martial arts.

To understand Seireido, one ought to disengage all ideals, pre-arranged self-defense and even the concept of what is or isn't ideal in Seireido. Looking at a situation without naming it, when it is named it just makes it a word and the word does not help the study. Because, a true situation changes every time one gets into that situation, but the word or name of a situation never changes and teaches the practitioner false defensive bunkai that could get them hurt or killed in real life.

It is indeed difficult to see the situation simply as a situation and do not make it too complex when practicing self-defense. It is easy to teach one to be skillful when they know what attack is coming, but it is difficult to teach one true reflexes of awareness and defense. Seireido favors foundation drills with no pre-arranged methods of defense and since Seireido has no style, it can fit in with all styles.

As a result, Seireido utilizes all ways and is bound by none and uses any techniques which serves its purpose. Approach Seireido with the idea of mastering the Biblical Art of Spirituality. Forget about winning and losing and forget about pride and pain. The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat.

Let the situation take its course and your method of defense will strike at the right moment. Seireido teaches us not to look backward once the fight begins; it treats reality and unreality indifferently. Seireido avoids the systemized methods such as pre-arranged self-defense drills, if you understand true defense you will know that a street fight can never be anticipated. Seireido does not take modern detours in order to make a student into an instructor.