It's Not About Loss and Profit
When I see each of you in your dogi, you all look splendid. When I have you do your techniques, you're quite skilled. However, the most vital part of your training, group cohesion, is missing. Making excuses and covering up with the words "self-development," or, "doing my own things by myself," there is a strange group growing up among you who ignore the sufferings of others I think this is a problem.
To make the world perhaps even just a little bit better, even at some sacrifice to myself I started the Kongo Zen movement to raise people with the ability to act effectively who would take up the struggle for the same goal. You should all read the first page of the Shorinji Kempo Kyohan once more. From what motivations the Kongo Zen movement was begun, and to what purpose we pursue it are all written down there? Through my experiences in war, I discovered a way to approach life as a human being. To this way of living I have dedicated my life.
It's not about loss and profit.
(At the Instructors Seminar, October 1969)
