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The characters/ideograms mean, “Martial virtues.” The first two characters/ideograms mean, “Budo; martial arts; military arts; Bushido.” The second two characters/ideograms mean, “Bitoku; virtue.” The first character means, “Warrior; military; chivalry; arms,” the second character means, “Road-way; street; district; journey; course; moral; teachings,” the third character means, “beauty; beautiful,” the fourth character means, “benevolence; virtue; goodness; commanding respect.”
Martial virtues is about the development of a military oriented virtue, i.e., goodness, righteousness, morality, integrity, dignity, honor, decency, respectability, worthiness, purity, etc., that drive the use of violent conflict to solve socially driven issues between differing nations. This drives down toward a more personal or person-to-person combative method that comes from the same set of virtues.
Budo Bitoku, martial virtues, is about those more esoteric fundamental principles of martial systems whereby things like moral turpitude is combated so that the power of martial disciplines are not set to violate such virtues as righteousness, morality and integrity. It is about making the dangerous and often destructive forces of martial disciplines to be directed toward a more virtuous and righteous, etc. direction.
If we fail to instill budo bitoku into the spirit of the martial practitioner then were merely provide another human predator with the combative tools to use against others. The only way to combat such depravity of a system like martial arts is to train our practitioners toward a budo bitoku or martial virtuous way of practice, training and, most important, application of martial arts.
It is the hope through the integration of all fundamental principles of martial systems we provide character development through wisdom, courage and compassion that budo bitoku that is the essence and corner stone of all martial disciplines.
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