PHILOSOPHY

The Kyokushin philosophy is based on the rigid discipline of the practitioner's acts, on the understanding of the limitations of companions and opponents, on the respect to parents and superiors, and on the loyalty to its ideals.
The practitioner of kyokushin must not measure efforts to improve himself and must not compare himself with the less favoured to justify his failings.
Must not only know, but also to practice all his knowledge.
Learning kyokushin requires 1000 days, but to understand all its essence, at least 10000 days are required.
Who opts for kyokushin must have the strenght to surpass any obstacle, without change of mind, until he reaches his objective.
A good example for the practitioner is to follow is the tea-kettle with water:

When the fire heats the water to the boiling point, we have to keep it lighted with the same intensity, because if we reduce its flame, the water gets cold. It is not enought to boil the water , We have to keep it boiling all the time.

A WORD BY MAS OYAMA

"My own victories were the determinant factor of the propagation and the reputation of Karate. I keep a unique record of victories over pugilists, fighters, judokas and thai-boxers .Won in bare hands furious bulls.I keep convinced that while I can use the Karate, I'm invincible in a non-armed conflict...
A man can't know the real nature of the martial arts if he doesn't experience real combat.To earn the name "Karateca", he has to find and to overcome real danger...
I'm probably the only leader of the japanese Karate from after the war to have faced the death so many times. That's why, I've been denigrated by false karatecas pacifists who don't know anything about real combat.How should we judge the instructors of some kind of a dance of Karate, who transmit to their students the technics and the spirit of combat when they have never been in real combat ?
The essence of Karate is in the combat".

MAS OYAMA