In the Kouryou Kai, we generally refer to the teachings within collectively as "The Way". This is not original, of course, but is actually what I was taught to call what I was learning as a child. The reason is that it's not a set pattern or order, or even a set teaching. Nothing within it is static and unchanging. We are always evolving, but not with the world around us. We adapt to the surrounding world, but our evolution is a personal one for the order and for each individual within. The Kouryou Kai is not something that makes us who we are. Instead, it becomes what it is from those who are within it.
So to describe the Way best would be to say that it is everything and nothing. Ballance and chaos. Beauty and ugliness. The light within the darkness, and the darkness within the light.
The Way is found within one's own self, for we are each the micrcosm that reflects the macrocosm of the universe. To know the world, look at the world within.
Those who make it into the Kouryou Kai are the ones who live the Way. The training is not some inconvenience that must be done, but rather the highlight of every day. The members have worked hard at moving up through the training and perfecting their own skills. It isn't about occasionally making it to a building for practice. We meet in different locations all the time, and every student is expected to traing every single day.
We are Warrior Philosophers. The Way is the natural order of the universe, and we are not only part of the universe, but even reflections of the whole. The Earth is the birthing mother, and the universe is the source of the Earth. For this reason, we must learn to connect with all the elements and the forces of the universe. In doing so, one no longer follows the Way... they become it.
I am everywhere, and I am nowhere.
I am everything, and I am nothing.
Everything that happens does because I will it so.
I am the Way, and the Way is me.
