Learn these precepts for mastering the art, contemplate them and understand them.

1. Free yourself from the bonds of self-limitation. One cannot develop one's own potential when trapped by self-limitation. However, remember that pain is a warning, be careful with your body when training, don't do anything that is destructive to it.
2. Never depend on others for your own improvement.
3. Cultivate your mind and your body - believe in yourself.
4. Remember that the art is the struggle against the conflict within oneself. This conflict can only be overcome through hard training, self-discipline and your own efforts.
5. Shinseido cannot be understood by looking at it. It must be worked upon from the inside. It is not an intellectual game. Training in the dojo is for developing practical skills not for talking idly.
6. Nobody has mastered Shinseido, for it is the total mastery of body and spirit which is its aim. It is necessary then, to pursue the training with tenacity in order to approach the ideal.
7. It is not the quantity or external beauty of the technique that is important, but the internal quality.
8. In each practise, it is important to try to discover something new, and to have the impression that one has found more than in the last practise.
9. It is important that your teachers are not just pleased to see you, but have respect for your efforts and intentions.
10. It is necessary to re-discover the child like purity of the past, and add to it, the strength and speed of an adult.
11. It is important that you don't make the training an obsession. It is far better to train a little every day with sincerity, then develop your other faculties for the rest of the time, because this is also a part of the art.