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Bushindo “The Teachings” Is Your Empowered Life System
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Empowered Life System
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The 8 Secret Powers of the Ancient Warrior Masters
What the ancient masters trained every day, and modern martial arts forgot. Claim your free guide and start training the powers behind the techniques.
- 1Warrior Presence
- 2Life Force Mastery
- 3Body Mastery
- 4The Awakened Mind
- 5Weapon as Extension
- 6Sensory Refinement
- 7Spiritual Alignment
- 8Integration & Harmony
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One Complete System
Body. Mind. Spirit. Mastered as One.
Bushindo University has offered many budo martial arts (Ninjutsu, Budo Taijutsu, DeCuerdas Eskrima, Bushindo Sword), Personal Empowerment Training, Spiritual Awakening Methods, and Optimal Life Teachings worldwide for over 30 years in the form of privates, seminars, dojos, websites, home study courses and online training.
Doshi Richard Van Donk has now integrated all these teachings into his one complete Empower Yourself system. Richard deeply started on the path at age 19 looking for one complete life living system: a system that one could live all the principles and have the most awesome life possible. That took him on a vast search all over the globe studying with many masters in the fields of Body-Mind-Spirit to mastery level in them (see Bio).
The Bushindo Empowered Life System utilizes the best of all these teachings of ancient, modern and futuristic.
The Teachings
The 9 Gates of Power
The Optimal Goal in life, besides living it joyfully, is to live as long as possible in the most empowered way possible.
Sennin Jin: Free Empowered Being
Ninjas of old practiced a secret art called Senninjutsu. The art of Empowerment and even Immortality. Nath Yogi Sadhus train in empowerment practices called Siddhis that open energy and channels in the body that bring about an ultimate body, awakened mind, psychic abilities and longevity (there are 16 and a black belt was used for each power). Shamans around the world also use these practices, Tibetan Tulku, Chinese Daoist priests. So did the Ninja of old, and now you join that Teaching.
Realize That There Is a Master Inside You
We share the tools for you to do your own awakening to the truth that already lies within you. Only you can take your journey of self discovery. And a map from those that have been in the territory is very useful.
Sourcing Life
We find God in everything: flowers, sunsets, a child’s face. The Teachings call that Sourcing. The more that you resonate with the divine the more beautiful your life becomes. We support all spiritual paths and share source connection practices that have been used for thousands of years.
Be Vibrantly Healthy
Energy is a dimension of time and determines the quality of your existence. There are many factors that determine your vibrational field including what you put into the body in the form of substance, mental thoughts and even the breath that you breathe. It is how you breathe that is perhaps even most important and vital to your life.
Expand Your Consciousness
Quality of Life is about becoming more aware in each moment and having belief systems that allow for an expansiveness of your consciousness versus a contraction. It is time to think about what you do want versus what you don’t want.
Loving Relationships
The most important relationship you will ever have is with you. When it gets right on the inside it will get right on the outside, and not until then. When you are happy everyone, including you, wants to be around you. You attract what you vibrate.
Know Your True Power
Awaken yourself to your highest potential. Immortality or becoming a Shaman may not be your goal, but I am sure that you want more strength, clarity of mind and a powerful presence of being. Be who you are. Learn how to do what you love. Learn what your purpose is in this life and how to fulfill it.
Awakened Mind
Knowing the science of how your mind actually works will give you the empowerment to control or direct your thoughts, or turn them off at will, so that you can make clear decisions or know peace.
Integrated Being
The ultimate goal of Bushindo’s Teachings is for you to own yourself fully, to empower yourself mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally. Then become a fully integrated human being living to the ultimate of your capacity, manifesting in every way the lifestyle you choose to live. A master of your life.
A Lifetime Quest
Ancient Wisdom. Modern Mastery.
Doshi Richard Van Donk traveled the world to South America, India, Egypt, England, Ireland, Japan, China and Tibet seeking knowledge on ancient wisdom from the masters of various traditions, read several thousand books and manuscripts, received a multitude of initiations into sacred traditions and has now integrated all these teachings into his one complete Empower Yourself system.
This was after becoming a master trainer in NLP so he could model their knowledge, and he has also deeply studied modern enlightenment technologies. The Bushindo Empowered Life System utilizes the best of all these teachings of ancient, modern and futuristic.
“Always have the courage to live what you love and to love what you live.”
Train Online at Bushindo University
The Bushindo Empowerment Courses
Every course now lives at Bushindo University. Train on your computer, phone or tablet, anywhere, anytime.
Empower Yourself: “The Teachings”
The Siddhis, the art the Ninja of old called Senninjutsu: practices that bring about an ultimate body, awakened mind and longevity.
Get the Free Guide →Martial Arts Unlimited
Ninja, Sword, the grappling arts of Budo Taijutsu or the fast moving blade arts of Eskrima. We teach martial arts as a way of empowerment, with self and others protection second to none.
Explore the Arts →Optimal Life Course
Black Belt in Life Training. A living system, a path to living the greatness of who you are.
See the Life Mastery System →Sword Mastery Course
Over 11 hours of edited video in our members-only Sword Portal, with never-before-released footage from years of Sword Seminars.
Enter the Sword Course →Living the Spiritual Path
Awaken yourself. Connect to the divine light within you, with source connection practices used for thousands of years.
Begin the Path →Body Rejuvenation
Ancient, time-proven methods of energizing your body, lengthening and strengthening muscles, expanding your breath and soothing your nervous system.
Rejuvenate Daily →Teachers Training Course
There is an art of how to pass on knowledge. Our Shidoshi, “Teacher of the Warrior Ways to Enlightenment,” gives you the mindset and knowledge to share what you love with others.
Become a Teacher →Private Session with Doshi
Personal coaching and mentoring, one on one with Doshi Richard Van Donk, online or in person.
Book a Session →University Store
Get your study materials, DVDs, books and related gear here.
Enter the Store →What Bushindo Means
The Way of the Empowered Warrior
Warrior
One who has the courage to transcend fear, to be resolved in times of challenge, demonstrate peace while being able to protect peace.
Empowered
Depending how the kanji is written this can be read as Heart, Mind, Truth, or Highest Aspect of God. We use the kanji for ‘heart’ because the heart is the center of all the teachings. We begin here and end here in the jeweled heart.
Way or Path
Way or Path of the Bushin (Warrior with heart). Do in Japanese (Dao or Tao in Chinese) also means willful clarity of mindful purpose and directing of the divine will.
The Vision
The Empowered Warrior Training Temple
We are in the process of seeking funding for an Ancient Style Empowered Warrior Path training facility, nestled in the mountains with running creeks, where Doshi Richard Van Donk can teach teachers who will teach teachers to better enlighten the world to a better way of living together.
A beautiful Chinese style temple will be built in the woods with rainbow waterfalls and lush Japanese gardens gracing the entrance. Once inside you know you have entered a sacred sanctuary and feel changed just by the experience of being here.
Your Teachers
Meet Doshi & Shihan Linda Van Donk
Doshi Richard Van Donk
Grandmaster and founder of Bushindo University and the International Bujinkan Dojo Association. A perpetual student of life, teaching worldwide for over 30 years.
Read His Biography →Shihan Linda Van Donk
“Endless Good Comes in Endless Ways.” Senior teacher in Ninjutsu, DeCuerdas Eskrima and the spiritual arts.
Read Her Biography →What Others Say
Our Desire Is to Inspire
“It is very satisfying to have finally found a martial way which emphasizes mental & spiritual development as well as the physical. You have found in me a student for life!”
Timothy
Park, OH
“My words cannot describe the experience, feeling and growth this has given me. I am grateful for your generosity & abundant love.”
Tim Fitch
Montana
“You have a wonderful system: all the techniques are in harmony. Master, your control in close fighting is extraordinary.”
Erdogan Senol
Turkey
Your Path Starts With One Step
Live the Empowered Life.
Take the first step today. Get the free guide, or walk straight into Bushindo University and choose your course.
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