extract: ‘Europeans can only act if they understand the reason why beforehand. Hence the need for a development in the realm of thought. This work may prove interesting because, if Europeans understand, other people will follow.
 […] There is a world of difference between having a map with the water sources marked on it and actually quenching one's thirst there.’

extract: ‘The area in which the West has made its precious contribution to humanity is Evidence. Today, we are in a transition period, the century of uncertainty, in which values solidly entrenched for centuries are being questioned. […]
 Indeed, nothing about the aspects of ki is obvious. When they become obvious, they cease to be ki and fall into categories.’

extract: ‘By choosing this somewhat absurd title, The Science of the Particular, I've unintentionally challenged Aristotle's saying that there is no science but of the general. […]
 And yet a conclusion drawn from general data is of no help when it cornes to knowing exactly what occurs in a particular case, at the very moment when this issue takes on vital importance.’

extract: ‘As a component of society, individuals struggle with structure, whether they like it or not. Can the acquisition of power give them a chance of fulfilment? Over time, only our way of life has changed. All problems remain unchanged, including life and death. No “recipe” can be valid as long as the Individual does not feel alive.’

extract: ‘This awakening is not the result of intellectual speculation or moralising attacks.
 At some point, unexpectedly, the door opens and dialogue begins in silence.’

extract: ‘It is therefore not impossible, even for the civilised man or woman, to break free of the world of rhetoric in which they live and find their true “self”.’

extract: ‘Man has forged a formidable weapon for knowing and conquering Nature: dualism. This tendency leads to contempt for the body, which becomes an external object.
 In these circumstances, is man condemned to become a victim of his own creation, like a sorcerer’s apprentice?
 It is certainly not easy to free oneself from the grip of the past and face the present.
 As for me, I try to direct your attention to the unsuspected wealth of our unconscious being.’

extract: ‘I suspect that The Way of the Gods may cause a departure from the rationalism which prevails in the Western world.’

extract: ‘We apply all kinds of grids to form a judgement. Science is one of them. If we abandon these grids for a moment, we have a better view of what Man really is. Not as he should be, but as he is.
 At the end of the twentieth century, at the dawn of the third millennium, science is presenting a new phase of evolution in flagrant contradiction with the imperatives of nineteenth century rationalism.
 So today we have a much more varied choice of colours on the palette than in the past. As for the picture of life that we are going to paint, it will not be dictated by science or by colours. It is the painter, each one of us, who will decide, and paint the picture.’

In order to pass on his knowledge to people from a culture so different from his own, Itsuo Tsuda found how to develop and present the knowledge he had received from his masters. This is a challenge in which the human being is considered beyond time, place, and tradition. The human being per se, without veils. Life in its many aspects. Itsuo Tsuda wanted to pass on this knowledge through his books and direct teaching: this is why he is considered a master, from an Eastern perspective, of course.