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Bakudai (Japanese meaning, "enormous; immense; vast") is a belief system that puts its emphasis on belief itself and nothing else. Unconventionally approaching Belief in its simplest form as to avoid rituals, ceremonies, and other practices that can interfer with the essence of Self-Development (Enlightenment). In its unique design an individual can maintain their religious status while applying the concepts of Bakudai into their daily lives. Centered around one simple concept called, Vershin Novem. Translated as, "Nine Vows" is a set of rules, laws or just guidlines for those who want to live a harmonious life amongst those who do not. The main goal of a disciple is to achieve Universal Harmony by becoming Vitakai, or Universal Warrior. This however does not have to literally mean one who fights in a war. It is seen that there is a constant "war" within ourselves every day. Bakudai teaches how to quiet those "demons" and merely help one another to become an enlightened being. Service to others and community is the only way recognized to effectively accomplish this. Disciples are stressed to obtain the highest level of awareness as to be able to teach and guide others (leading by example) how to be Certious towards each other. It is witnessed as such: if everyone is helping one another or keeping others in mind as well as themselves, then there is no one just thinking of themselves. This will eliminate all sorts of problems witnessed in our current cultural way of existing. In its entirety, Bakudai is sectioned into three parts: 1)Mental Development, 2)Physical Development, and 3)Spiritual Development. Structured so that the individual progresses at their own rate and not forced to catch up to or wait for others.  This eliminates the feeling of needing to compete with others.  Instead it allows the individual to compete against themselves and use the accomplishments of others as mere refferences.  Which eventually erases the need to possess an overbearing ego.  Each cycle of learning that the disciple comes across will open a door to short-enlightment or a piece of it.  Like a puzzle, it's only when you know what you are looking for that you can begin to see everything in its entirety for what it is, not what the individual wants to make it appear as.

Vershin Novem
Each and every part can be taken in its shortest and simplest form or in its complex fully expressed form. The short-form are the initial vows that a disciple adheres to on a constant basis in their daily lives. The complex version includes the actual codes of life that are drilled, observed, demonstrated and witnessed by a disciple. This could be from physical contribution, observation of others interractions, and/or examples presented by a teacher. The texts can be taken both literal and metamorphical. They possess a passive part as well as an active part. This gives the individual the absolute freedom to maintain harmony as they see the following poem: "Know that a Greater Power exists and [that] Power is nothing without Control. Communicate Truth and enter ALL as a blank canvass.  Follow your Feelings, but let your Mind guide you.  A Witness is just as guilty as the Oppressor; make the Right things happen.  Construct Peace and Destroy War.  Always remember that Commitment is ETERNAL."