The name Guseikai was created by the late Mr Eiichi Eriguchi, the former Chairman and President of JKF Wadokai. He was inspired by an idea derived from one of the Buddhist scriptures.

The first Guseikai dojo was established by Dr Hideho Takagi in Tokyo, Japan, followed by Bob Nash in Berkeley, California and Norma Foster in Vancouver, Canada.

GU = serendipity, fortuituous circumstance, chance occurance

SEI = becoming

KAI = association

The experience of Karate ought to be enjoyable. It should be about growing and confronting one's limitations; but it should always be done in a spirit mixed filled with fun and enthusiasm. You must have the courage to examine your life and also have the ability to laugh at yourself. Life is too short to waste away in dread and fear. Live life to the fullest, enthusiastically and with a sense of wonderment. The trick is learning how to smile.....

We are a group of people who met by fate, chance, serendipity....

When Death Comes

When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse

to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle pox;

when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,

I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
what is it going to be like, that cottage of darkness?

And therefore I look upon everything
as a brotherhood and a sisterhood,
and I look upon time as no more than an idea,
and I consider eternity as another possibility,

and I think of each life as a flower, as common
as a field daisy, and as singular,

and each name a comfortable music in the mouth
tending as all music does, toward silence,

and each body a lion of courage, and something
precious to the earth.

When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was a bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it's over, I don't want to wonder
if I have made of my life something particular, and real.
I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened
or full of argument.

I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

Mary Oliver