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Understanding the principles underlying a Zen art is not based on cognitive or intellectual understanding. Rather, it is based on an intuitive awareness of the underlying principles of the Universe as they apply to that particular art. It is a form of Zen insight as it applies to that particular activity. For that reason, Leggett describes the Ways as "fractional expressions of Zen in limited fields."5
Because they are formless, the underlying principles of an art cannot be fully described nor directly taught. The philosophy of teaching in the Zen arts is to teach underlying principles through the repetitive practice of techniques. The techniques of the arts represent formalizations of the masters' understandings of the principles. They can be seen as approximations of the underlying principles. Thus, hassetsu is a set of techniques that are at best approximations of the naturally correct way to shoot an arrow. These techniques can only bring the student to a certain point. Each student ultimately must see into those underlying principles by himself. This can only be done by endless repetition of the eight stages of kyudo. This leads to a deeper explanation of the saying "thousands of repetitions and out of one's true self perfection emerges." In kyudo, as in the other Ways, Zen understanding—discovery of one's true self—comes only through disciplined, repetitious practice.