If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love.
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
I think of myself as a human being.
Having totality means being capable of following "what is," because "what is" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of "what is.
I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.