The most reputable martial arts masters who have written about or taught their specialization have claimed that bujutsu was (and is still considered to be) something more than merely a variety of practical and effective methods of combat or self- defense.  They indicate that these are "ways' or disciplines of moral advancement intended to further the formation of a mature, balanced, and integrated personality, of a man at peace with himself and in harmony with his social as well as his natural environment. 

Thus, when martial specializations are taught also as disciplines with an end or purpose of a more educational or ethical nature, "technique" or "Jutsu" becomes "way" or "do," meaning path toward a spiritual rather than a purely practical achievement . Budo then, is more specifically related to the spiritual domain.  Do, in fact, is generally translated as "way" (that is, the way of seeing, of understanding, and of motivating behavior in the philosophical or spiritual sense)."