Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.
Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.
To tolerate is to insult.
A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.
Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!
Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result.
I'm not a master. I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning. So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word 'master.' I consider the master as such when they close the casket.
Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.
What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?
Martial arts, like any art, is an unrestricted athletic expression of an individual soul.
A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.
Observe what is with undivided awareness.
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
A man must constantly exceed his level
A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.
The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.
Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy.
What Is, is more important than What Should Be.
Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings.
Running water never grows stale.
You need emotional content.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.
Turn your sparring into play - but always play seriously.
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
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