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Do Not Allow Negative Thoughts To Enter Your Mind For They Are The Weeds That Strange Confidence.

As You Think, You Shall Become

The Truth Is Outside Of All Fixed Patterns.

A Teacher Is Never A Giver Of Truth; He Is A Guide, A Pointer To The Truth That Each Student Must Find For Himself.

Practice Makes Perfect. After A Long Time Of Practicing, Our Work Will Become Natural, Skillfull, Swift, And Steady.

To Be Honest To Oneself, And That Is Very Hard To Do.

Take What's Useful, Discard What Is Not.

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To Become A Champion Requires A Good Mental Attitude Toward Preparation. You Have To Accept The Most Tedious Task With Pleasure.

Styles Tend To Not Only Separate Men - Because They Have Their Own Doctrines And Then The Doctrine Became The Gospel Truth That You Cannot Change. But If You Do Not Have A Style, If You Just Say: Well, Here I Am As A Human Being, How Can I Express Myself Totally And Completely? Now, That Way You Won't Create A Style, Because Style Is A Crystallization . That Way, It's A Process Of Continuing Growth.

Man, The Living Creature, The Creating Individual, Is Always More Important Than Any Established Style Or System.

What You Habitually Think Largely Determines What You Will Ultimately Become.

There Is No Mystery About My Style. My Movements Are Simple, Direct And Non-classical. The Extraordinary Part Of It Lies In Its Simplicity. Every Movement In Jeet Kune-do Is Being So Of Itself. There Is Nothing Artificial About It. I Always Believe That The Easy Way Is The Right Way.

I Have Come To Understand That Life Is Best To Be Lived And Not To Be Conceptualized. I Am Happy Because I Am Growing Daily And I Am Honestly Not Knowing Where The Limit Lies.

It's Not The Daily Increase But Daily Decrease. Hack Away At The Unessential.

Success Is Not In Reaching The Destination, But In Making The Journey.

Make At Least One Definite Move Daily Toward Your Goal.

Never Take Your Eyes Off Your Opponent, Even When You Bow.

Moving, Be Like Water. Still, Be Like A Mirror. Respond Like An Echo.

A Self-willed Man Has No Other Aim Than His Own Growth.

We Should Devote Ourselves To Being Self-sufficient And Must Not Depend Upon The External Ratings By Others For Our Happiness.

Knowledge Will Give You Power, But Character Respect.

A Fight Is Not Won By One Punch Or Kick. Either Learn To Endure Or Hire A Bodyguard.

My Strength Comes From My Abdomen. It's The Center Of Gravity And The Source Of Real Power.

Be Self Aware, Rather Than A Repetitious Robot

We Are Told That Talent Creates Opportunity, Yet It Is Desire That Creates Talent.

All Martial Art Is Simply An Honest Expression Of One's Body — With A Lot Of Deception In Between.

Like Everyone Else, You Want To Learn The Way To Win, But Never To Accept The Way To Lose - To Accept Defeat. To Learn To Die Is To Be Liberated From It. So When Tomorrow Comes You Must Free Your Ambitious Mind And Learn The Art Of Dying!

If You Don't Want To Slip Up Tomorrow, Speak The Truth Today.

Believe Me That In Every Big Thing Or Achievement There Are Always Obstacles-big Or Small- And The Reaction One Shows To Such Obstacles Is What Counts, Not The Obstacle Itself.

More And More I Believe In The Fact That You Have Two Hands And Two Legs, And The Thing Is How To Make Good Use Of Yourself - And That's About It.

The Past Is No More; The Future Not Yet. Nothing Exists Except The Here And Now. Our Grand Business Is Not To See What Lies Dimly At A Distance, But To Do What Lies Clearly At Our Hands.

Fear Comes From Uncertainty; We Can Eliminate The Fear Within Us When We Know Ourselves Better. As The Great Sun Tzu Said: “when You Know Yourself And Your Opponent, You Will Win Every Time. When You Know Yourself But Not Your Opponent, You Will Win One And Lose One. However, When You Do Not Know Yourself Or Your Opponent, You Will Be Imperiled Every Time.

All Goals Apart From The Means Are Illusions; Becoming Is A Denial Of Being.

Absorb What Is Useful, Discard What Is Not, Add What Is Uniquely Your Own.

If You Think A Thing Is Impossible,you'll Only Make It Impossible.

I'm Moving And Not Moving At All. I'm Like The Moon Underneath The Waves That Ever Go On Rolling And Rocking. It Is Not, "i Am Doing This," But Rather, An Inner Realization That "this Is Happening Through Me," Or "it Is Doing This For Me." The Consciousness Of Self Is The Greatest Hindrance To The Proper Execution Of All Physical Action.

Because One Does Not Want To Be Disturbed, To Be Made Uncertain, He Establishes A Pattern Of Conduct, Of Thought, A Pattern Of Relationships To Man. He Then Becomes A Slave To The Pattern And Takes The Pattern To Be The Real Thing.

Water Can Flow, Or It Can Crash. Be Water, My Friend.

Remember, You Are Expressing The Techniques And Not Doing The Techniques.

A Good Martial Artist Does Not Become Tense, But Ready. Not Thinking, Yet Not Dreaming. Ready For Whatever May Come. When The Opponent Expands, I Contract; And When He Contracts, I Expand. And When There Is An Opportunity, "i" Do Not Hit, "it" Hits All By Itself.

It Is True That The Mental Aspect Of Kung-fu Is The Desired End; However, To Achieve This End, Technical Skill Must Come First.

To Be Certain, Every Day There Can Be A Revelation Or A New Discovery.

I Am Learning To Understand Rather Than Immediately Judge Or To Be Judged.

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You Know What I Want To Think Of Myself? As A Human Being. Because, I Mean I Don't Want To Be Like "as Confucius Say," But Under The Sky, Under The Heavens There Is But One Family. It Just So Happens Man That People Are Different.

Remember, Success Is A Journey Not A Destination. Have Faith In Your Ability. You Will Do Just Fine.

You Must Have Complete Determination. The Worst Opponent You Can Come Across Is One Whose Aim Has Become An Obsession. For Instance, If A Man Has Decided That He Is Going To Bite Off Your Nose No Matter What Happens To Him In The Process, The Chances Are He Will Succeed In Doing It. He May Be Severely Beaten Up, Too, But That Will Not Stop Him From Carrying Out His Objective. That Is The Real Fighter.

When You Point To The Moon, What Do You See In Front Of Your Finger; Your Task Is To Feel, Not To Think, When You Can Understand That The Lesson Will Be Learned.

The Primary Reality Is Not What I Think, But That I Live, For Those Also Live Who Do Not Think.

If You Want To Learn To Swim You Have To Throw Yourself In The Water.

Understanding Requires Not Just A Moment Of Perception, But A Continuous Awareness, A Continuous State Of Inquiry Without Conclusion

Cease Negative Mental Chattering. If You Think A Thing Is Impossible, You'll Make It Impossible. Pessimism Blunts The Tools You Need To Succeed.

People Try To Hold Onto The Sameness. This Holding Onto Prevents Growth.

True Observation Begins When Devoid Of Set Patterns; Freedom Of Expression Occurs When One Is Beyond System.

Freedom Of Expression

The Three Most Difficult Things In Life Are: 1. To Keep A Secret. 2. To Forget An Injury. 3. To Make Good Use Of Leisure.

Life Itself Is Your Teacher, And You Are In A State Of Constant Learning.

In Building A Statue, A Sculptor Doesn't Keep Adding Clay To His Subject. Actually, He Keeps Chiseling Away At The Nonessentials Until The Truth Of His Creation Is Revealed Without Obstruction.

I Have The Absolute Confidence Not To Be Number Two, But Then I Have Enough Sense To Realize That There Can Be No Number One.

The Most Important Thing To Me Is, How, In The Process Of Learning How To Use My Body, Can I Come To Understand Myself ?

What Is, Is More Important Than What Should Be.

I Don't Believe In Different Ways Of Fighting Now. I Mean, Unless Human Beings Have 3 Arms And 3 Legs, Then We Will Have A Different Way Of Fighting. But Basically We All Have Two Arms And Two Legs So That Is Why I Believe There Should Be Only One Way Of Fighting And That Is No Way.

Turn Your Sparring Into Play - But Always Play Seriously.

Forget About Winning And Losing, Forget About Pride And Pain

Be Like Water, My Friend.

Obey The Principles Without Being Bound By Them.

To See Is To Be Decieved. To Hear Is To Be Lied To. To Feel Is To Believe.

Anxiety Is The Gap Between The Now And The Then. So If You Are In The Now, You Can't Be Anxious, Because Your Excitement Flows Immediately Into Ongoing Spontaneous Activity.

Efficiency Is Anything That Scores.

To Develop The Creative Attitude, Analyze And Focus On The Wanted Solution; Seek Out And Fill Your Mind With The Facts; Write Down Ideas, Both Sensible And Seemingly Wild; Let The Facts And Ideas Simmer In Your Mind; Evaluate, Recheck, Settle On The Creative Ideas.

Before Me Now There Is Only One Real Fact -- Death. The Truth I Have Been Seeking -- This Truth Is Death. Yet Death Is Also A Seeker. Forever Seeking Me. So -- We Have Met At Last. And I Am Prepared. I Am At Peace. Because I Will Conquer Death With Death.

A Quick Temper Will Make A Fool Of You Soon Enough.

A Good Teacher Protects His Pupils From His Own Influence.

Ever Since I Was A Child I Have Had This Instinctive Urge For Expansion And Growth.

Independent Inquiry Is Needed In Your Search For Truth, Not Dependence On Anyone Else's View Or A Mere Book.

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Training For Strength And Flexibility Is A Must. You Must Use It To Support Your Techniques. Techniques Alone Are No Good If You Don't Support Them With Strength And Flexibility.

If I Should Die Tomorrow, I Will Have No Regrets. I Did What I Wanted To Do. You Can't Expect More From Life.

Take Inventory Of Everyone With Whom You Have Contact.

If Nothing Within You Stays Rigid, Outward Things Will Disclose Themselves. Moving, Be Like Water. Still, Be Like A Mirror. Respond Like An Echo.

Understand Your Limitations And Capitalize On Them.

Ever Since I Was A Child I Have Had This Instinctive Urge For Expansion And Growth. To Me, The Function And Duty Of A Quality Human Being Is The Sincere And Honest Development Of One's Potential.

When One Has No Form, One Can Be All Forms.

There Are No Limits. There Are Only Plateaus, And You Must Not Stay There, You Must Go Beyond Them.

You Have To Create Your Own Luck. You Have To Be Aware Of The Opportunities Around You And Take Advantage Of Them.

Life Is Never Stagnation. It Is Constant Movement, Un-rhythmic Movement, As We As Constant Change. Things Live By Moving And Gain Strength As They Go.

The Height Of Cultivation Always Runs To Simplicity ... The Ability To Express The Utmost With The Minimum. It Is The Halfway Cultivation That Leads To Ornamentation.

Remember My Friend To Enjoy Your Planning As Well As Your Accomplishment, For Life Is Too Short For Negative Energy.

Life Is Too Short

It Is Better To Live As A Broken Piece Of Jade, Than To Live As A Useless Clay.

Man, He Is Constantly Growing And When He Is Bound By A Set Pattern Of Ideas Or Way Of Doing Things, That's When He Stops Growing

Don't Fear Failure. Not Failure, But Low Aim, Is The Crime. In Great Attempts It Is Glorious Even To Fail.

We Have More Faith In What We Imitate Than In What We Create

The Intangible Represents The Real Power Of The Universe. It Is The Seed Of The Tangible.

Learn It All, Then Forget It All.

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Let Nature Take Its Course And Your Tools Will Strike At The Right Moment.

We Have Great Work Ahead Of Us, And It Needs Devotion And Much, Much Energy. To Grow, To Discover, We Need Involvement, Which Is Something I Experience Every Day - Sometimes Good, Sometimes Frustrating. No Matter What, You Must Let Your Inner Light Guide You Out Of The Darkness.

One Will Never Get Any More Than He Thinks He Can Get. You Have What It Takes. Look Back And See Your Progress - Damn The Torpedo, Full Speed Ahead!

Since Life Is An Ever Evolving Process, One Should Flow In This Process And Discover How To Actualize And Expand Oneself.

As Long As We Separate This Oneness Into Two We Won't Achieve Realization.

Ultimately The Greatest Help Is Self-help.

He Who Wants To Succeed Should Learn How To Fight, To Strive And To Suffer. You Can Acquire A Lot In Life, If You Are Prepared To Give Up A Lot To Get It.

To Me Defeat In Anything Is Merely Temporary. Defeat Simply Tells Me That Something Is Wrong In My Doing; It Is A Path Leading To Success And Truth.

Temporary Defeat

After All, All Knowledge Simply Means Self-knowledge.

Since Weight Training Involves Repetitions, A Great Deal Of Energy Must Be Exerted. Therefore, Weight Training Should Be Practiced Only Every Other Day.

The Mind Is Like A Fertile Garden In Which Anything That Is Planted, Flowers Or Weeds, Will Grow.

It Is Useless To Try To Stir The Dirt Out Of The Muddy Water, As It Will Become Murkier. But Leave It Alone, And If It Should Be Cleared; It Will Become Clear By Itself.

There Are No Limits. If It Kills You, It Kills You. A Man Must Constantly Exceed His Level.

Observe What Is With Undivided Awareness.

Nowadays You Don't Go Around On The Street Kicking People, Punching People - Because If You Do (makes Gun Shape With Hand), Well That's It - I Don't Care How Good You Are.

Success Means Doing Something Sincerely And Wholeheartedly.

I Hope Martial Artists Are More Interested In The Root Of Martial Arts And Not The Different Decorative Branches, Flowers Or Leaves.

The Doubters Said, "man Can Not Fly," The Doers Said, "maybe, But We'll Try," And Finally Soared In The Morning Glow While Non-believers Watched From Below.

You Must Be Shapeless, Formless, Like Water. When You Pour Water In A Cup, It Becomes The Cup.

When You're Talking About Fighting, As It Is, With No Rules, Well Then, Baby You'd Better Train Every Part Of Your Body!

Get Maximum Effect From Minimum Effort.

A Martial Artist Has To Take Responsibility For Himself And Accept The Consequences Of His Own Doing.

If I Tell You I'm Good, Probably You Will Say I'm Boasting. But If I Tell You I'm Not Good, You'll Know I'm Lying.

The Meaning Of Life Is That It Is To Be Lived.

Meaning Of Life

Like The Cobra, You Remain Coiled In A Loose But Compact Position And Your Strike Should Be Felt Before It Is Seen.

I Did What I Came Here To Do. What I've Done I've Done With Sincerity And To The Best Of My Ability. You Can't Expect Much More From Life.

Awareness Is Without Choice, Without Demand, Without Anxiety; In That State Of Mind, There Is Perception.

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.

If Every Man Would Help His Neighbor, No Man Would Be Without Help.

All Types Of Knowledge, Ultimately Mean Self Knowledge.

Faith Makes It Possible To Achieve That Which Man's Mind Can Conceive And Believe.

True Refinement Seeks Simplicity.

Humility Forms The Basis Of Honor, Just As The Low Ground Forms The Foundation Of A High Elevation.

I Wish Neither To Possess Nor To Be Possessed. I No Longer Covet 'paradise'. More Important, I No Longer Fear 'hell'. The Medicine For My Suffering I Had Within Me From The Very Beginning But I Did Not Take It. My Ailment Came From Within Myself, But I Did Not Observe It, Until This Moment. Now I See That I Will Never Find The Light Unless, Like The Candle, I Am My Own Fuel, Consuming Myself.

I Hope Martial Artists Are More Interested In The Root Of Martial Arts And Not The Different Decorative Branches, Flowers Or Leaves. It Is Futile To Argue As To Which Leaf, Which Design Of Branches, Or Which Attractive Flower You Like; When You Understand The Root, You Understand All Its Blossoming.

The More We Value Things, The Less We Value Ourselves

You Will Never Get Any More Out Of This Life Than You Expect.

Flow In The Living Moment. — We Are Always In A Process Of Becoming And Nothing Is Fixed. Have No Rigid System In You, And You’ll Be Flexible To Change With The Ever Changing. Open Yourself And Flow, My Friend. Flow In The Total Openness Of The Living Moment. If Nothing Within You Stays Rigid, Outward Things Will Disclose Themselves. Moving, Be Like Water. Still, Be Like A Mirror. Respond Like An Echo.

To Me, The Extraordinary Aspect Of Martial Arts Lies In Its Simplicity. The Easy Way Is Also The Right Way, And Martial Arts Is Nothing At All Special; The Closer To The True Way Of Martial Arts, The Less Wastage Of Expression There Is.

In Order To Taste My Cup Of Water You Must First Empty Your Cup.

People Fear What They Do Not Understand.

There Is "what Is" Only When There Is No Comparing And To Live With "what Is" Is To Be Peaceful.

You And Your Opponent Are One. There Is A Coexisting Relationship Between You. You Coexist With Your Opponent And Become His Complement, Absorbing His Attack And Using His Force To Overcome Him.

To Understand Your Fear Is The Beginning Of Really Seeing.

If There Is A God, He Is Within. You Don't Ask God To Give You Things, You Depend On God For Your Inner Theme.

If There Is A God

Forget About Winning And Losing; Forget About Pride And Pain. Let Your Opponent Graze Your Skin And You Smash Into His Flesh; Let Him Smash Into Your Flesh And You Fracture His Bones; Let Him Fracture Your Bones And You Take His Life! Do Not Be Concerned With Escaping Safely- Lay Your Life Before Him!!

To Live Is To Express, And To Express You Have To Create. Creation Is Never Merely Repetition. To Live Is To Express Oneself Freely In Creation.

The Second-hand Artist Blindly Following His Sensei Or Sifu Accepts His Pattern. As A Result, His Action Is And , More Importantly, His Thinking Become Mechanical. His Responses Become Automatic, According To Set Patterns, Making Him Narrow And Limited.

Success Only Means Doing Something Sincerely And Wholeheartedly. I Think Life Is A Process. Through The Ages, The End Of Heroes Is The Same As Ordinary Men. They All Died And Gradually Faded Away In The Memory Of Man. But When We Are Still Alive, We Have To Understand Ourselves, Discover Ourselves And Express Ourselves. In This Way, We Can Progress, But We May Not Be Successful.

Learning Is Never Cumulative, It Is A Movement Of Knowing Which Has No Beginning And No End.

To Live Is To Express Oneself Freely

Recognizing That The Power Of Will Is The Supreme Court Over All Other Departments Of My Mind, I Will Exercise Daily When I Need The Urge To Act For Any Purpose; And I Will Form Habits Designed To Bring The Power Of My Will Into Action At Least Once Daily.

Every Morning Like A Scholar At His First Class I Prepare A Blank Mind For The Day To Write Upon.

I Am Not Teaching You Anything. I Just Help You To Explore Yourself.

Don't Be Forecasting Evil Unless It Is What You Can Guard Against. Anxiety Is Good For Nothing If We Can't Turn It Into A Defense.

Every Man Today Is The Result Of His Thoughts Yesterday.

Optimism Is A Faith That Leads To Success.

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I Create Opportunities.

Jeet Kune Do Favors Formlessness So That It Can Assume All Forms And Since Jeet Kune Do Has No Style, It Can Fit In With All Styles. As A Result, Jeet Kune Do Utilizes All Ways And Is Bound By None And, Likewise, Uses Any Techniques Which Serve Its End.

Self-knowledge Is The Basis Of Jeet Kune Do Because It Is Effective Not Only For The Individual's Martial Art But Also For His Life As A Human Being.

Let Yourself Go With Dis-ease, Be With It, And Keep It Company. This Is The Way To Be Rid Of It.

The Principle Of Martial Arts Is Not A Thing That Can Be Learned, Like A Science, By Fact-finding And Instruction In Facts. It Has To Grow Spontaneously, Like A Flower, In A Mind Free From Emotions And Desires.

Concepts Vs. Self-actualization. - Instead Of Dedicating Your Life To Actualize A Concept Of What You Should Be Like, Actualize Yourself. The Process Of Maturing Does Not Mean To Become A Captive Of Conceptualization. It Is To Come To The Realization Of What Lies In Our Innermost Selves.

I Am Not Afraid Of A Person Who Knows 10000 Kicks. But I Am Afraid Of A Person Who Knows One Kick But Practices It For 10000 Times.

I Have Always Been A Martial Artist By Choice, An Actor By Profession, But Above All, Am Actualising Myself To Be An Artist Of Life.

Maturation Is The Development From Environmental Support To Self-support.

Dedication, Absolute Dedication, Is What Keeps One Ahead. A Sort Of Indomitable Obsessive Dedication And The Realization That There Is No End Or Limit To This Because Life Is Simply An Ever-growing Process, An Ever-renewing Process.

The Knowledge And Skills You Have Achieved Are Meant To Be Forgotten So You Can Float Comfortably In Emptiness, Without Obstruction.

Using No Way As A Way, Having No Limitation As Limitation.

Do Not Have An Attitude, Open Yourself And Focus Yourself And Express Yourself. Reject External Form That Fails To Express Internal Reality.

If You Make An Ass Out Of Yourself, There Will Always Be Someone To Ride You.

There Are Lots Of Guys Around The World That Are Lazy. They Have Big Fat Guts. They Talk About Chi Power And Things They Can Do, But Don't Believe It.

There Is No Such Thing As Maturity. There Is Instead An Ever-evolving Process Of Maturing. Because When There Is A Maturity, There Is A Conclusion And A Cessation. That’s The End. That’s When The Coffin Is Closed. You Might Be Deteriorating Physically In The Long Process Of Aging, But Your Personal Process Of Daily Discovery Is Ongoing. You Continue To Learn More And More About Yourself Every Day.

A Good Fighter Must Sense Rather Than Perceive His Chance To Strike.

In Order To Realize Our True Self We Must Be Willing To Live Without Being Dependent Upon The Opinion Of Others.

To Me, Ultimately, Martial Arts Means Honestly Expressing Yourself. Now, It Is Very Difficult To Do. It Has Always Been Very Easy For Me To Put On A Show And Be Cocky, And Be Flooded With A Cocky Feeling And Feel Pretty Cool And All That. I Can Make All Kinds Of Phoney Things. Blinded By It. Or I Can Show Some Really Fancy Movement. But To Experience Oneself Honestly, Not Lying To Oneself, And To Express Myself Honestly, Now That Is Very Hard To Do.

Not Being Tense But Ready. Not Thinking But Not Dreaming. Not Being Set But Flexible. Liberation From The Uneasy Sense Of Confinement. It Is Being Wholly And Quietly Alive, Aware And Alert, Ready For Whatever May Come.

Know The Difference Between A Catastrophe And An Inconvenience. - To Realize That It's Just An Inconvenience, That It Is Not A Catastrophe, But Just An Unpleasantness, Is Part Of Coming Into Your Own, Part Of Waking Up.

Your State Of Mind Is Everything.

What Can You Take From Me Which Is Not Already Yours?

Relationship Is The Mirror In Which You Discover Yourself - To Be Is To Be Related.

Self Evaluation

When Finger Point At Moon, Don't Look At Finger Or You'll Miss The Moon.

I Treasure The Memory Of The Past Misfortunes. It Has Added More To My Bank Of Fortitude.

Knowledge , Surely, Is Always Of Time , Whereas Knowing Is Not Of Time. Knowledge Is From A Source, From Accumulation, From Conclusion, While Knowing Is A Movement.

'what Is' Is More Important Than 'what Should Be.' Too Many People Are Looking At 'what Is' From A Position Of Thinking 'what Should Be'.

Bring The Mind Into Sharp Focus And Make It Alert So That It Can Immediately Intuit Truth, Which Is Everywhere. The Mind Must Be Emancipated From Old Habits, Prejudices, Restrictive Thought Processes And Even Ordinary Thought Itself.

Good Technique Includes Quick Changes, Great Variety And Speed. It May Be A System Of Reversals Much Like A Concept Of God And The Devil. In The Speed Of Events, Which One Is Really In Charge? Do They Change Places With Lightning Speed? The Chinese Believe So. To Put The Heart Of The Martial Arts In Your Own Heart And Have It Be A Part Of You Means Total Comprehension.

Sorrows Are Our Best Educator. A Man Can See Further Through A Tear Than A Telescope.

When You Feel Pain, You Know That You Are Still Alive.

Learn The Principle, Abide By The Principle, And Dissolve The Principle. In Short, Enter A Mold Without Being Caged In It. Obey The Principle Without Being Bound By It. Learn, Master, And Achieve.

Through My Own Observations. I Am Convinced That An Absolutely Honest And Direct Inquiry Into Oneself Will Lead To Understanding.

Empty Your Cup So That It May Be Filled; Become Devoid To Gain Totality.

To Me, Ultimately, Martial Arts Means Honestly Expressing Yourself.

Express Yourself

The Core Of Understanding Lies In The Individual Mind, And Until That Is Touched Everything Is Uncertain And Superficial. Truth Cannot Be Perceived Until We Come To Fully Understand Our Potential And Ourselves. After All, Knowledge In The Martial Arts Ultimately Means Self-knowledge.

What We Are After Is The Root And Not The Branches. The Root Is The Real Knowledge; The Branches Are Surface Knowledge. Real Knowledge Breeds 'body Feel' And Personal Expression; Surface Knowledge Breeds Mechanical Conditioning And Imposing Limitation And Squelches Creativity.

Fluidity Is The Way To An Empty Mind. You Must Free Your Ambitious Mind And Learn The Art Of Dying.

From Form To Formless And From Finite To Infinite

Without Frustration You Will Not Discover That You Might Be Able To Do Something On Your Own. We Grow Through Conflict.

Truth Comes When Your Mind And Heart Are Purged Of All Sense Of Striving And You Are No Longer Trying To Become Somebody; It Is There When The Mind Is Very Quiet, Listening Timelessly To Everything.

If You Want To Learn To Swim Jump Into The Water. On Dry Land No Frame Of Mind Is Ever Going To Help You.

You Just Wait. I'm Going To Be The Biggest Chinese Star In The World.

Art Reaches Its Greatest Peak When Devoid Of Self-consciousness. Freedom Discovers Man The Moment He Loses Concern Over What Impression He Is Making Or About To Make.

All Types Of Knowledge Ultimately Lead To Self-knowledge. So, Therefore, These People Are Asking Me To Teach Them, Not So Much How To Defend Themselves Or How To Do Somebody In. Rather, They Want To Learn To Express Themselves Through Some Movement, Be It Anger, Be It Determination Or Whatever. So, In Other Words, They're Paying Me To Show Them, In Combative Form, The Art Of Expressing The Human Body.

To Realize Freedom The Mind Has To Learn To Look At Life, Which Is A Vast Movement, Without The Bondage Of Time , For Freedom Lies Beyond The Field Of Consciousness Care For Watching, But Don't Stop And Interpret "i Am Free," Then You're Living In A Memory Of Something That Has Gone Before.

Though Methods Play An Important Role In The Early Stage, The Techniques Should Not Be Too Mechanical, Complex Or Restrictive. If We Cling Blindly To Them, We Shall Eventually Become Bound By Their Limitations. Remember, You Are Expressing The Techniques And Not Doing The Techniques. If Somebody Attacks You, Your Response Is Not Technique No.1, Stance No. 2, Section 4, Paragraph 5. Instead You Simply Move In Like Sound And Echo, Without Any Deliberation. It Is As Though When I Call You, You Answer Me, Or When I Throw You Something, You Catch It. It's As Simple As That - No Fuss, No Mess.

If You Spend Too Much Time Thinking About A Thing, You'll Never Get It Done.

What Is True Stillness? Stillness In Movement.

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