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It Is Not A Shame To Be Knocked Down By Other People. The Important Thing Is To Ask When You're Being Knocked Down, 'why Am I Being Knocked Down?' If A Person Can Reflect In This Way, Then There Is Hope For This Person.

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It Is Not A Shame To Be Knocked Down By Other People. The Important Thing Is To Ask When You're Being Knocked Down, 'why Am I Being Knocked Down?' If A Person Can Reflect In This Way, Then There Is Hope For This Person.

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The Ideal Is Unnatural Naturalness, Or Natural Unnaturalness. I Mean It Is A Combination Of Both. I Mean Here Is Natural Instinct And Here Is Control. You Are To Combine The Two In Harmony. Not If You Have One To The Extreme, You'll Be Very Unscientific. If You Have Another To The Extreme, You Become, All Of A Sudden, A Mechanical Man No Longer A Human Being. It Is A Successful Combination Of Both. That Way It Is A Process Of Continuing Growth.

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

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

Observe What Is With Undivided Awareness.

When You Fight, If It Is A Real Fight, Use Every Tool That You Have, Use Your Whole Body. Use Your Fists, Your Legs, Your Fingers, Your Head If You Have To, And Hit Them In Every Vulnerable Spot, The Balls, The Eyes Etc. To Win.

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 Meaning Of Life Is That It Is To Be Lived, And It Is Not To Be Traded And Conceptualized And Squeezed Into A Patter Of Systems.

Meaning Of Life

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It Is The Man That Has Nothing To Lose Or Is Willing To Lose Everything To Beat You That I Am Afraid Of. If A Man Is Willing To Lose His Life To Bite Off My Nose Then I Don't Care How Good I Am Or What I Do To Him- He's Gonna Get My Nose.

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.

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

A Self-willed Man Obeys A Different Law, The One Law I, Too, Hold Absolutely Sacred The Human Law In Himself, His Own Individual Will.

Empty Your Mind, Be Formless. Shapeless, Like Water. If You Put Water Into A Cup, It Becomes The Cup. You Put Water Into A Bottle And It Becomes The Bottle. You Put It In A Teapot It Becomes The Teapot. Now, Water Can Flow Or It Can Crash. Be Water, My Friend.

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

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