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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!

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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!

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The More Complicated And Restricted The Method, The Less Opportunity For Expression Of One's Original Sense Of Freedom.

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

Practice All Movements Slow And Fast, Soft And Hard; The Effectiveness Of Jeet Kune-do Depends On Split-second Timing And Reflexive Action, Which Can Be Achieved Only Through Repetitious Practice.

Do Not Deny The Classical Approach, Simply As A Reaction, Or You Will Have Created Another Pattern And Trapped Yourself There.

To Me, Racial Barriers Do Not Exist In Reality. If I Say That 'everyone Under The Sun Is A Member Of A Universal Family,' You May Think That I Am Bluffing And Being Idealistic. But If Anyone Still Believes In Racial Differences, I Think He Is Too Backward And Narrow In His Perspective. Perhaps He Still Does Not Understand Man's Equality And Love.

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

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

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

Where There Is No Style, There Is No Slave. Martial Arts Mean Honestly Expressing Yourself. No Style. No Slave.

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

It's The Law Of Averages: Put In More, Come Out With More.

Law Of Averages

Success Means Doing Something Sincerely And Wholeheartedly.

To Tolerate Is To Insult.

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

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

Martial Arts Inspirational

Defeat Is A State Of Mind; No One Is Ever Defeated Until Defeat Has Been Accepted As A Reality.

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

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

Choose The Positive. You Have Choice, You Are Master Of Your Attitude, Choose The Positive, The Constructive. Optimism Is A Faith That Leads To Success.

Positive Thinking

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.

Open Yourself And Flow, My Friend. Flow In The Total Openness Of The Living Moment.

‎the Successful Warrior Is The Average Man, With Laser-like Focus.

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.

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.

Emotion Can Be The Enemy, If You Give Into Your Emotion, You Lose Yourself. You Must Be At One With Your Emotion, Because The Body Always Follows The Mind.

Take No Thought Of Who Is Right Or Wrong Or Who Is Better Than. Be Not For Or Against.

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

You Will Never Learn Anything New Unless You Are Ready To Accept Yourself With Your Limitations. You Must Accept The Fact That You Are Capable In Some Directions And Limited In Others, And You Must Develop Your Capabilities.

Accepting Yourself

Meditation Means To Be Free From All Phenomena And Calmness Means To Be Internally Unperturbed. There Will Be Calmness When One Is Free From External Objects And Is Not Perturbed.

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

Evaluation By Others Is Not A Guide For Me.

The Key To Immortality Is First Living A Life Worth Remembering.

The Best Form Of Endurance Exercise Is The Performance Of The Event.

Your State Of Mind Is Everything.

The Athlete Who Is Building Muscles Though Weight Training Should Be Very Sure To Work Adequately On Speed And Flexibility At The Same Time. In Combat, Without The Prior Attributes, A Strong Man Will Be Like The Bull With Its Colossal Strength Futilely Pursuing The Matador Or Like A Low-geared Truck Chasing A Rabbit.

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.

What Is True Stillness? Stillness In Movement.

If You Always Put Limit On Everything You Do, Physical Or Anything Else. It Will Spread Into Your Work And Into Your Life. There Are No Limits. There Are Only Plateaus, And You Must Not Stay There, You Must Go Beyond Them.

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.

If There Is Always Light, You Don’t Experience Light Anymore. You Have To Have The Rhythm Of Light And Darkness.

Mistakes Are Always Forgivable, If One Has The Courage To Admit Them.

Taoist Philosophy Is Essentially Monistic. Matter And Energy, Yang And Yin, Heaven And Earth, Are Conceived Of As Essentially One Or As Two Coexistent Poles Of One Indivisible Whole.

No Matter What, You Must Let Your Inner Light Guide You Out Of The Darkness.

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

The Change Is From Inner To Outer. We Start By Dissolving Our Attitude Not By Altering Outer Conditions.

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

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

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.

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

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

You Need Emotional Content.

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.

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.

The Western Approach To Reality Is Mostly Through Theory, And Theory Begins By Denying Reality - To Talk About Reality, To Go Around Reality, To Catch Anything That Attracts Our Sense-intellect And Abstract It Away From Reality Itself. Thus Philosophy Begins By Saying That The Outside World Is Not A Basic Fact, That Its Existence Can Be Doubted And That Every Proposition In Which The Reality Of The Outside World Is Affirmed Is Not An Evident Proposition But One That Needs To Be Divided, Dissected And Analyzed. It Is To Stand Consciously Aside And Try To Square A Circle.

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.

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

An Instructor Should Exemplify The Things He Seeks To Teach. It Will Be Of Great Advantage If You Yourself Can Do All You Ask Of Your Students And More.

Understanding Comes About Through Feeling, From Moment To Moment In The Mirror Of Relationship.

Remember, Life Is A Journey, Not A Destination.

Real Living Is Living For Others.

Running Water Never Grows Stale.

We Do Not Become. We Simply Are.

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

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

You Must Have Complete Determination. The Worst Opponent You Can Come Across Is One Whose Aim Has Become An Obsession.

With Every Adversity Comes A Blessing Because A Shock Acts As A Reminder To Oneself That We Must Not Get Stale In Routine.

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

Be Like Water, My Friend.

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

It Is Easy For Me To Put On A Show And Be Cocky..but To Express Oneself Honestly Not Lying To Oneself, Now That My Friend Is Very Hard To Do

Self-conquest Is The Greatest Of Victories. Mighty Is He Who Conquers Himself.

Things Live By Moving And Gain Strength As They Go.

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In Order To Control Myself I Must First Accept Myself By Going With And Not Against My Nature.

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Seek Freedom From The Conformity Of Styles

Truth Cannot Be Structured Or Confined.

Art Is The Way To The Absolute And To The Essence Of Human Life. The Aim Of Art Is Not The One-sided Promotion Of Spirit, Soul And Senses, But The Opening Of All Human Capacities – Thought, Feeling, Will – To The Life Rhythm Of The World Of Nature. So Will The Voiceless Voice Be Heard And The Self Be Brought Into Harmony With It.

Faith Is A State Of Mind That Can Be Conditioned Through Self-discipline. Faith Will Accomplish.

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

Express Yourself

Do Not Pray For An Easy Life, Pray For The Strength To Endure A Difficult One

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I'm Not In This World To Live Up To Your Expectations And You're Not In This World To Live Up To Mine.

A Person Cannot Forget Someone Who Is Good To Them.

Forgetting Someone

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

Self Evaluation

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.

You Cannot Force The Now. — But Can You Neither Condemn Nor Justify And Yet Be Extraordinarily Alive As You Walk On? You Can Never Invite The Wind, But You Must Leave The Window Open.

Persistence, Persistence, And Persistence. The Power Can Be Created And Maintained Through Daily Practice - Continuous Effort.

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.

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

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

Freedom Of Expression

Life Is Better Lived Than Conceptualized. — This Writing Can Be Less Demanding Should I Allow Myself To Indulge In The Usual Manipulating Game Of Role Creation. Fortunately For Me, My Self-knowledge Has Transcended That And I’ve Come To Understand That Life Is Best To Be Lived — Not To Be Conceptualized. If You Have To Think, You Still Do Not Understand.

Always Be Yourself, Express Yourself, Have Faith In Yourself, Do Not Go Out And Look For A Successful Personality And Duplicate It.

Knowledge Will Give You Power, But Character Respect.

Every Man Today Is The Result Of His Thoughts Yesterday.

From Form To Formless And From Finite To Infinite

The Man Who Is Really Serious, With The Urge To Find Out What Truth Is, Has No Style At All. He Lives Only In What Is.

Time Means A Lot To Me Because, You See, I, Too, Am Also A Learner And Am Often Lost In The Joy Of Forever Developing And Simplifying. If You Love Life, Don't Waste Time, For Time Is What Life Is Made Up Of.

The Poorer We Are Inwardly, The More We Try To Enrich Ourselves Outwardly.

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

Self-will Seems To Be The Only Virtue That Takes No Account Of Man-made Laws.

A Quality Martial Artist Is Always Ready For Any Move, And Trains Oneself Invincible.

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 Create Opportunities.

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

Meaning Of Life

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.

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.

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

Sincere Thought Means Thought Of Concentration (quiet Awareness). The Thought Of A Distracted Mind Cannot Be Sincere

Loneliness Is Only An Opportunity To Cut Adrift And Find Yourself. In Solitude You Are Least Alone.

Are You Going To Let The Obstacles In Your Life Be Stumbling Blocks Or Stepping Stones? Choose The Positive. You Are The Master Of Your Attitude.

To Tell The Truth, I Could Beat Anybody In The World.

Telling The Truth

The Happiness That Is Derived From Excitement Is Like A Brilliant Fire- Soon It Will Go Out.

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

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.

Empty Your Mind, Be Formless, Shapeless - Like Water.

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.

Belts Are Only Good For Holding Up Your Pants

While It May Come As A Profound Surprise To Those Of Us Who Are In The Throes Of An Emotional Or Life Crisis, The Fact Remains That The Answer To Virtually All Of Our Problems Resides Within Us Already. It Exist In The Form Of A Vast Reservoir Of Free-flowing Energy That, When Channeled To Our Muscles, Can Give Us Great Strength And, When Channeled To Our Brain, Can Give Us Great Insight And Understanding.

Make At Least One Definite Move Daily Toward Your Goal.

The Attitude, 'you Can Win If You Want To Badly Enough,' Means That The Will To Win Is Constant. No Amount Of Punishment, No Amount Of Effort, No Condition Is Too 'tough' To Take In Order To Win. Such An Attitude Can Be Developed Only If Winning Is Closely Tied To The Practitioner's Ideals And Dreams.

My Style? You Can Call It The Art Of Fighting Without Fighting.

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.

A Good Martial Artist Does Not Become Tense, But Ready.

The Consciousness Of Self Is The Greatest Hindrance To The Proper Execution Of All Physical Action.

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

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.

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

The Possession Of Anything Begins In The Mind.

The Unfolding Of The Bare Human Soul...that Is What Interests Me.

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.

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.

If One Loves, One Need Not Have An Ideology Of Love.

A Man Strikes You, Make Him Bleed. He Makes You Bleed, You Break His Bones. He Breaks Your Bones, Kill Him. Being Hit Is Inevitable, Strike Back Twice As Hard.

Be A Calm Beholder Of What Is Happening Around You.

After All, All Knowledge Simply Means Self-knowledge.

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.

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.

Jeet Kune Do Does Not Beat Around The Bush. It Does Not Take Winding Detours. It Follows A Straight Line To The Objective. Simplicity Is The Shortest Distance Between Two Points.

The Success Of An Assailant's Attack Depends On Surprise, And If You're Sufficiently Alert To Prevent A Surprise, Your Counterattack Is Already Halfway To Being Successful.

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

When One Is Not Expressing Himself, He Is Not Free. Thus, He Begins To Struggle And The Struggle Breeds Methodical Routine. Soon, He Is Doing His Methodical Routine As Response Rather Than Responding To What Is.

We Have Great Work Ahead Of Us, And It Needs Devotion And Much, Much Energy. To Grow, To Discover, We Need Involvement.

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.

Long-term Consistency Trumps Short-term Intensity.

There Are Too Many Stars And Too Few Actors.

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.

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.

When You Say That Something Is Impossible, You Have Made It Impossible.

A Goal Is Not Always Meant To Be Reached, It Often Serves Simply As Something To Aim At.

Art Calls For Complete Mastery Of Techniques, Developed By Reflection Within The Soul.

Defeat Is Not Defeat Unless Accepted As A Reality-in Your Own Mind.

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.

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

What Comes After Victory? Why Do People Value Victory So Much? What Is 'glory'? What Kind Of Victory Is 'glorious'?

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

Take Inventory Of Everyone With Whom You Have Contact.

Everything You Do, If Not In A Relaxed State Will Be Done At A Lesser Level Than You Are Proficient. Thus The Tensed Expert Marksman Will Aim At A Level Less Than His/her Student.

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.

If People Say Jeet Kune Do Is Different From This Or From That, Then Let The Name Of Jeet Kune Do Be Wiped Out, For That Is What It Is, Just A Name. Please Don't Fuss Over It.

To Take Responsibility For One's Own Actions, Good And Bad, Is Something Else.

Taking Responsibility

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.

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

I Believe In Teaching Just A Few Students, As Teaching Requires A Constant Alert Observation On Each Individual In Order To Establish A Direct Relationship. A Good Teacher Cannot Be Fixed In A Routine, And Many Are Just That. During Teaching, Each Moment Requires A Sensitive Mind That Is Constantly Changing And Constantly Adapting.

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.

Turn Your Sparring Into Play - But Always Play Seriously.

An Intelligent Mind Is An Inquiring Mind. It Is Not Satisfied With Explanation, With Conclusions. Nor Is It A Mind That Believes, Because Belief Is Again Another Form Of Conclusion.

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.

Before I Studied The Art, A Punch To Me Was Just Like A Punch, A Kick Just Like A Kick. After I Learned The Art, A Punch Was No Longer A Punch, A Kick No Longer A Kick. Now That I've Understood The Art, A Punch Is Just Like A Punch, A Kick Just Like A Kick. The Height Of Cultivation Is Really Nothing Special. It Is Merely Simplicity; The Ability To Express The Utmost With The Minimum.

The World Is Full Of People Who Are Determined To Be Somebody Or To Give Trouble. They Want To Get Ahead, To Stand Out. Such Ambition Has No Use For A Gung Fu Man, Who Rejects All Forms Of Self-assertiveness And Competition

In Buddhism, There Is No Place For Using Effort. Just Be Ordinary And Nothing Special. Eat Your Food, Move Your Bowels, Pass Water And When You're Tired Go And Lie Down. The Ignorant Will Laugh At Me, But The Wise Will Understand.

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.

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!

Everybody Has To Think For Himself. A Right Way For A Big Man May Not Be A Right Way For A Small Man. A Right Way For Someone Who Is Slow May Not Be A Right Way For Someone Who Is Quick. Each Person Must Understand His Weaknesses And His Strengths.

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.

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.

Either Push Your Limits Or Die.

One Does Not Accumulate But Eliminate. It Is Not Daily Increase But Daily Decrease. The Height Of Cultivation Always Runs To Simplicity.

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.

Never Waste Energy On Worries Or Negative Thoughts, All Problems Are Brought Into Existence -drop Them.

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

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

The Past Is An Illusion. You Must Learn To Live In The Present And Accept Yourself For What You Are Now. What You Lack In Flexibility And Agility You Must Make Up With Knowledge And Constant Practice.

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

For It Is Easy To Criticize And Break Down The Spirit Of Others, But To Know Yourself Takes A Lifetime.

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.

Martial Arts, Like Any Art, Is An Unrestricted Athletic Expression Of An Individual Soul.

The Now Is Indivisible. Completeness, The Now, Is An Absence Of The Conscious Mind To Strive To Divide That Which Is Indivisible. For Once The Completeness Of Things Is Taken Apart It Is No Longer Complete.

The Truth Is Outside Of All Fixed Patterns.

False Teachers Of The Way Of Life Use Flowery Words.

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

Simplicity Is The Key To Brilliance.

Inspirational Life

The Less Effort, The Faster And More Powerful You Will Be.

Motivational Sports

To Contemplate A Thing Implies Maintaining Oneself Outside It, Resolved To Keep A Distance Between It And Ourselves.

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.

Remember No Man Is Really Defeated Unless He Is Discouraged.

Efficiency Is Anything That Scores.

Ideas Are The Beginning Of All Achievement.

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