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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.

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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.

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We Do Not Become. We Simply Are.

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Reality Is Apparent When One Ceases To Compare.

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A Good Teacher Protects His Pupils From His Own Influence.

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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.

'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'.

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

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

A Powerful Athlete Is Not A Strong Athlete, But One Who Can Exert His Strength Quickly. Since Power Equals Force Times Speed, If The Athlete Learns To Make Faster Movements He Increases His Power, Even Though The Contractile Pulling Strength Of His Muscles Remains Unchanged. Thus, A Smaller Man Who Can Swing Faster May Hit As Hard Or As Far As The Heavier Man Who Swings Slowly.

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.

Efficiency Is Anything That Scores.

I Refer To My Hands, Feet And Body As The Tools Of The Trade. The Hands And Feet Must Be Sharpened And Improved Daily To Be Efficient.

From Form To Formless And From Finite To Infinite

The Essence Of Fighting Is The Art Of Moving At The Right Time.

Art Lives Where Absolute Freedom Is, Because Where It Is Not, There Can Be No Creativity.

Absolute Freedom

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 Beings On Earth That Are Structurally Different From Us, There Can Be No Different Style Of Fighting. Why Is That? Because We Have Two Hands And Two Legs. ... Because Of Styles, People Are Separated. They Are Not United Together Because Styles Become Law.

Remember, Life Is A Journey, Not A Destination.

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.

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Concentration Is The Root Of All The Higher Abilities In Man.

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

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

It Is Not What Happens That Is Success Or Failure, But What It Does To The Heart Of Man.

Only The Self-sufficient Stand Alone - Most People Follow The Crowd And Imitate.

Genius: The Capacity To See And To Express What Is Simple, Simply!

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

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

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

Here I Am As A Human Being...how Can I Express Myself, Totally And Completely?

Every Man Today Is The Result Of His Thoughts Yesterday.

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.

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

One Great Cause Of Failure Is Lack Of Concentration.

Do Not Run Away; Let Go. Do Not Seek; For It Will Come When Least Expected.

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

All Knowledge Leads To Self-knowledge.

The Great Mistake Is To Anticipate The Outcome Of The Engagement; You Ought Not To Be Thinking Of Whether It Ends In Victory Or Defeat. Let Nature Take Its Course, And Your Tools Will Strike At The Right Moment.

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

Ideas Are The Beginning Of All Achievement.

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

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

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If You Knew You Had To Fight For Your Life Tomorrow, Would You Change Your Training Today?

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

All Types Of Knowledge, Ultimately Mean Self Knowledge.

Pessimism Blunts The Tools You Need To Succeed.

The Deluded Mind Is The Mind Affectively Burdened By Intellect. Thus, It Cannot Move Without Stopping And Reflecting On Itself. This Obstructs Its Native Fluidity.

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

Preparation For Tomorrow Is Hard Work Today.

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Get Maximum Effect From Minimum Effort.

Real Living Is Living For Others.

Flow In The Living Moment - We Are Always In A Process Of Becoming And Nothing Is Fixed.

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.

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.

Zen Is Not “attained” By Mirror-wiping Mediation, But By “self-forgetfulness In The Existential 'present' Of Life Here And Now.” We Do Not “come”, We “are.” Don't Strive To Become, But Be.

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

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

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.

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

Be A Calm Beholder Of What Is Happening Around You.

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 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

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.

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.

The Idea Is That Flowing Water Never Goes Stale, So Just Keep On Flowing.

The More Relaxed The Muscles Are, The More Energy Can Flow Through The Body. Using Muscular Tensions To Try To 'do' The Punch Or Attempting To Use Brute Force To Knock Someone Over Will Only Work To Opposite Effect.

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.

Willing Is Not Enough, One Must Apply.

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

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

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

Evaluation By Others Is Not A Guide For Me.

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.

A Good Martial Artist Does Not Become Tend But Ready, Not Thinking But Jet Not Dreaming. Ready For Whatever May Come.

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

Life Is Too Short

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.

Any Technique, However Worthy And Desirable, Becomes A Disease When The Mind Is Obsessed With It.

Don't Ignore The Five Senses In Search Of A Sixth.

Live A Life Worth Remembering.

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

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