Hong Kong Quotes

Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

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.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.

A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

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.

It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

What is true stillness? Stillness in 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.

Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation.

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.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

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.

My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.

We do not become. We simply are.

Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself.

Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.

Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed.

Willing is not enough, one must apply.

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.

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

Running water never grows stale.

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.

We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

To reach me, you must move to me. Your attack offers me an opportunity to intercept you.

I'm a philosophy major. That means I can think deep thoughts about being unemployed.

There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

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.

A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.

When we suddenly awake to the realization that there is no barrier, and never has been, one realizes that one is all things mountains, rivers, grasses, trees, sun, moon, stars, universe are all oneself. There is no longer a division or barrier between myself and others, no longer any feeling of alienation or fear there is nothing apart from oneself and therefore nothing to fear. Realizing this results in true compassion. Other people and things are not seen as apart from oneself but, on the contrary, as one's own body.

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

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.

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.

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.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

A kung fu man who was really good was not proud at all. Pride emphasizes the superiority of one's status. There has to be fear and insecurity in pride, because when you aim at being highly esteemed and achieve such status, you automatically start to worry about losing status.

Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.

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.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare.

To change with change is the changeless state

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.

Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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.

As you think, so shall you become.

Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.