A good fighter must sense rather than perceive his chance to strike.
Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.
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.
Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.
There's so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?
The timeless moment. - The "moment" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.
You need emotional content.
Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation.
To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing.
Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.
The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease.
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.
Boards don't hit back.
Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.
You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.
Do not run away; let go. Do not seek; for it will come when least expected.
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.
Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.
Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.
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.
Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.
For the last years now I've had my own academy where I train Brazilian Jujitsu and Tae boxing, Muay Thai everyday.
From form to formless and from finite to infinite
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.
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.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.
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.
What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become.
I'm gonna see 'Mission Impossible' Part 9 because I like Tom Cruise movies! But just because the box office has that one receipt from the ticket I purchased, doesn't mean it represents someone who liked it.
Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing.
If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.
What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.
Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Success is not in reaching the destination, but in making the journey.
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.
The More we value things, the less we value ourselves
Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.
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.
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.
All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.
To tolerate is to insult.
Belts are only good for holding up your pants
Take what's useful, discard what is not.
Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed.
Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?
What can you take from me which is not already yours?
If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.
To live is to express oneself freely
Low aim, not failure, is the crime.
What Is, is more important than What Should Be.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
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.
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.
