To take responsibility for one’s own actions, good and bad, is something else.
Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself – to be is to be related.
Satori – in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one’s own being – these are synonymous.
The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve.
Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I’ll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.
To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.
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.
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.
Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.
To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.
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.
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.
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your art.
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?
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.
Let yourself go with dis-ease, be with it, and keep it company. This is the way to be rid of it.
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled.
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!
Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
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.