Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.
A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself.
Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.
Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.
A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.
Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strange confidence.
Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot
In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup.
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.
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.
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.
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