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"In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand."
"The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body's action and master your will more easily."
"Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."
"Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
"A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
"Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other."
"Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact."
"The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing."
"All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge."
"We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create"
"Observe what is with undivided awareness."
"Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain"
"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity."
"Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us."
"A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."
"Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick."
"Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points."
"Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end."
"I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself."
"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."