The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one's original sense of freedom.

Where there is no style, there is no slave. Martial Arts mean honestly expressing yourself. No style. No slave.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

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.

Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.

It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

You need emotional content.