Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Learn it all, then forget it all.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing.