Too much horsing around with unrealistic stances and classic forms and rituals is just too artificial and mechanical, and doesn't really prepare the student for actual combat. A guy could get clobbered while getting into this classical mess. Classical methods like these, which I consider a form of paralysis, only solidify and constrain what was once fluid. Their practitioners are merely blindly rehearsing routines and stunts that will lead nowhere.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.

Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen.

The deluded mind is the mind affectively burdened by intellect. Thus, it cannot move without stopping and reflecting on itself. This obstructs its native fluidity.

Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

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