To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

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

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

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

The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?

when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is.