The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

We do not become. We simply are.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

I am not teaching you anything. I just help you to explore yourself.