The mind is like a fertile garden in which anything that is planted, flowers or weeds, will grow.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged.

To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.

The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning.

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.