One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

There is "what is" only when there is no comparing and to live with "what is" is to be peaceful.

Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible.