To cut and slash are two different things. Cutting, whatever form of cutting it is, is decisive, with a resolute spirit. Slashing is nothing more than touching the enemy.

Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.

If the enemy thinks of the mountains, attack like the sea; and if he thinks of the sea, attack like the mountains.

Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.

Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited or over spirited. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.

As if with the nut and flower, the nut has become less than the flower... both those teaching and those learning are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower.