“For example, if you are fearful your mind will freeze, motion will be stopped and you will be defeated. If your mind is fixed on victory or defeating your opponent, you will be unable to function automatically.”
― Zen in the Martial Arts
― Zen in the Martial Arts
“We are like blades of grass or trees of the forest, creations of the universe, of the spirit of the universe, and the spirit of the universe has neither life nor death. Vanity is the only obstacle to life.”
― Zen in the Martial Arts
― Zen in the Martial Arts
“The mind is like a fertile garden,” Bruce said. “It will grow anything you wish to plant—beautiful flowers or weeds. And so it is with successful, healthy thoughts or with negative ones that will, like weeds, strangle and crowd the others. Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.”
― Zen in the Martial Arts
― Zen in the Martial Arts
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.”
― Zen in the Martial Arts
― Zen in the Martial Arts
“I can defeat you physically with or without a reason. But I can only defeat your mind with a reason. —JIM LAU”
― Zen in the Martial Arts
― Zen in the Martial Arts
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