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" An improper attitude inhibits the application of even the most superb
technical skill. The karate man's archenemies are agitation, lack of mental
flexibility and carelessness. ... Since it involves tremendous speed and
great destructive force, karate requires special control. The proper mental
attitude in this case is the one that enables you to manifest maximum power,
to achieve your goal, and to defeat your opponent psychologically. "

- Mas Oyama

" So it is that good warriors take their stand on ground where they cannot
lose, and do not over-look conditions that make an opponent prone to defeat. "

- Sun Tzu

" Because you can win quickly by taking the lead, it is one of the most important
things in strategy. There are several things involved in taking the lead. You must
make the best of the situation, see through your enemy's spirit so that you grasp his
strategy and defeat him. "

- Miyamoto Musashi

" In training do not expect good results in a short time. Karate training may extend
over one's entire life, ... In the study of any subject, little is to be gained from
haphazard training, and thus, particularly in a martial art such as karate, steady,
unremitting training is required. ... Train systematically, without becoming
impatient... Develop gradually, advancing steadily, one step at a time... "

- Gichin Funakoshi

I found a art call: Aiki-verbal. It is a psychological and verbal
self-defense. We use only verbal and non-verbal communication to ends
conflict and psychological violence in Interpersonal and intrapersonal
conflicts. Each time I give a lecture or a seminar in this psychological and
verbal martial art, I start with this short but sweet story.

"A Australian student (my story change in each countries I told it) went to
Japan to ask a great old master to be is student. He ask the old master:
"Please master, Teach me your art of Self-defense".The old master look at
him very carefully and with attention and answer : "Against which Self you
want to defend".

- Sensei Gaetan
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada

" To attain the way ... You must study fully ... And not deviate even a little from the
way. With your spirit settled, accumulate practice day by day, and hour by hour.
Polish the twofold spirit heart and mind, and sharpen the twofold gaze perception and sight... "

- Miyamoto Musashi

" Water alters its form according to the vessel it is in, whether the vessel is square or
round. Water can be one drop, or if gathered together it can become a large sea.
Free flow takes water as a model and your mental attitude should be fluid like water. "

- Miyamoto Musashi

"The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor in defeat but in the perfection of the character of its participants".

- Gichin Funakoshi

" ... It is said if you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a
hundred battles; if you do not know others but know yourself, you will win one and
lose one; if you do not know others and do not know yourself, you will be imperiled in every battle."

- Sun Tzu

" The aim of training reflects the precept expressed by the words - although the
doorway is small, go deeply inward... Once a kata has been learned, it must be
practiced repeatedly until it can be applied in an emergency, for knowledge of just
the sequence of a form in karate is useless. "

- Gichin Funakoshi

" ...Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious.... those who face the unprepared with preparation are victorious. "

- Sun Tzu

" ... Those who win every battle are not really skillful - those who render others' helpless without fighting are the best of all."

- Sun Tzu

" The life of karate is formal practice fighting, without which karate is no more than a game for one person."

- Mas Oyama

" We might call the individual thrusts, blocks, and kicks we have been discussing the alphabet of karate, that is, the individual parts from which karate is made. Karate formal exercises (kata), by combining all these isolated elements and giving them concrete forms, are the spelling that make the words and sentences of the karate alphabet."

- Mas Oyama

" Since olden times, it has been said that the karate grip requires three years to learn, the standing method another three years, and the thrusting method still another three. In other words, making a powerful weapon of the body is the most important of all karate basics. Completely and correctly mastering this basic requires intensive training, and ..., The very act of mastering it is the road to an understanding of karate's inner essence. "

- Mas Oyama

" In ancient times skillful warriors first made themselves invincible, and then watched for vulnerability in their opponents. "

- Sun Tzu

“Success depends upon goals and on diligence in pursuing them.”

- Mas Oyama

“… one thousand days of training, a beginner; ten thousand days of training, a master.”

- Mas Oyama

“Nothing under heaven is more important than teaching. The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.”

- Dr. Jigoro Kano, the Founder of KodoKan Judo

“... The spirit of Kyokushin Karate-do is to fight to overcome oneself, not others.”

- Mas Oyama

" Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby, you can be the director of your opponent's fate. "

- Sun Tzu

"The spiritless spirit is one that is never rigidified in one place. It is the spirit that can be located nowhere. Though spiritless, it is not like a stone or a tree. Should the spirit stop at some place, this means that there is some 'thing' within the spirit. Should it never stop, it contains no 'thing.' One who has attained the spiritless spirit, never being hindered and lacking nothing, is prepared in body to meet whatever circumstances may arrive, as water when struck on the surface will always overflow its container. A spirit that is stopped at one place cannot move freely. Wheels turn because their axle moves freely; they will not turn should that axle become clogged and bound in one place. The spirit, too, will not move freely if it is tied to one 'thing.”

- Gichin Funakoshi

"From ancient times we have been taught many ways to direct the eyes, but the one used at present is to look at the opponent's face, to narrow the eyes more than usual, and to maintain a calm gaze. The eyeballs must not move and should see a nearby opponent as if he were slightly in the distance. Such a gaze permits one to observe the opponents techniques, of course, and also allows one to see what is happening on both sides of one's body. The soldier must always see distant things as if they were close at hand and nearby things as if they were in the distance. He must know about his opponent's sword without actually looking at it."

- Miyamoto Musashi

"A man who has practiced this (Tensho) a thousand times and has a firm grasp of its theory can not only take any attack, but can turn the advantage in any attack and will be able to defend himself perfectly."

- Mas Oyama

"Because the formal exercises were developed by superior karate technicians and teachers after many years..., they are dynamically and physically concerned with the strength and weakness of the body, with the good and bad points of technique... "

- Mas Oyama

"...Although it is true that formal exercise are a most important part of karate, it does not do to neglect the practice fighting and the training in tameshiwari, etc. The way to a truly effective karate is to avoid idleness and practice seriously with the idea that the formal exercise (kata) are fifty percent of your work and the remainder of your training is the other fifty percent."

- Mabuni Kenwa

" In modern Karate contests of today, the competitors are never allowed to actually strike each other for fear of causing serious injury... It is my belief that this type of match takes away a great deal from the very essence or spirit of karate... The two combatants should be permitted to actually strike one another so that the judges and the audiences can clearly see who is winning, and how the match is proceeding. Karate should never be thought of or displayed as a vehicle for public entertainment. Nonetheless, so long as it is performed cleanly and according to the rules of the sport, interested spectators should be allowed to observe karate competitions. This would serve as an excellent way to promote and expand the general public's interest in the sport."

- Mas Oyama

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first...  the lesson afterward."

-Unknown

You may find this interesting...  It is something my old teacher
told me, Saiko Shihan Shigeru Oyama. It was in Quebec City,
(Canada), in one of my dojos, in 1982. I was sitting in a restaurant with
Shihan Shigeru Oyama. I was doing a lot of tournament knockdown in that
time, and we talked of fighting. And Shihan Shigeru Oyama told me that in is
time he never lost a full-contact fight. He ask me : "Do you know why?".

My eyes and ears were fully opened! He had all my interest, I answer : "No, I
don't know". And what he told me, changed my knockdown career. I meditated it
for a long time and to integrate it in my way of life. I'm sure you want
to know it too. Here is answer...

Saiko Shihan Shigeru Oyama : " Each time I fight a real match, I gave my life
to my opponents. Not intellectually, but in my soul, I gave my life to my
opponent. Now, what worse can happen in the fight ? A broken arm or a broken
leg ? What is it compared to a life ? But my opponent, did not want to give
his life, he thinks to his family, his money, his job. I won the fight before
we start... and he lost the fight before we start...".

- Sensei Gaetan
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada

A man who has attained Mastery of an art Reveals it in his every action

-    Samurai maxim

"It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die."

-Unknown

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill.

-    Sun-Tzu

The mind of a perfect man is like a mirror. It grasps nothing. It expects nothing. It reflects but does not hold. Therefore, the perfect man can act without effort.

-    Chung-Tzu

When I left Sosai at the Haneda (old International airport in Japan) his parting words to me were,    " I want you to go with the attitude that you are dying, because if you live this way you will understand the meaning of OSU."

-Shihan Isobe

-quote from Blitz mag

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

-    Bruce Lee

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

-    Bruce Lee

King Husan of Chou heard of Po Kung-i, who was reputed to be the strongest man in his kingdom.The King was dismayed when they met, since Po looked so weak.

When the King asked Po how strong he was, Po said mildly, "I can break the leg of a spring grasshopper and withstand the winds of an autumn cicada."

Aghast, the King thundered, "I can tear rhinoceros leather and drag nine buffaloes by the tail, yet I am shamed by my weakness. How can you be famous?"

Po smiled and answered quietly, "My teacher was Tzu Shang-chi'ui, whose strength was without peer in the world, but even his relatives never knew it because he never used it."

-    Anonymous.

2 of my favorite quotes :

"Don't win after you punch, but punch after you won"

"The way you train is the way you'll fight"

- Sensei Gaetan
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada

"Do not wish to be rare like jade, nor common like stone."

-    unknown

"A bad student can only excel under a good teacher.

A good student can excel whether his teacher is good or bad."

- Rev. Kensho Furuya
- Kodo Ancient Ways

"The hardest thing for the student when he begins training is to throw away all of his preconceived notions and conclusions."

- Kodo Ancient Ways

"Even though one has never offered a single service to the Buddha or made a pilgrimage to a shrine, if his heart is upright and full of compassion, neither the gods, nor Buddha's will look at him amiss."

- Shiba Yoshimasa
- Ideals of the Samurai

"If the domestic duties are duly performed, where is the necessity to go afar to burn incense?"

- Anonymous

"The moral law takes its rise in the relation between men and women, but in its utmost reaches it reigns supreme over Heaven and Earth."

- Confucius

"Only a fool who loves practice can continue his practice for his whole life."

- Rev. Kensho Furuya

- Kodo Ancient Ways

"Knowledge is boundless, but the capacity of one man is limited."

- Anonymous

"No guts, no glory.
No pain, no gain."

-Unknown

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first...  the lesson afterward."

-Unknown

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
It's the life in your years."

-Abraham Lincoln

"Even if a man is bad, how can it be right to cast him off?"

- Lao Tze

"In martial arts cultivation, there must be a sense of freedom. A conditioned mind is never a free mind. Conditioning limits a person within the framework of a particular system."

- Bruce Lee
- The Tao of Jeet Kune Do

"Like the clear stream, we must go with the flow."

- Rev. Kensho Furuya
- Kodo Ancient Ways

"What man shall dare to oppose him whose words are consistent with reason, and whose actions are squared by the rule of rectitude?"

- Anonymous

"Always leave the space of a natural step between your feet. By doing so, you a braced and never standing on just one point."

- Bruce Lee
- The Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Don't forget, as someone once said:

"Wise men make proverbs, fools repeat them"

"One who is conscious of his strength and yet is content to be weak shall be the paragon of mankind. And being the paragon of mankind, virtue will never desert him. He will return to the state of a little child."

- Lao Tze

"It is not difficult to trim and hack off the non-essentials in outward physical structure; however, to shun away, to minimize inwardly is another matter."
- Bruce Lee
- The Tao of Jeet Kune Do

"If you think you cannot do it, then you cannot. If you think you can, seek deeply, and you will always find a way"

- Ashihara Webpage

"Knowledge is only potential power! Action AND knowledge is power!"

- Unknown

Confuscioue Say -

" If you aim at nothing...

you are sure to hit it... "

"There's always a way - if you're committed"

- Anthony Robbins

"It is the mind that maketh good or ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor."

- Edmund Spenser

I seek not to know the answers,

but to understand the questions.

- Caine

To know is not what is important to us. Even to learn is not so important.

What is important is to study.

- The Sage

From the unreal lead me to the real;

From darkness lead me to the light!

From death lead me to immortality!

-Brihad-aranyaka Upanishad

There is a tale among us, a legend persevered by the old tellers from the farthest distance of our past...

It is said that upon the edge of the Earth at the end of time stands a lone man who holds the meaning of it all...

It is said that he has mastered all skill and prowess that we desire, all restraint and calm, and has become perfection - passion and mastery like unto the poised grandeur of mountains.

And it is said, should ever one of us seek him out... and contest with him, we will learn the measure of our worth, in defeat or triumph.

Therefore are we a seeking people. In the heart among us beats a yearning for this test and the knowledge it offers.

Yet the path which leads to him is unknown, has never been known. It is said that this path must not be known - that it may only be found by one who knows without knowledge and has not come seeking the thing he seeks.

You are that one.

-S.R. Donaldson, 'The One Tree'

The creative works sublime success,

Furthering through perseverance.

- I Ching

Patience, Strength, Fortitude.

- Sifu Kan Yuen

How is it you hear these things?    :Grasshopper

How is it you do not?    :Master Po

- Kung Fu (TV series)

I had the Thunderbird on my back who was one with me;

I could change into the Coyote if I had to;

I had the Rattlesnake coiled around my arm;

I could see through the eyes of the Eagle.

- an Indian lore

Difficulty at the Beginning works supreme success.

- I Ching

"The dark is dissolved by the penetrating light. The gentle wind disperses the gathering clouds, leaving the sky clear and serene. The tiny soft roots of the wood pierce the hardest rock, breaking up those dark intrigues which shun the light of day. All the while, the whispering music of the wind, and the gradual uncurling of the leaves produce tranquility and peace, appearing soft, gentle, unthreatening. The results of gentle penetration by the wind are less striking then the effect of aggressive force, but more enduring and more complete."

- I Ching

The Gentle, penetrating;

Wind and wood.

Success through what is small.

- I Ching

Holding Together brings good fortune. Those who are uncertain gladly join. Whoever comes too late, Meets with misfortune.

- I Ching

He who knows he has enough is rich. To die but not to perish Is to be eternally present.

One must know when to stop.

- Lao Tzu

The Turning Point.

It furthers one to have someplace to go...

- I Ching

Tie two birds together;

Though they have four wings, They cannot fly.

- Ah Sahm

"One of the convenient things about martial arts mastery is that really dangerous fighters rarely feel they have to prove it to you."

- David Carradine

Mastering others requires force;

Mastering the self requires enlightenment.

- Lao Tzu

A Journey of a thousand miles Starts under one's feet.

- Lao Tzu

"Even though one has never offered a single service to the Buddha or made a pilgrimage to a shrine, if his heart is upright and full of compassion, neither the gods, nor Buddha's will look at him amiss."
- Shiba Yoshimasa
- Ideals of the Samurai

"If the domestic duties are duly performed, where is the necessity to go afar to burn incense?"
- Anonymous

"The moral law takes its rise in the relation between men and women, but in its utmost reaches it reigns supreme over Heaven and Earth."
- Confucius

"Only a fool who loves practice can continue his practice for his whole life."
- Rev. Kensho Furuya

- Kodo Ancient Ways

"The hardest thing for the student when he begins training is to throw away all of his preconceived notions and conclusions."
- Kodo Ancient Ways

"Knowledge is boundless, but the capacity of one man is limited."
- Anonymous

U.S. Army Special Forces:
The Green Berets

Murphy's Laws of Combat

• You are not a superman.

• If it's stupid but works, it's not stupid.

• Don't look conspicuous, it draws fire.

• When in doubt, empty your magazine.

• Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.

• Remember:  Your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.

• If your attack is going really well, it's an ambush.

• No plan survives the first contact intact.

• All 5-second grenade fuses will burn out in 3.

• Try to look unimportant.  The enemy may be low on ammo.

• If you are forward of your position the artillery will always fall short.

• The important things are always simple.

• The simple things are always hard.

• The easy way is always mined.

• If you are short of everything except enemy, you're in combat.

• When you have secured an objective, don't forget to let the enemy know about it.

• Incoming fire has the right of way.

• If the enemy is in range, SO ARE YOU.

• No combat ready unit ever passed inspection.

• Beer math: two beers times 37 men equal 49 cases.

• Body count math: two guerillas plus one portable plus two pigs equal 37 enemy KIA.

• Things that must be together to work usually can't be shipped together.

• Radios will fail as soon as you need fire support desperately.

• Anything you do can get you shot, including doing nothing.

• Tracers work both ways.

• The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire.

• Make it tough for the enemy to get in any you can't get out.

• If you take more than your fair share of objectives, you will have more than your fair share of objectives to take.

• When both sides are convinced that they are about to lose, they are both right.

• Professional soldiers are predictable, but the world is full of amateurs.

• Murphy was a grunt.

If the sage would guide the people, He must serve with humility.

If he would lead them, he must follow behind .

- Lao Tzu

Do not let your opponent see your spirit

- Miyamoto Musashi

You win in battle by

knowing the enemies timing...

And by using a timing which

the enemy does not expect...

 

- Miyamoto Musashi

Words of Wisdom

Whatever good ye give, shall be rendered back to you, and ye shall not be dealt with unjustly.

- Surah Al-Baqara (2:72)

O' ye who believe! Let not some men among you laugh at others: It may be that the (latter) are better than the (former): Nor let some women laugh at others.

- Surah Al-Hujurat (49:11)

 

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"You can only see as far, and speak as deep, as your capacity to use language in its most varied forms. Similarly can you only hear, and understand truth, and meaning as far as your language abilities enable you. The truth is often very simple. The capacity to comprehend it, is however, not as simple."

- A Quotation by Ebrahim Alexander

 

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Karate is like climbing a Mountain. Life, too, is like climbing a Mountain. It is important to try hard to reach the top at your own pace. Once You are on top, You can look all around. If you stay at the bottom, you can only look up.

- Soshu Shigeru Oyama

 

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Be determined, Be dedicated to your art, And have the desire To WIN!!!

- Formula for Success

 

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A New Day

This is the beginning of a New Day. God has given me this day to use as I will. I can waste it - or use it for good, but what I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it! When tomorrow comes this day will be gone for ever, leaving in its place something that I have traded for it. I want it to be gain, and not loss; good and not evil; success and not failure; in order that I shall not regret the price that I have paid for it.

 

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You progress not through what has been done, but reaching towards what has yet to be done.

Courage, which is the sixth-sense, finds the shortest way to triumph.

- Kahlil Gibran, Saying

 

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Words of Wisdom

Treat with kindness your parents and kindred, orphans and those in need. Speak fair to the people, be steadfast in prayer, and practice regular charity.

Surah Al-Baqara (2:83)

 

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The training of Karate is like walking on a thorny road.

But because I love Karate I can take it.

I hold the anxious tears of training within my clenched fist:

dreaming of an everlasting world of peace.

Even if more people approach you with hostility -

to shun a fight is also a form of bravery.

The more I learn, the more I find I must learn more.

This is whatever draws my heart to the way of Karate.

I have learned to respect my teacher to the point

to where I would not even tread on his shadow

Traditional etiquette requires I wear my Black Belt -

The usage of a man in a karate gi. Someday our day will come.

 

- Karate by Larry Giordano (6th Dan USA)

Sayings

The longest journey begins with the first step.

Every minute that you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of joy.

Seven days a week without karate makes one weak.

 

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Be Positive

A positive manner is not just something with which you are born. It is a process that requires a certain amount of work to start and to keep it going. You have often heard, I'm sure, the phrase- "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT" and this is perfectly true. But perhaps even more important - "YOU ARE WHAT YOU THINK."

Thoughts lead to action

Action repeated lead to habits and

Your habits create your destiny.

You become what you think, so if your vocabulary consists of phrases such as- " I CAN'T, I'M NOT AS GOOD AS, I'M TOO STIFF, TOO OLD, TOO SMALL, NOT CLEVER ENOUGH, it's not your limitation that is holding you back, but your NEGATIVE THINKING!

It's your attitude that's letting you down and, WHO creates that attitude, YOU DO! So you are the only one who can change it. The first thing you need to know (and I am not saying it's easy, but it is easier than you think) is to eliminate all those negative thinking words and phrases from your vocabulary, but most important, from your thoughts. So instead of thinking "I can't" change it to "I can if I want to". Stop apologizing for being yourself. You have the same right to "be" as anyone else, and the same right to a full potential.

Don't cramp your style, be positive about yourself and you will soon see that others will begin to be positive about you too!

Performance both in karate and outside the dojo will improve, because a positive attitude breeds positive results. Don't believe me, try it for yourself and see.

REMEMBER: "Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours"

> Life is a self fulfilling prophecy. Make yours a POSITIVE one!

- by Ikki Naka

 

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Kindle my Spirit by Ebrahim Alexander

Kindle my spirit

As I fly upon the wind

Passions ascending high

Touching a cloud that is only mine

Kindle my spirit

Enchanted by the moon against a transparent sky,

Flying, flying high amongst the oceanic stars

Kindle my spirit

And I shall stop to cry

As the morning sunrays stalk my cushion

With eternal open windows

I shall always try

 

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Something to think about!

Whenever you are the biggest, the best, or stand out the most, when you have got the goodies, there are those who look at you in one or two ways. They are so jealous of what you have, or cannot wait until the day that they can pass you up and have more, or have equal. The only way that they can see you is as an obstacle in their way.

Another way is with envy. They are so envious and jealous of you that they cannot see themselves clearly.

Such attitudes should not be tolerated. Unfortunately you will find a lot of people in Martial Arts with one or both of these attitudes. Realistically, they should be contacting the people who are successful at it and ask them how they do it!

 

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Training

Training is an attitude

a Way of thinking about

effort and challenge.

It becomes not only

acceptable but something

to be desired

 

- Joko Ninomiya

We must lead by Example

 

First I must stress that I feel strongly about the title of my essay. To lead by example is easy to write or say, but to put action to words is a different story. This is one of the reasons why I have great admiration for our Senpai. I truely feel that he leads by example. In meetings with other groups he handles himself with dignity and shows that he is a man with strong principles and in my opinion comes out tops every time against shrewd opposition.

Physically he keeps himself in shape, still partakes in tournaments and keeps our training sessions serious and hard.

My point to all this (sincere) flattery-------- fellow students, is, to follow up on this lead. In our training we must really work hard. In karate circles, a karateka is judged by the goods he or she can produce. We must try to attend our training sesions as frequently as possible. Remember Blue Belts - the White Belt or Beginner already looks to you for lead as does the Yellow to the Green or Brown Belts. So please, Senpai, Kohai and other colored belts - to keep the training intense and spirited "Be There Whenever You Can".

If funds are needed we must commit ourselves to raise the amount to cover our needs. In this way too we are giving our Senpai the support he needs and showing him our appreciation. As for people who are trying to put us in a bad light, we must show them that we are not weak but will rise too the occasion and prove that we are a force to be reckoned with. We can do it, if we all LEAD BY EXAMPLE!

- Cashief Lee (Ashihara Honbu)

 

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Sayings

"A quick temper makes a fool. Impulsive men can be provoked to rage and brought to defeat. One easily angered is obstinate and hasty - he does not consider difficulties. One anxious to defend his reputation pays no regard to anything else."

- Sun Tzu "The Art of War"

 

"Indulging in hate and revenge is like drinking saltwater - the thirst can only grow..."

- Unknown, from Dave's Shotokan Karate Page

"Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."
- Bruce Lee
- The Tao of Jeet Kune Do

"Learning and teaching should never be a matter of ego."

- Rev. Kensho Furuya
- Kodo Ancient Ways

Muga-mushin: "Non-ego, non-mind."

This is the Void, where you transcend everything.

Knowing others is wisdom, Knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

- Lao-Tzu

For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom, nor for the uncontrolled is there the power of concentration; and for him without concentration there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful, how can there be happiness?

- Bhagavad Gita

Star Wars - Quotes

"Luke, don't give in to hate. That leads to the dark side." --Obi-Wan Kenobi

"A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense-never for attack." --Yoda

When ordered to undertake a particularly daunting task, Luke says he'll try. "No! Try not," Yoda says. "Do. Or do not. There is no try."

Yoda's path to Jedi wisdom seems simple, yet profound. He makes his students unlearn what they had been taught, helping them to tune in to the subtle world around them to learn its truths. "A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge. Never for attack."

Aim where you want to hit, and hit to which you aim!!!

- Paul DiFiore, YKK.

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A special Thankyou goes out to the following :-

Sensei Gaetan, Kaicho Hoosain Narker, Don Corrigal.

and also : -

Ashihara Karate Int. Webpage, Dave's Shotokan Karate Page, Blitz magazine (Aust), Miguel Carrasco

The Art of War - Sun Tzu, c 600 BC.

page 95, Go Rin No Sho, The Book of the Void; Musashi, Miyamoto; 1645.

Oyama, Mas - This is Karate, � 1965, 9th Printing , 1971 edition;
Chapter 8 - Formal Exercises, page 137.

Mabuni, Kenwa, the Founder of Shito ryu Karate; as quoted by Sosai Oyama in
"This is Karate, � 1965, 9th printing, 1971 edition", page 317.

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Rev. Kensho Furuya, "Kodo Ancient Ways".

"Zen In The Martial Arts", by Joe Hyams. Bantam Books, � July 1982

"Spirit of Shaolin", by David Carradine.� 1991. Random House Australia