Warrior Quotes - Part VI

Quotes are good, but they're only 'surface knowledge'. It's always important to do in-depth research and seek deep understanding.
As well as research, it's also important to be thinking for yourself being analytical and drawing your own conclusions on the Way.

Over the past few weeks I've been sharing some of my favourite quotes regarding the way of Budo.

If you missed previous week's quotes just click here:
Warrior Quotes - Part I
Warrior Quotes - Part II
Warrior Quotes - Part III
Warrior Quotes - Part IV
Warrior Quotes - Part V

Remember - It's best to take your time and try to understand what is really being meant by each quote.




Mas Oyama

"Sword and mind must be united. Technique by itself is insufficient, and spirit alone is not enough."
- Yamada Jirokichi



"1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan."
- Masutatsu Oyama



"The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centred thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything."
- Morihei Ueshiba



"No one nation or people has a monopoly on the sun and no one art or system as a monopoly on truth."
- Mike Casto



"The Zen master said, "Who binds you?" The seeker of liberty said, "No one binds me." The Zen Master said, "Then why seek liberation?"
- Zen Mondo



"In the end one only experiences oneself."
- Nietzsche



"No one except a fish knows a fish’s heart, no one except a bird follows a bird’s trace."
- Ancient saying

Alan Watts

"Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is."
- Alan Watts



"We learn something by doing it. There is no other way."
- John Holt

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Derm

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Warrior Quotes - Part V

Quotes are awesome! They the give us insight into the mind of the masters.

Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing some of my favourite quotes regarding the way of Budo.

If you missed previous week's quotes just click here:
Warrior Quotes - Part I
Warrior Quotes - Part II
Warrior Quotes - Part III
Warrior Quotes - Part IV

Remember - It's best to take your time and try to understand what is really being meant by each quote.




"There are two rules for being successful in Martial Arts.

Takuan Sōhō with
Samurai Disciple

Rule 1: Never tell others everything you know."
- Roger H Lincoln



"The art of the sword consists of never being concerned with victory or defeat, with strength or weakness, of not moving one step forward, nor one step backward, or the enemy not seeing me and my not seeing the enemy. Penetrating to that which is fundamental before the separation of heaven and earth where even yin and yang cannot reach, one instantly attains proficiency in the art."
- Takuan Sōhō



"The fastest draw is when the sword never leaves the scabbard. The strongest way to block, is never to provoke a blow. And the cleanest cut is the one withheld."
- Unknown



"When two tigers fight, one is certain to be maimed, and one to die."
- Gichin Funakoshi



"We staunch traditionalists know that appearance is everything. Technique is nowhere near as important as having your pleats straight when you die."
- Steve Gombosi

Kano Jigoro

"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."
- Kano Jigoro



"Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end."
- Jiddu Krishnamurti



"A primary aim of Zen is the uncovering of what is known as inherent knowledge. This is not the kind of knowledge that is produced by thinking based on conditioned consciousness. It is said that the ignorant are obstructed by ignorance, while the intellectuals are obstructed by intellectual knowledge. One way of getting past these obstacles and approaching inherent knowledge is to let go of whatever comes to mind."
- Muso Kokushi

Dogen

"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things."
- Dogen



"If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against."
- Seng-Ts’an



"Abandoning things is superior, pursuing them is inferior."
- Yen T’ou



"Great faith. Great doubt. Great effort.”
- The three qualities necessary for training



"In the past it was expected that about 3 years were required to learn a single kata, and usually even an expert of considerable skill would only know 3 or at most 5 kata."
- Gichin Funakoshi



Okakura Kakuzo

"Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening; no doubt, no awakening."
- Zen saying



"It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress."
- Okakura Kakuzo

Comment below to share any thoughts or opinions you might have. J

 

Thanks for reading.
Derm

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Warrior Quotes - Part IV

Quotes are awesome! They the give us insight into the mind of the masters.

Over the next few weeks I'll be sharing some of my favourite quotes regarding the way of Budo.

If you missed previous week's quotes just click here:
Warrior Quotes - Part I
Warrior Quotes - Part II
Warrior Quotes - Part III

Remember - It's best to take your time and try to understand what is really being meant by each quote.


Confucius

"To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice."
- Confucius



"Make yourself a sheep, and the wolf is ready."
Russian Proverb



"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
- Bruce Lee

Laozi

"When you are content to simply be yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you."
- Laozi



"Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity."
- Laozi



"We are what we think, all that we are arise with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world."
- Buddha





Anko Azato

"The purpose of martial arts is not just to build a strong and healthy body, but also to educate one's mind and forge the spirit. Martial arts seek to build the body, improve one's character and find inner-harmony."
- Anko Azato



"Everything we hear is opinion, not fact.
Everything we see is perspective, not the truth."
- Marcus Aurelius



"The farmer channels water to his land, the Fletcher whittles his arrows, the carpenter turns his wood, and the wise man directs his mind."
- Zen saying



"Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself loses his misery."
- Zen saying



"Some youthful enthusiasts of karate believe that it can be learned only from instructors in a dojo, but such men are mere technicians, not true karateka.
There is a Buddhist saying that “any place can be a dojo,” and that is a saying that anyone who wants to follow the way of karate must never forget.
Karate-do is not only the acquisition of the art of being a good and honest member of society"
- Gichin Funakoshi.

Baizhang Huaihai

"Your treasure house is within; it contains all you’ll ever need."
- Baizhang Huaihai 


"There is no beginning to practice or end to enlightenment, and there is no beginning to enlightenment or end to practice."
- Dogen



"The believer is happy, the doubter wise."
- Greek proverb



"If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?"
- Zen saying

Comment below to share any thoughts or opinions you might have. J

 

Thanks for reading.
Derm

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