Warrior Quotes - Part III

Quotes are the best! They tell us a lot about the nature of the way.

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

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



Yamada Jirokichi

"The way of the sword and the Way of Zen are identical, for they have the same purpose; that of killing the ego."
- Yamada Jirokichi



"We should not dwell on winning or losing in this relative world, but should make the utmost effort to polish our spirit & technique infinitely in Budo."
- Kenjiro Kawanabe



"It doesn't matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop."
- Confucius



"Learning without thought is labour lost, thought without learning is perilous."
- Confucius

Qui-Gon Jinn

"Your focus determines your reality."
- Qui-Gon Jinn (Star Wars - Episode 1)



"Truth is universal, perception of truth is not."
- Unknown



"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
- Bruce Lee



"Learn the form, but seek the formless. Hear the soundless. Learn it all, then forget it all. Learn the way, the seek your own way."
- The Silent Monk (The Forbidden Kingdom)

Inazo Nitobe

"Anger at a petty offence is unworthy a superior man."
- Inazo Nitobe



"Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class."
- Hong Hi Choi



"An unwillingness to deal forcibly with violence does not equate to moral rectitude."
- Mary Malmros



"A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action."
- Gogen Yamaguchi.



"Even though surrounded by several enemies set to attack, fight with the thought that they are but one."
- Morihei Ueshiba

Miyamoto Musashi
Self Portrait

"Karate is a defensive art from beginning to end"
- Gichin Funakoshi

  
 
"If we look at the world we see arts for sale. Men use equipment to sell their own selves. As if with the nut and the flower, the nut has become less than the flower.
In this kind of Way of strategy, both those teaching and those learning the way are concerned with colouring and showing off their technique, trying to hasten the bloom of the flower. They speak of "This Dojo" and "That Dojo". They are looking for profit.
Someone once said "Immature strategy is the cause of grief". That was a true saying."
- Miyamoto Musashi

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Thanks for reading.
Derm

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