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Postby yat_chum » Fri Mar 24, 2006 2:34 am

"If training is hard, then winning will be easy, but if training is easy, then winning will be hard."
-Norman Harris, Sensei
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Mar 25, 2006 4:30 am

"Also by training you will be able to freely control your own body, conquer men with your body, and with sufficient training you will be able to beat ten men with your spirit."
Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Mar 26, 2006 4:22 am

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:48 am

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:53 am

Help thy brother's boat across, and lo! thine own has reached the shore.
Hindu Proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Mar 29, 2006 1:42 am

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC), 'Jugurthine War,' 41 B.C.
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Mar 30, 2006 1:16 am

"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, 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
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:08 am

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Walter Pater (1839 - 1894), 1873
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Apr 01, 2006 3:25 am

When a falcon breaks the back of its prey, it is due to timing.
Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Force
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Apr 02, 2006 3:35 am

Ecclesiastes 9:4 (New Living Translation)
There is hope only for the living. For as they say, "It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion!"

Ecclesiastes 9:4 (New International Reader's Version)
Anyone who is living still has hope. Even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Apr 03, 2006 3:23 am

Chapter 76

The living are soft and yielding;
the dead are rigid and stiff.
Living plants are flexible and tender;
the dead are brittle and dry.

Those who are stiff and rigid
are the disciple of death.
Those who are soft and yielding
are the disciples of life.

The rigid and stiff will be broken.
The soft and yielding will overcome.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Apr 03, 2006 10:22 pm

Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really No Path.
Morihei Ueshiba
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:43 am

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:47 am

“Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.”
Morihei Ueshiba
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Apr 07, 2006 5:53 am

Accept, Adapt, and Act. -Paul De Thouars
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Postby yat_chum » Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:59 am

But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Apr 09, 2006 5:17 am

The ultimate aim of the martial arts is not having to use them.
- Musashi Miyamoto, A Book Of Five Rings
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Apr 09, 2006 9:04 pm

Only someone who has mastered violence can truly choose to be non-violent. The Taoists and Buddists who developed the eastern martial arts understood this. Ignoring the problems of violence do not make them go away.
-Kit Lewis



And here is another thought for anyone who is feeling short changed because I have used the above quote in a post today

"The empty hand corrects your children, chastises your dog, and defends you when you are taken naked and by surprise in the bath. The rest of the time you should be carrying something."
- Maha Guru Victor de Thouars
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:06 am

Every time one laughs a nail is removed from one's coffin.
Honduran Proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Apr 12, 2006 1:53 am

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing (1780 - 1842)
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