- Wanting is pain, not wanting is also pain. Even if you got what you want, you are still in pain and suffering. Because once you have got it, you then live in fear of losing it. So how are you ever going to live in peace when you are fear?
- People who suffer accordingly gain wisdom and experience. If we don't suffer and experience, we don't contemplate. If we don't contemplate, no wisdom is born, Without wisdom, we don't know. Not knowing, we can't get free of suffering - that's just the way it is. Therefore to gain wisdom, we must train and endure in our practice.
- All fixed patterns and methods are incapable of adaptability and pliability. The truth is outside of all the fixed patterns and methods.
- When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
- When a student blindly following his sifu and accepts his pattern, as a result, his action and more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited.
- Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
- If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
- The market itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant evolving and learning.
- Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
- The greatest mistake is to anticipate the outcome of a trade; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.
- I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies. To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery. I treasure the memory of the past misfortunes. It has added more to my bank of fortitude.
- Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being “wholly” and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
- It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
- Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
- Simplicity is the key to brilliance.
- Fear comes from uncertainty; we can eliminate the fear within us when we know ourselves better. “When you know yourself and your opponent, you will win every time. When you know yourself but not your opponent, you will win one and lose one. However, when you do not know yourself or your opponent, you will be imperiled every time.”
- After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.
- The lesser effort in analyzing/thinking, the better, quicker and more powerful you shall be.
- Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.
- Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
- When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.
- Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.
- The timeless moment. — The “moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
- The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
- It’s one of those things where psychologically you have to put yourself in a predicament, in a position, where you have no other option but to perform. You have to emotionally put your back to the wall and kind of trick yourself, so to speak, to feel that there’s no other option but to perform and to battle, when you have that, when you have that mindset, your performance shines through, your talent shines through. It doesn’t matter what the happens be it win or loss. It doesn’t matter because you’re emotionally at a level that is above that. That is the mindset that one should have.
- To learn, To gain, To liberate is to free your ambitious mind from winning and learn the art of losing.
- To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.
- The real problem with people these days is that they know but they don't do. It's another matter if they don't know so they cannot do. But if they already know and they still don't do, so what is the problem?
- Skills, Experience and Knowledge are not the most important aspect in speculation. Of course those are the intangibles required in speculation, but they are not right. They cannot give you the right understanding. To paper trade and lose is different from experiencing losing real money yourself. Only by experiencing the ups/downs in speculation can give you the true faith.
- There’s a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you’re a little ahead of your time you’re an eccentric, and if you’re a little too late, you’re a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you’re a genius.
- Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.
- Obey the principles without being bound by them.
- Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
- To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever.
- The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
- ’What is’ is more important than ‘what should be.’ Too many people are looking at ‘what is’ from a position of thinking ‘what should be’.
- Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. — There is “what is” only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.
- Life is never stagnant. It is in constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we constantly change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.
- Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.
- Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.
- If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
- Knowledge will give you power but character respect.
