Spirit first, technique second.
“Spirit first, technique second.” – 5th point of Shōtōkan nijū kun (松濤館二十訓)
Gichin Funakoshi, founder of Shotokan Karate-Do
The secret of life
That “one thing” – from “City Slickers” (1991)
Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is?
Mitch: No. What?
Curly: This.
Mitch: Your finger?
Curly: One thing. Just one thing.You stick to that and everything else don’t mean shit.
Mitch:That’s great, but… what’s the “one thing”?
Curly: That’s what *you* gotta figure out.
To the edge of defeat…
A very impressive scene from “Searching for Bobby Fischer” (1993)
Don’t miss the full movie!
“Vinnie: He didn’t teach you how to win, he taught you how not to lose. That’s nothing to be proud of. You’re playing not to lose, Josh. You’ve got to risk losing. You’ve got to risk everything. You’ve got to go to the edge of defeat. That’s where you want to be, boy – on the edge of defeat.
Josh Waitzkin: But…
Vinnie: But what? Play. Never play the board, always the man. You’ve gotta play the man *playing* the board. Play *me*. I’m your opponent, you have to beat *me*. Not the board, beat *me*.”
If you only focus on the problem…
…you might miss the easy solution.
What is Wrong With Our Culture (Alan Watts)
Thought-provoking 5 minutes on the state of the world from the late, great Alan Watts, a man far ahead of his time.
(Please note that he died in 1973…)
Who directs your life?
‘Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.’ — C.G.Jung
Blind folded woman
How many labels do you put daily?
Very impressive commercial from Coca-Cola…
It really worth a look.
It’s no secret that human beings base much of our judgements on looks. How a person looks is usually the first thing we notice about them, but what happens if you meet someone without seeing them? That’s what Coca-Cola wanted to try when it placed 6 strangers in a dark room and had them meet for the first time in total darkness.
According to the researchers, factors that mostly influence a first are clothing style and posture. By having people meet in a completely dark room, there was no way for anyone to make a judgement based on how anyone else looks. When the lights come on, it’s not what anybody expected.
In Flow with the Infinite: the Secrets of Charisma
When there is coherence and alignment between personal level and higher levels, we manifest an energy and an attraction that automatically set in motion the needed resources; something that is usually known as “charisma”. Bruno Medicina
Speech (in Romanian) at “Lead your Life” event, June 30, 2015, Bucharest
Look for the Warrior and let him fight in thee.
-Stand aside in the coming battle, and though thou fightest be not thou the warrior.
-Look for the Warrior and let him fight in thee.
-Take his orders for battle and obey them.
-Obey him not as though he were a general, but as though he were thyself, and his spoken words were the utterance of thy secret desires; for he is thyself, yet infinitely wiser and stronger than thyself. Look for him, else in the fever and hurry of the fight thou mayest pass him; and he will not know thee unless thou knowest him. If thy cry reach his listening ear then will he fight in thee and fill the dull void within. And if this is so, then canst thou go through the fight cool and unwearied, standing aside and letting him battle for thee. Then it will be impossible for thee to strike one blow amiss. But if thou look not for him, if thou pass him by, then there is no safeguard for thee. Thy brain will reel, thy heart grow uncertain, and in the dust of the battlefield thy sight and senses will fail, and thou wilt not know thy friends from thy enemies.
He is thyself, yet thou art but finite and liable to error. He is eternal and is sure.
He is eternal truth. When once he has entered thee and become thy Warrior, he will never utterly desert thee, and at the day of the great peace he will become one with thee.
Mabel Collins, “Light on the Path”
