7 Lessons from Be Water My Friend
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1) Empty your mind.
Be formless, shapeless, like water.
You put water into a cup; it becomes the cup.
You put water into a teapot; it becomes the teapot.
You put it into a bottle; it becomes the bottle.
Now water can flow, or it can crash!
Be water, my friend.
Be formless, shapeless, like water.
You put water into a cup; it becomes the cup.
You put water into a teapot; it becomes the teapot.
You put it into a bottle; it becomes the bottle.
Now water can flow, or it can crash!
Be water, my friend.
2) When man is living, he is soft and pliable; when he is dead, he becomes rigid. Pliability is life; rigidity is death, whether we are speaking of the body, the mind, or the spirit. Be pliable.
3) Each day, we are different, and circumstances are differ-ent. Even when a situation you have encountered before appears to be the same, it's not. Nothing is constant.
4) The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness.
5) I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks once.
But I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.
But I fear the man who has practiced one kick ten thousand times.
6) Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles, big or small, and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself. Ihere is no such thing as defeat until you admit it to yourself, but not until then!
7) Do not condemn; do not justify. To truly understand there must be a state of choiceless awareness in which there is no sense of comparison or condemnation, no waiting for a further development of the thing we are talking about in order to agree or disagree.
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