Zhang Sanfeng famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it is impossible to attain stability. This is like the case of the fertile field, which cannot produce good crops as long as the weeds are not cleared away. Cravings and ruminations are the weeds of the mind; if you do not clear them away, concentration and wisdom do not develop.
-- Zhang Sanfeng
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Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
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The great thing about Weeds is that everything we do is never quite serious enough to be taken seriously. It always has humor behind it, and it think it makes it definitely more fun for the audience.
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Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
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And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.
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According to Krishnamacharya , practice and knowledge must always go together. He used to say, practice without right knowledge of theory is blind. This is also because without right knowledge, one can mindfully do a wrong practice.
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To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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How long does getting thin take?
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A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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