Koichi Tohei famous quotes

Pour some water into a tub and stir it up. Now try as hard as you can to calm the water with your hands; you will succeed in agitating it further. Let it stand undisturbed a while, and it will calm down by itself. The human brain works much the same way.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Art #Hands #Water

Power of mind is infinite while brawn is limited.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Mind #Infinite #Power Of The Mind

Do not criticize any other martial arts or speak ill of others, as it will surely come back to you. The mountain does not laugh at the river because it is lowly, nor does the river speak ill of the mountain because it can not move.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Art #Moving #Rivers

Practice is not a matter of years and months. It is a matter of concentration.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Years #Practice #Matter

You must practice to be able to return to essential principles at any moment.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Practice #Preparation #Principles

When you coordinate your mind and body, you have unlimited access to the wisdom of the universe.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Mind #Body #Unlimited

Be vigorous and full of energy, and make ceaseless efforts. This means that little things do not discourage you and that you approach all things boldly and with an attitude of determination.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Determination #Attitude #Mean

Our lives are born of the Ki of the universe. Let us give thanks for being born not as plants and animals, but as human beings blessed with a universal mind.  Let us pledge to fulfill our missions by helping to guide the development and creation of the universe.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Blessed #Animal #Giving

Countless people have attempted to define the absolute power of the world of nature. Some praise it as god, some call it the Buddha, others call it truth. Still others convert nature into a philosophy by which they attempt to sound its deepest truth. Such attempts to define the power of nature are no more than striving to escape its effects.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Philosophy #People #Sound

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Art #Rabbits #Lions

There is no conflict in the absolute universe, but there is conflict in the relative world.
-- Koichi Tohei

#World #Conflict #Relative

Let us have a Universal Mind that loves and protects all creation and helps all things grow and develop To unify mind and body and become one with the Universe is the ultimate purpose of our study.
-- Koichi Tohei

#Mind #Purpose #Body

One little light can light 10,000
-- Koichi Tohei

#Light #Littles