"Separate yourself from the technique; separate yourself from yourself."

-- Masaaki Hatsumi

#Technique Quotes

“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
“Without him (Jean-Christophe) I would never have understood the splendour of taking free andindependent action as an individual. Up until this stolen encounter with brains had been incapable of graspingthe notion of one man standing up against the whole world...................To me it was the ultimate book: once youhad read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would ever look the same.”
“It comes down to this: If not you, then who?”
“I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.”
“Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I donâ€™t cry. I say maybe itâ€™s meant to be.”
“A good community insures itself by trust, by good faith and good will, by mutual help. A good community, in other words, is a good local economy.”
“That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?”

Source : Alex Shakar (2011). “Luminarium”, p.202, Soho Press
“One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.”

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