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Learning a technique is not an end in itself, it merely indicates where you need to start.

Masaaki Hatsumi

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Masaaki Hatsumi
Age: 92
Born: 1931
Born: December 2
Choreographer
Martial Arts
Painter
Physician
Sensei
Soke Hatsumi
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You are not just fighting one opponent. You are fighting the unknown.
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Don't have a fixed idea in your head (that you have to use this or that technique). Use everything you've learned until now.
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There was a famous Zen master whom people would seek out to become enlightened. He was strict and would occupy people with things having nothing to do with seeking enlightenment. You see, that is the only way to achieve enlightenment by not focusing on achieving it. Then, one day it will just come to you.
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Always be able to kill your students
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Nature is your friend it helps you to win. Your enemy will have unnatural movement, therefore you will be able to know what he is going to do before he does it.
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Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world.
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Any place we can breathe, we can do Ninjutsu.
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Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%
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What I want you to do is just take it as it is. Don't think too much. If you get involved with thinking about it, the whole thing gets lost or loses its purity. Don't think during practice - DO! The more you think, the further from the truth of budo you get: Budo is NOT an academic subject!
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The simplest is always the most difficult.
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People who cannot respect others for their good qualities - people who only look at the bad in others - are no good themselves. By looking at only the bad points, you open yourself up, and in a real encounter, will most probably be killed.
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You've got to learn to utilize the space (between you and your opponent). Distancing is very important.
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Humans have yet to dwell upon the consequences of their actions. People have yet to admit the bad that they do to nature, for example. Actually, most people spend their time finding fault in the action of others, rather than their own.
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Don't think that any one technique is the end. there is no end. There is no perfect technique. Just when you think you've got them, you're dead because you didn't.
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