Consider Yourself Lightly; Consider The World Deeply.

From One Thing, Know Ten Thousand Things

As If With The Nut And Flower, The Nut Has Become Less Than The Flower... Both Those Teaching And Those Learning Are Concerned With Colouring And Showing Off Their Technique, Trying To Hasten The Bloom Of The Flower.

People In This World Look At Things Mistakenly, And Think That What They Do Not Understand Must Be The Void. This Is Not The True Void. It Is Bewilderment.

Aspire To Be Like Mt. Fuji, With Such A Broad And Solid Foundation That The Strongest Earthquake Cannot Move You, And So Tall That The Greatest Enterprises Of Common Men Seem Insignificant From Your Lofty Perspective. With Your Mind As High As Mt Fuji You Can See All Things Clearly. And You Can See All The Forces That Shape Events; Not Just The Things Happening Near To You.

Imitation Is The Surest Form Of Flattery And Failure. I Am Not Interested With Your Talk About My Ideas. I Am More Interested In Your Applying Them To Your Life. If You Do Not, Then You Are Essentially Not In Accord With Your Own Mind.