"When you do everything in the normal state of mind, as it is when totally unoccupied, then everything goes smoothly and easily."
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"Whatever you do as your Way, if you are obsessed with it, or think that this alone is of importance to you, then it is not the Way. It is when you have nothing in your chest that you are on the Way. Whatever you do, if you do it with nothing in your chest it works out easilly. Whatever you do, if you keep the idea of doing it before you and do it with singleminded concentration, you will be uncoordinated."
The Book of Family Traditions
On The Martial Arts- Shambhala, 2003 Translated
by Thomas Cleary