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KCC: Master, we are taught that a good man’s heart is not shut within itself, but is open to the hearts of others.
Po: The sage says “Find good people good, and bad people good, because I am good enough. Trust men of their word, and liars, if I am true enough.” To be yourself, Grasshopper, feel the heartbeats of others, above your own.
KCC: But if I shall love others how can I be sure that they, in return, will love me?
Po: Do you seek love or barter?
KCC: But if I love others, and they do not love me, I shall feel great pain.
Po: That is what you risk, Grasshopper. Great pain, or great joy.

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Po: Grasshopper, do you find mystery in the fire?
KCC: My thoughts are of a girl I saw in the marketplace. She as very pretty. She sought my friendship. And then when she had it, she did not want it. Master, why can the female not be direct and open as the man can?
Po: Is it not better that the female act as a female?
KCC: She seeks only to confuse. The truth is not within her.
Po: Perhaps you only fail to perceive it.
KCC: I do not know that I wish to perceive it
Po: (Pointing to a coal fire) What is it that makes the heat? The coal or the flame?
KCC: The coal. The heat is within the coal.
Po: What if the coal is not touched be the flame?
KCC: The heat is not felt.
Po: Are not male and female, coal and flame? If the coal does not seek to know the flame, can either fulfill their destiny?

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KCC: Master, I am troubled. We learn to make powerful the force of out bodies. Yet we are taught to reverence all against whom we may use such force.
Kan: When your life is threatened, or the innocent life of another, you will be prepared to defend them.
KCC: Being thus prepared better than others, should I not always stand and fight?
Kan: Ignore the insulting tongue, duck the provoking blow, run from the assault of the strong.
KCC: Are these not the actions of a coward?
Kan: The wild boar runs from the tiger. Knowing that each being well armed by nature with deadly strength, may kill the other. Running, he saves his own life, and that of the tiger. This is not cowardice. It is the love of life.

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Po: I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy. For from mercy comes courage. The second is frugality. From which comes generosity to others. The third is humility. For from it comes leadership.

KCC: Strange treasures. How shall I keep them?
Po: Keep them in your deeds, Grasshopper.

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“The power of not contending”

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Kung Fu: The Best Fighters Don’t Contend

Kung Fu: On Revenge (With a Young Don Johnson)

“Remember this, if men would contend with you, seek not their death, but choose your own life.”

– Master Kan

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Kung Fu: “Saving Your Own Life” vs “Killing an Opponent”

Master Po: Did your eye meet your own fist?
Young Caine: Then shall I seek ways to repay?
Master Po: What is the debt?
Young Caine: My suffering.
Master Po: Vengeance is a water vessel with a hole. It carries nothing but the promise of emptiness.
Young Caine: Shall I then repay injury always with kindness?
Master Po: Repay injury with justice and forgiveness, but kindness always with kindness

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwBL8nhW2yQ

Kung Fu – Vengeance – S01E04 An Eye For An Eye – David Carradine

“You walk too much with your head down. You oughta keep your eyes up towards the sun.”

– John Drew Barrymore

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Kung Fu: John Drew Barrymore Gives Caine Some Advice

Grasshopper

Published on Apr 3, 2017

This clip is taken from the episode called “A Dream Within a Dream” from series 2. Starring David Carradine and John Drew Barrymore. Sadly, due to addiction, Barrymore’s acting career was to come to an end just 2 years after this scene. Terrible waste of talent. He died from cancer in 2003.

KCC: Master, I am troubled.

Kan: Why?

KCC: My parents are long dead. General Jung is tumbled from his arrogance and power. Yet within me anger boils as water in a heated pot.

Kan: Observe the day lily. Each morning, with the warmth of the sun it opens in lovely blossom. Each night it closes.

KCC: I do not understand. What has a flower have to do with my anger?

Kan: Once your anger warmed you, and like the flower you opened to it. That is long past. It is night.

KCC: Am I then to do nothing, feel nothing, be still?

Kan: Still water is like glass. It is the perfect level. A carpenter can use it. The heart of a wise man is tranquil and still. Thus, it’s the mirror of heaven and earth. The glass of everything. Be like still water. You look into it, and see yourself.

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Kung Fu – Be Like Still Water

“Yet to be violent is to be weak. Violence has no mind. Is it not wiser to seek a man’s love than to desire his swift defeat?” – Master Kan

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Kung Fu: The Way of Violence Has No Mind

Grasshopper

Published on Apr 28, 2017

The clip taken from the classic 70s TV series “kung Fu” is from the episode called “The Way of Violence Has No Mind” from Series 2. Starring David Carradine as Caine, Radames Pera as young Caine, Robert Ito (who starred in “Quincy”) as Captain Lee, Jesse Dizon as Quoy and Philip Ahn as Master Po.

Kung Fu: Caine’s Absolute Reluctance to Fight Unless He Has To

Grasshopper

“Is it not better to see yourself truly than care about how others see you?” – Master Kan

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Kung Fu: Master Kan Tells Caine off for Showing Off in Front of the Younger Students