Kung Fu. Hard work over time to accomplish skill.
A painter can have kung fu.
Or the butcher who cuts meat every day with such skill...
...his knife never touches bone.
Learn the form, but seek the formless.
Hear the soundless.
Learn it all, then forget it all.
Learn The Way, then find your own way.
The musician can have kung fu.
Or the poet who paints pictures with words
and makes emperors weep.
This, too, is kung fu.
But do not name it, my friend, for it is like water.
Nothing is softer than water...
...yet it can overcome rock.
It does not fight. It flows around the opponent.
Formless, nameless the true master dwells within.
Only you can free him.
Kung Fu is more than a system of fighting.
It's a system of thought.
you must outthink your opponent, whatever form he takes...
because some of them will be more than just men.
what else could it be, sifu?
we all have inner demons to fight.
we call these demons fear and hatred and anger.
If you don't conquer them, then a life of a hundred years...
is a tragedy.
If you do, a life of a single day...
can be a triumph.