Analects of Confucius - Quotations

I am reading the Analects. These quotes struck a cord so thought I would pass them along.

The Master said: "When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."

The Master said: "Yu, shall I teach you what knowledge is? When you know a thing to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; - this is knowledge."

The Master said: "To see what is right and not do it is want of courage."

Some personal notes: I can not say if Confucius actually spoke these words as the analects interpreter hypothesizes that many of the quotes may have come from his disciples who use the statement, "The Master said," because they firmly believed what they wrote in his name actually were said by Confucius.

Regardless, these quotes and many more are inspirational. In my particular studies of the FMA (Fighting Martial Arts) we are divided. We have many factions or tribes who stubbornly remain with what was taught even when it may be off or slightly askew or moderately incorrect, etc.

This is not to point to one tribe or the other but to provide thought provocation in the spirit of learning and growth. Bushi Tatsuo Sensei, a very wise individual apparently, spoke of his intentions using the ken-po goku-i as a trigger to get folks to go past the mere physical or what I call the "dance."

He provided all his first generation practitioners a "key" and then as is custom left those individuals to their own means to search it out and find the door that the key opens taking them to a unique experience.

In my humble opinion the key has been lost to most and with all the monkey dancing (ego stroking) Americans do it may never be found or recognized, ever; such a shame.

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