Monday, February 14, 2011

the Brink of Death is constant

Death could strike a one year old a hundred times faster than it would a hundred year old.
That's why time is equally important
to each one.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Flying Mosques

The common architecture of mosques amazes me. They look so majestic. When I imagine a mosque in my head, it's never on the ground, but always flying or floating. It's like a celestial house of worship, because Islam is universal. Every time I see a mosque like that, I feel they are about to take off and fly away.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Special Relativity

Research it, and then Read the following verses from the Qur'an:

70:4 The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years:
TaAAruju almala-ikatu waalrroohuilayhi fee yawmin kana miqdaruhu khamseena alfasanatin

70:5 Therefore do thou hold Patience,- a Patience of beautiful (contentment).
Faisbir sabran jameelan

70:6 They see the (Day) indeed as a far-off (event):
Innahum yarawnahu baAAeedan

70:7 But We see it (quite) near.
Wanarahu qareeban



wow.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

HASHEM

Adir — "Strong One".
Adon Olam — "Master of the World"
Aibishter — "The Most High" (Yiddish)
Aleim — sometimes seen as an alternative transliteration of Elohim
Avinu Malkeinu — "Our Father, our King"
Boreh — "the Creator"
Ehiyeh sh'Ehiyeh — "I Am That I Am": a modern Hebrew version of "Ehyeh asher Ehyeh"
Elohei Avraham, Elohei Yitzchak ve Elohei Ya`aqov — "God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob"
Elohei Sara, Elohei Rivka, Elohei Leah ve Elohei Rakhel — "God of Sarah, God of Rebecca, God of Leah, God of Rachel"
El ha-Gibbor — "God the hero" or "God the strong one" or "God the warrior"
Emet — "Truth"
E'in Sof — "endless, infinite", Kabbalistic name of God
HaKadosh, Baruch Hu — "The Holy One, Blessed be He"
Kadosh Israel — "Holy One of Israel"
Melech HaMelachim — "The King of kings" or Melech Malchei HaMelachim "The King, King of kings", to express superiority to the earthly rulers title
Makom or HaMakom — literally "the place", meaning "The Omnipresent"; see Tzimtzum
Magen Avraham — "Shield of Abraham"
Ribbono shel `Olam — "Master of the World"
Ro'eh Yisra'el — "Shepherd of Israel"
YHWH-Yireh (Jehovah-jireh) — "The LORD will provide" (Genesis 22:13-14)
YHWH-Rapha — "The LORD that healeth" (Exodus 15:26)
YHWH-Niss"i (Yahweh-Nissi) — "The LORD our Banner" (Exodus 17:8-15)
YHWH-Shalom — "The LORD our Peace" (Judges 6:24)
YHWH-Ra-ah — "The LORD my Shepherd" (Psalm 23:1)
YHWH-Tsidkenu — "The LORD our Righteousness" (Jeremiah 23:6)
YHWH-Shammah (Jehovah-shammah) — "The LORD is present" (Ezekiel 48:35)
Tzur Israel — "Rock of Israel"

Adonai
Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh
El
Elohim
`Elyon
Shaddai
Shalom
Shekhinah
Yah
YHWH Tzevaot

HaMakom yenachem etchem betoch shs’ar aveilei Tziyon V’Yerushalayim

Monday, January 5, 2009

Saturday, November 8, 2008

Lee Jun Fan

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Simplicity is the last step of art.

A teacher is never a giver of truth - he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is merely a catalyst.

When an opportunity in a fight presents itself, "I" don't hit, "it" hits all by itself.

Empty your mind. Become formless and shapeless like water. When water is poured into a cup, it becomes the cup. When water is poured into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Be water, my friend.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Don't think, feel! It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way.

If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life. It'll spread over into your work, into your mortality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.

There's no challenge in breaking a board. Boards don't hit back.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Martial art is ultimately an athletic expression of the dynamic human body. More important yet, is the person who is expressing his own soul.

I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.

A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.