KUNG FU Quotations

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KUNG FU Quotations

Poe: We have a good collection this month, Lee-You?

Lee-You: A fine one Master Poe. Already, I have found two pieces of rare beauty. I

am most grateful.Poe: We are grateful to you, for rewarding our carelessness.

CONTINUED

Poe: Will you walk with me, Grasshopper?

Young KCC: Yes, Master. Master? The man to whom you spoke, Lee-You? Is he a

confused one?

Poe: What is your view?

Young KCC: He is a beggar, like the rest. I can see he is greatly in need of food. But

he does not eat.

Poe: He seeks to satisfy a stronger hunger.Young KCC: He values what is worthless. (Broken pieces of pottery, which Lee-Youuses to decorate a monument he is making for a public area)Poe: To you, to me, perhaps. Not worthless to him.

Young KCC: Bits and pieces that cannot be put back together.

Poe: Not to understand a mans purpose does not make him confused.

CONTINUED

Lee-You: Why are you following me? What do you want? AH! You are from the

temple. Have you nothing better to do?

Young KCC: I was instructed to follow you.

Lee-You: Come now. You can think of a better story than that.

Young KCC: It is the truth, Lee-You. I am doing what Master Poe told me to do.

Lee-You: So wise a man, said to follow me. Why?

Young KCC: He said you could teach me a great knowledge.

Lee-You: (Laughs) But I cannot read or write. What can I teach anyone?

Young KCC: Master Poe said you had found both great wisdom and great happiness.

And if I observed you, I might learn what they are.

Lee-You: (Laughs again) Such a fine joke Master Poe has played on you. Sending

you to tramp on the dusty roads, after an old man, who does the only thing he can do.

He lives every day from its start, to its end, and hopes there may be another to follow.Young KCC: There must be more?

Lee-You: Nothing more, my son. But if you choose to think there may be more, you

are welcome to follow.

CONTINUED

Lee-You: You are the only helper I have ever had. How long have you been with me

now?

Young KCC: I cannot remember.

Lee-You: You are not paid. The work is hard. Why do you continue?

Young KCC: I have not learned what Master Poe wishes me to learn.Lee-You: AH. That Master Poe. To play such a cruel game on a good boy. Hey, go


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swim in the river. I will not tell.

Young KCC: I am here to learn.

Lee-You: Ahhh. Will it ever be done?

Young KCC: You do not know?

Lee-You: I grow old. Everyday weariness takes a little a more of me. Would you

finish my work?Poe: Will you, Grasshopper? If needed, would you finish Lee-Yous work?

Young KCC: I hesitate, Master. For it is Lee-Yous work. And only he knows its

purpose.

Poe: Ahhhhh. Then you no longer think him confused?

Young KCC: No Master. I now see the great clarity that instructs his efforts.

Poe: Clarity?! When he treasures what is worthless?

Young KCC: Each piece of porcelain finds a new value in Lee-Yous work (buildinga statue).Poe: You have begun to learn.

Young KCC: But, this is not the great knowledge of which you spoke?

Poe: Take heart. From the accomplishment of Lee-You, the work of many years. Onesmall piece. Now another, and another, and another.

(Lee-You dies)

Poe: You have said farewell?

Young KCC: As best I could.

Poe: Death has had no victory, Grasshopper.

Young KCC: But Lee-You is gone.

Poe: Is he not still here, labor upon labor, piece by piece, beauty upon beauty. Is it but

a monument, or is it the man himself?KF*

KCC: If you worry, will the future change?KF (REFERENCE: KCC will standfor Kwai Chang Caine when he was a young adult. Young KCC will stand for when

the character was young)*

Man: All because I was a rascal and a fool. I gambled away all the months rent

from my tenants. I Bought wine for everyone and paid the flower girls for their song.

There was nothing left. At last they goaded me into it. I bet my finger. Mao threw the

dice. And I lost!! It hurts, Masterit hurts!

Master Won-Que: And what would you have won if the dice had been otherwise?

Man: Four pieces of silver. As many as I have fingers left.

Master Won-Que: And with the four pieces of silver, you would have bought more

wine and the flower girls, would you not?Man: (Nods acknowledgment).Master Won-Que: Then perhaps with the finger, you have bought wisdom. And that

would be well worth the price.

Continued

Man: (Cries in pain). I have lost too much already!

Master Won-Que: The fire (infection) has entered the hand through the wound. And

the hand is dead already. And if we do not remove the fire, you too might die. Did

you hear me? Leu, Ive done all I could, but the spirit of the finger is calling to the

hand. And if we do not give it , the spirit will be anger, and may even demand more.Man: Spirit. Have you seen the spirit? (A crow lands on the nearby window ledge).


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Young KCC: It is here at the window!

Man: (Screams).

Continued

Kahn: What must we say of a mirror that receives tranquillity, yet reflects a troubledbrow? The mirror I spoke of was you, student Caine.

Young KCC: It is not with myself I am troubled with, Master. But for the sick man

Leu. If he does not accept the loss of his hand, he will die.

Kahn: did not Won-Que, make this clear to him?

Young KCC: Yes, Master, but..

Kahn: Yes?

Young KCC: Shall we not act in spite of the obstinacy of the sick man? When

inaction may destroy him?

Kahn: Is it your feeling that Won-Que is not forceful enough?

Young KCC: I have asked myself that question.

Kahn: Look to the water at your feet. Does not the sage say: "What is more yieldingthan water? Yet, back it comes again, wearing down the ridged strength, which cannot

stand to its strength. What is more forceful than quite water?"

Continued

Man: Master Que? I was so much trouble for you.

Master Won-Que: You were much more trouble for yourself, Leu.

Mans Wife: I see nothing to give thanks for. I brought you my husband, who had a

hand! And an arm!! And you return to me a man who is half himself.

Man: Woman! Be still! And you boy. Thanks for keeping vigil so long with me

(Master bows). Come woman.

Young KCC: Master. Why was the spirit not satisfied with Leuss hand?

Master Won-Que: The spirit might have been. But Leu himself had not been done

with gambling. He refused, as you recall, to let me help him.

Young KCC: I do not understand. What did the spirit want?

Master Won-Que: That we may not know. Only what they do. But it seems clear that

the finger was lost foolishly. And that angered the spirit of the finger. To be ripped,

unwantingly off. With so many good years left of work left in it. That appeased the

spirit for it was a good loss. The spirit decided to let Leu live. Sometimes we must

lose part of a gamble, in order to win in the end.

Young KCC: Master. Leu might not have consented to the loss of his arm except forthe appearance of the crow.

Master Won-Que: Yet the crow did appear.

Young KCC: And on the floor of the sick room, I found this (rice).

Master Won-Que: Leu believed in demons by his own choice. Not by ours. If the

appearance of one of his demons helped him make the right choice, then we can only

be grateful by the way of providence.KF*

Poe: What is it Grasshopper?

Young KCC: A man in need (bandit).

Man: Whatever you have - valuables, money - throw them on the ground (they throw

their rice bowls). What about you old man?

Poe: How many bowls do you need to eat from?Man: I can sell it. Throw it down!! (Poe does so, and accidentally a small book, and


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he picks it back up). Whats that?

Poe: It is of value to no one but myself. Some poems that I wrote.

Man: Throw it down!

Poe: No one would buy it.

Man: Then Ill use it to start my fire. What have you priests got to worry about. You

live content behind your walls, with plenty of rice and wine. While others work for aliving. We starve. Give me the book (they fight and the bandit is driven off).Young KCC: Master? Do you not know the poems in that book by memory?

Poe: Yes, Grasshopper. But can any man afford such arrogance?KF*

Young KCC: He betrayed us, yet we feed and cloth him.

Kahn: And you disapprove?

Young KCC: It is said he swore an oath, as one of us, never to reveal our secrets. It is

said that when he left us, he taught farmers to be soldiers. And led them to their

deaths in foolish rebellion.

Kahn: I am aware of his unsavory adventures. I know also his hunger and cold.

Young KCC: But, master. Will not food and new clothing strengthen him to go out

and cause more suffering?Kahn: It may. But when he leaves us in the morning, will the earth fall away from

under his feet? Will the sun, shining on all else, withhold light and warmth from him?

Will water turn to mud when he stops to drink? If sun, and earth, and water refrain

from judgment, who am I to withhold a blanket and a bowl of rice?KF*

KCC: It is said "Honor dies, where interest lies."KF*

Kahn: (He mentions the strange name of a plant) Mixed with the white of an egg,

it is effective for relieving pain in bruises and swelling. Taken internally it quiets the

heart and lungs, or causes death.

Young KCC: You mean it is a poison?

Kahn: A very powerful one. Its essence is Aconite.

Young KCC: Then it can be used to heal?

Kahn: Yes. But only when combined with other substances in the most exact

proportions. As with all things of nature. It can be used by man for good or evil.

Study this herb carefully, for the difference of life and death, in it, can be measured in

the blinking of an eye.KF*

KCC: A man can be broken.

Man: How?

KCC: By a strength outside, greater than himself. Or a weakness inside, which he

cannot understand.KF*

Ho: Master I cannot win this match.

Kahn: In saying so have you not already lost?Ho: This man seems to be driven by a force I do not know. He has a strength I have

never seen.

Kahn: There is more to this combat than physical strength.

Ho: It has been said that the lance can never give way, but that a man can give way.

Kahn: How?

Ho: By a strength outside that is greater than himself. Buy a weakness inside him,

which he cannot interpret.

Kahn: Do you forget that your spirit is stronger than the flesh? It can defeat the power

of another, no matter how great. There is no failure, no defeat, no weakness within

you. Only that which you allow to settle in your own mind. Draw upon the strength of

your spirit.KF*


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KCC: Master. I do not understand all that happened.

Kahn: No one knows all. We were challenged by a festering anger. The challenge was

accepted. And in the end, the seeds of hatred destroyed themselves. As they always

do. As they always will.

Poe: Battles are waged on the earth and in the heavens. Within the mind and within

the soul. This battle has been won.KF* Man: Humility may lead to meanness, But vanity may lead to violence. Therefore

it is better to be humble.KF*

Chan-Ye: Pismire. Pismire. Come over here. I want you to go to the village for

me.

KCC: On what errand?

Chen-Ye: This (hands him a note). Deliver it to the Pale Blossom Road. The 3rd houseon the left.

KCC: I shall ask master Kahn for permission.

Chen-Ye: NO! You will do as I tell you. You are bound. Give it to the girl Sue-Ling

(KCC takes the note from him).

Kahn: Chen-Ye!! Let me have that [note]. You may leave (to KCC. Kahn reads it andtears it up). Come with me. Why have you broken your vows, and betrayed the trust

put on you as a disciple of this priesthood?

Chen-Ye: I have broken only one vow.

Kahn: That is the power fought by all men. You allowed it to take hold, and drive you

to disobedience.

Chen-Ye: Master, I have struggled long. Torn between my desire to be a Shaolin

Priest, and my desire for Sue-Ling.

Kahn: Weve watched your torment Chen-Ye. Always hoping that you would come to

us.

Chen-Ye: Perhaps I feared to borrow the strength which you could give. Perhaps I did

not wish to be helped.

Kahn: The Yin and the Yang are opposite forces. Yet they exist together. In the

harmony of the perfect orb.

Chen-Ye: I could not find that harmony, Master.

Kahn: And because you could not, you must leave the temple forever.KF*

Kahn: When you leave these walls, you will come upon the many pillars of

violence.

KCC: May not a man, one with nature, seeing such pillars - avoid them?

Kahn: Other men stumble in the way. They go in idle-less search for peace.

KCC: Must I then tumble down these pillars?

Kahn: Seek always peace. Wear no paths for the footsteps of others, unless the soul isendangered. We are all linked by our souls. To endanger one, endangers all.

KCC: And if thus endangered?

Kahn: In such times, the soul must be the warrior.KF*

Kahn: What the eye sees disappears with a blink, or a wandering puff of breath.

Where there was light, the eye denied sees nothing (he blows out a candle).

KCC: My eye is denied (Kahn leads KCC to another room with a candle in it).Kahn: That is what the eye sees. What the souls sees cannot be denied.

KCC: Will not the soul, too, be denied when death blinks its eye?

Kahn: No. The soul sees always.

KCC: Yet the body dies.

Kahn: Does the sun die?


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KCC: It does not shine at night.

Kahn: It shines, somewhere, you do not see it.KF*

Poe: Discipline your body, that your mind may find a greater power.

KCC: What greater power is there, Master Poe?

Poe: Those who surrender themselves, find inner strength.

KCC: Will this protect more that could my arms and legs?Poe: When the heart knows no danger, no danger exists. When the soul becomes the

warrior, all fear melts, as the snowflake that falls upon your hand.KF*

Poe: GRASSHOPPER, BE YOUR SELF. AND NEVER FEAR THUS TO BE

NAKED TO THE EYES OF OTHERS. YET, KNOW THAT MAN SO OFTEN

MASKS HIMSELF. THAT WHAT IS SIMPLE IS RARELY UNDERSTOOD. THE

DUST OF TRUTH SWIRLS, AND SEEKS ITS OWN CRACKS OF ENTRY. AND

A TREE FALLING IN THE FOREST, WITHOUT EARS TO HEAR, MAKES NO

SOUND. YET IT FALLS.KF*

KCC: When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without

understanding.KF*

KCC: I do not get lonesome, I belong to myself.KF* Kahn: Strike each flame, within the width of a hand from the wick [candle]. In

this way the flame is snuffed out, yet the candle is not touched.

KCC: What is the purpose of so difficult a blow?

Kahn: Discipline. That you may strike with such strength, yet in one place, and no

more.

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.

Kahn: 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?

Kahn: Ignore the insulting tongue, duck the provoking blow, run from the assault of

the strong.

KCC: Are these not the actions of a coward?

Kahn: 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.KF*

Poe: You wish no longer to savor the memory of your father, through that which

was close to him?

KCC: Master, you have taught me to claim no possessions, that none may claim me.

Poe: The sextant was only a memory. Which you could keep not only in your heart,

but in your hands.KCC: I am now of age, I must put away such memories.

Poe: Between father and son there is a bridge which neither time nor death can

shatter. Each stands at one end, needing to cross and meet.

KCC: But he is dead.

Poe: The bridge which I speak of is your love for him.KF*

Young KCC: Master, are you lonely?

Kahn: Do you feel loneliness?

Young KCC: No. But I do not understand, why denied the experience of so many

things that other men desire, I do not?

Kahn: Do you remember the day that you first came here? You stood in the rain, you

did not play games with the others.Young KCC: My parents were dead. I was alone.


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Kahn: Is that why you waited so long? So patiently to join us?

Young KCC: Yes, it was.

Kahn: We to, were alone.

Young KCC: But you lived here together.

Kahn: Man, like the animals, is meant to live together, with others like himself. But

the meaning of belonging to such a group is found in the comfort of silence, and thecompanionship of solitude.

Young KCC: Is that why you let me enter, and taught me?

Kahn: We taught you young man, because you already knew.KF*

Kahn: Man against man. It is a contest that may have an end. He who is most

skilled will prevail. You are both enjoined by your vows to do your utmost. Disciple

Caine, you will attack. Disciple Han, you will defend (they spar/fight). Disciple Hanyou have done well [lost]. He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must

merely survive.

KCC: We swore an oath of friendship, master.

Kahn: You are speaking of disciple Han?

KCC: Yes, master.Kahn: And he no longer feels bound by this oath?

KCC: Because of the contest yesterday, between us, in which he was defeated.

Kahn: And you feel as though you have lost something?

KCC: I do.

Kahn: What will you do now with your oath?

KCC: Is not an oath eternal?

Kahn: But how can you control such a thing as a friendship? Which requires the

assent of two persons. It is well to consider deeply, before binding yourself to an

ideal, cause, or a man. But what is an oath worth that binds a man to an unachievable

task?

KCC: He is still angry, it troubles me. I do not know how to answer to his hatred.

Kahn: How else, but with love. One cannot always keep a friend. When that friend

believes that one has wronged him.

KCC: But, I have not wronged him. He is mistaken.

Kahn: Each man has the right to choose his enemies and his friends. He may choose

unwisely, but the decision is his alone, to make. Then he must live with the

consequences. And so must his enemies, and his friends.KF*

KCC: Your eyes saw a gun in my hand, and a man shot. For all you truly know,

your lie has freed a murderer.

Girl: But you said you were innocent.

KCC: Must I always tell the truth?Girl: But you couldnt lie. You hate lying as much as I do. If I never lie again, can I

be the same as I was before?

KCC:Each waking moment is as a rung on an endless ladder. Each step we take isbuilt on what has gone before.Girl: Then I will always be as liar.

KCC: Yes. But I can take your lie from you.

Girl: How?

KCC: I will show you that your lie was indeed the truth. Trust me.KF*

KCC: It was the truth. To say less would dishonor the respect for truth, which she

has won at such great cost.KF*

KCC: Master, as I walk these roads, are there none I may call on for help, when Ineed help?


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Poe: None.

KCC: Will this not be useful?

Poe: To those who would destroy us. In the past, when we have relied on our great

teachers to lead us, our enemies in high and low places, could deal us a mortal blow

by simply lopping off our heads. Now in our oneness, we are not like a great beast

which may be destroyed by a single well planned stoke to the brain. Rather, we arelike an ocean of many waves, or a field of flowers. Though one or more may be

uprooted, the others still live, with a life of our own.

KCC: As a wave upon an ocean, a single flower in a field of many, what will the

people ask of me?

Poe: To lead them against their enemies: the despots, the tyrants, wickedness,

iniquities, ignorance, persecution, superstition, dishonor.KF*

KCC: May I ask, master? When I leave the temple, what will be expected of me?

Poe: To walk the roads of the land, and use what you have learned for the needs and

benefit of the people.

KCC: Will I always know when to act and when to stand off?

Poe: That which you do not know, the doing will quickly teach you.KF* KCC: Well master?

Poe: Tell me.

KCC: The body and mind are one, working in unison.

Poe: They are one.

KCC: It is as though the unity made by itself, are necessary.

Poe: And all those years of rigor and discipline?

KCC: What else could a man seek, but this unity.

Poe: As the wise farmer puts back, into the land, at least as much as he has taken out

of it. So soon you must give back to others what you have taken for yourself.KF*

KCC: Master, what endures?

Poe: The sun endures, the moon endures, life endures.

KCC: Yet, the life of this young man has ended. He was younger than I am. No

daughter will weep for him. No son remains to sow his seed.

Poe: It is said the leaf honors the tree. Yet when the leaf falls, the tree trembles.

KCC: You speak of the past.

Poe: The present is rooted in the past. It is through these roots we draw nourishment

and strength.

KCC: And I am a man standing on one leg.

Poe: Do you know nothing about him, Grasshopper, you father?

KCC: I remember a troubled, quiet young man. It was as though he could not rest in

this new country, yet remained for my mothers sake.Poe: Nothing else?

KCC: He was an American. He once told me of the place he was born. I have never

forgotten the name - Lordsville.KF*

KCC: Master, of mans roots, which is the stronger?

Kahn: It is a Shaolin belief that the paternal line controls.

KCC: What is a man without roots?

Kahn: What is a tree without roots? The deeper into the earth the roots reach, the

stronger the tree.

KCC: A name. A face in my mind. A place. It is all I know of my father. One half of

myself, an emptiness, a mystery.

Kahn: Seek to discover it then. For it is this thread which holds you to the past andbinds you to the future. To fix your place for all time and eternity.KF*


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Poe: What? Sad Grasshopper?

KCC: My sadness is for you.

Poe: Is it?

KCC: Never to see the clouds, never to see the sun on the water, or the plumage of a

bird.

Poe: Yet it is sometimes eyes that blind a man.KCC: How can this be?

Poe: Because he can see, he does not look. Is the bird only the color of his plumage?

KCC: None should think so.

Poe: To be at one with the universe, is to know bird, sun, cloud. How much shall a

man lose if he then loses his eyes?KF*

Kahn: The rabbit feels rage. The tiger, pity. The dragon, pain. All creatures, the

low and the high, are one with nature. No life is insignificant. If we have the wisdom

to learn, all may teach us their virtues. This is Shun, master of the White Crane

system. From the crane we learn grace and self control. The snake teaches us

suppleness and rhythmic endurance. The praying mantis teaches us speed and

patience. And from the tiger we learn tenacity and power. And from the dragon welearn to ride the wind. Life sustains life, and all living creatures need nourishment.

Yet with wisdom, the body learns to sustain in ways that all may live.KF*

KCC: Mater, do we seek victory in contention?

Kahn: Seek rather not to contend.

KCC: Then, will we not then be defeated?

Kahn: We know that where there is no contention, there is neither defeat nor victory.

The supple willow does not contend against the storm, yet it survives.KF*

Kahn: Weakness prevails over strength. Gentleness conquers. Become the calm

and restful breeze that tames the violent sea.KF*

KCC: Master, our bodies are pray to many needs. Hunger, trust, the need for love.

Kahn: In one lifetime a man knows may pleasures. A mothers smile in waking hours.

A young womans searing intimate touch. And the laughter of grandchildren in the

twilight years. To deny these in ourselves is to deny that which makes us one with

nature.

KCC: Shall we seek to satisfy these needs?

Kahn: Only acknowledge them, and satisfaction will follow. To suppress a truth is to

give it force beyond endurance.KF*

Poe: You sit by yourself, Grasshopper. What do you think of?

Young KCC: My mother, my father, both gone. I am alone.

Poe: Do you hear the flock of birds overhead? Do you hear the fish? The beetle? In

this crowded place you feel alone. Which of us is the most blind?KF* KCC: To know nature is to put oneself in perfect harmony with the universe.

Heaven and earth are one. So must we seek a discipline of mind and body within

ourselves.KF*

KCC: The cobra seeks to fix the eye of the bird, before it strikes. In that moment

of looking at each other, each accepts their role - predator and prey. Fear creates the

victim. Yet, something in the bird makes it seek the eye of the cobra.

Man: Ive seen it.

KCC: A wish to die.

Man: Yes. Tell me how it feels.

KCC: But you know how it feels. I will survive if I can. But you. It is you who feels

the fear.Man: Im the one whos got the finger on the trigger.


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KCC: Facing death yet one more time. Yours. Mine. Its the death that fascinates you.

Looking into its eyes. You are the bird, the cobra is death.

NOTE: Bounty hunter risking life because something happened in life to depress him.

He does not care about life. He takes chances.KF*

Young KCC: Master?

Kahn: Yes, student Caine. What is it? An infant. Where did you find it?Young KCC: Left to die, by the river.

Kahn: You wonder, how can this be?

Young KCC: Is it better to let the infant die, than to force it to live?

Kahn: All life is sacred. Thus the joining together of man and woman, is always

honored. Apart, there is no life. But from such union, life may proceed.

Young KCC: Then life must always be defended.

Kahn: The thorn defends the rose. It harms only those who would steal the blossom

from the plant.KF*

Man: Mister, Im in your debt.

KCC: No more than the leaf owes the root. With water and sunlight, both grow

together.KF* Young KCC: Is injury wrought by oneself?

Poe: No.

Young KCC: Then by another?

Poe: No.

Young KCC: Then by oneself and another?

Poe: Did your eye meet your own fist?

Young KCC: Then shall I seek ways to repay?

Poe: What is the debt?

Young KCC: My suffering.

Poe: Vengeance is a water vessel with a hole. It carries nothing but the promise of

emptiness.

Young KCC: Shall I then repay injury always with kindness?

Poe: Repay injury with justice and forgiveness. But kindness always with kindness.

KF*

Woman: Im scared, help me.

KCC: Be in touch with what you feel. From these actions you will bring forth a new

life. Feel the sand. Once mighty waters hurled themselves against rock. And from

these two harsh trinks, came this most gentle sand.

Woman: Im scared. I dont know what to do.

KCC: See the graceful things around you. Hear the peaceful sounds.

Woman: I hear my own heart beating. And the pains.KCC: The butterfly, floating in the sunlight. The incense of sage. The laughter of the

wind. Think of these.

Woman: Ohhhhhh!!! I feel pain.

KCC: Trust. [pause] See. The sheath which held the seed has opened. And from

within, this bursting growth reaches out. As simply, and with more beauty, your seed

will find its own accord with nature. Seeking air and sunlight in its own free life.

Woman: But, Im scared of it, of what will happen.

FLASHBACK:

Poe: Fear is the enemy, trust is the armor.Young KCC: But not knowing what will happen, am I not wise to be afraid?


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Poe: He who conquers himself is the greatest warrior. Do what must be done with a

docile heart.

Young KCC: Master. How can I know if this is possible for me?

Poe: Listen for the color of the sky. Look for the sound of the hummingbirds wings.

Search the air for the perfume of ice, on a hot summers day. If you have found these

things, you will know.KF* Poe: Grasshopper, what troubles you?

Young KCC: I am ashamed.

Poe: To feel shame for no cause is a waste. To feel shame for a cause is also a waste.

For you must rather spend time correcting that for which you are ashamed.

Young KCC: Master. I woke last night, and seeing nothing, hearing nothing, yet I was

afraid.

Poe: Of what?

Young KCC: Death.

Poe: He who knows how to live need not fear death. He can walk without fear of

rhino or tiger. He will not be wounded in battle.

Young KCC: How can this be?Poe: In him the rhino can find no place to thrust his horn. The tiger, no place to use

his claws. And weapons, no place to pierce.

Young KCC: Why is this so?

Poe: Because a man who knows how to live, has no place for death to enter.KF*

KCC: Before we wake, we cannot know that what we dreamed does not exist.

Before we die, we cannot know that death is not the greatest joy.KF*

KCC: I must leave soon.

Woman: What should I do?

KCC: What do you feel?

Woman: Hate. Fills the emptiness where my child grew.

KCC: To hate is like drinking salt water. Your thirst grows worse.

Woman: Dont you understand what I feel?

KCC: I have seen the silkworm. It spins a thread, thinking itself to be safe. It has spun

a tomb. Hate is the tomb you weave. It will not save you from your suffering.

Woman: Thats what I feel. What can I do with it?

KCC: Perhaps there is room to bury your hate in that small grave, where we have

come from.KF*

Old Man: Leaving?

KCC: She is better.

Old Man: I have seen what you can do. All I have in this world is this sword. Its

yours if you do what I want done. An eye for an eye.KCC: Keep your sword!

Old Man: Youre a man. You feel. Dont you care about what happened?!?! They

raped my little girl!!

KCC: I am a man! I care!

Old Man: Then do something about it!!

KCC: (He grabs the sword) I will do something. I will break the necklaces beads ofvengeance. There has been enough killing (He breaks the sword). I will end it.

Old Man: If I dont have a right to revenge, who does?!

KCC: No one.KF*

Young KCC: Thank you Master Poe, for what you have done for me.

Poe: Not for you young Caine, for myself.Young KCC: But I was the one. The foreign barbarian they wanted to hurt.


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KF Quote: To be alone without one to love is a waste. But to be not alone, without

one to love is a waste of the soul.KF*

KCC: Master, may we speak further on the forces of destiny?

Poe: Speak.

KCC: As we stand with two roads before us, how shall we know whether the left road

or the right road will lead us to our destiny?Poe: You spoke of chance, Grasshopper. As if such a thing were certain to exist. In

the matter you speak of, destiny, there is no such thing as chance. For which ever way

you choose, right or left, it must lead to an end. And that end is our destiny.KF*

KCC: I follow the Tao. No one can say to what solitude that might lead, My

journey is endless, until it comes full circle at my death.KF*

Kahn: What do you feel? (Kahn is watching Young KCC, and he is watching a

young girl perform a dance. And she smiles at KCC).

Young KCC: Nothing.

Kahn: What do you feel?!

Young KCC: Uncomfortable.

Kahn: The mind, the body, the spirit are one. When the body expresses the desires ofthe mind and the spirit, then the body is in tune with nature. The act is pure. And there

is no shame.

Young KCC: What is love?

Kahn: Love is harmony, even in discord.KF*

Kahn: In the Shaolin temple, there are three kinds of men. Students, disciples, and

masters. Development of the mind can be achieved only when the body has been

disciplined. To accomplish this the ancients have taught us to imitate Gods creatures.

This is Shun. Master of the White Crane system. From the crane we learn grace and

self control. The snake teaches us suppleness and rhythmic endurance. The praying

mantis teaches us speed and patience. And from the tiger we learn tenacity and power.

And from the dragon, we learn to ride the wind. Life sustains life. And all living

creatures need nourishment. Yet, with wisdom, the body learns to sustain in ways that

all may live. (ADD IN THE SECTION ABOUT VIRTUES, TAKE OUT FROM GODS

CREATURES TIL VIRTUES), and the fire and passion of the winged dragon, there is

no discord. Between the supple silence of the snake, and the eagles claws, there is

only harmony. As no two elements of nature are in conflict, so when we perceive the

ways of nature we remove conflict within ourselves. And discover a harmony of body

and mind, in accord with the flow of the universe. It may take half a lifetime to master

one system.KF*

Kahn: Perceive the way of nature, and no force of man can harm you. Do not meet

a wave head on. Avoid it. You do not have to stop force. It is easier to redirect it.Learn more ways to preserve, than to destroy. Avoid, rather than check. Check, rather

than hurt. Hurt, rather than maim. Maim, rather than kill. For all life is precious. Nor

can any be replaced.KF*

KCC: Long ago Jwang Joe dreamed that he was a butterfly. He was very joyful as

a butterfly. Well pleased with his lot. His aims fulfilled. He knew nothing of Joe, the

man. But shortly, he awoke, and found himself again, to be Jwang Joe. He could not

tell whether as Joe he had dreamed he was a butterfly, or as a butterfly he has

dreamed he was Joe. (Young KCC read this from a valuable and sacred scroll).

Poe: You are not afraid to travel?

Young KCC: I am afraid only of failure, venerable sir.

Poe: Then take pains that you do not fail.Young KCC: Master, we are taught that the most important gift of our nature is the


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reaching out to one another.

Poe: To say and to listen. To teach what we know truly, to those who do not know. To

send peaceful thoughts over the bridge of words.

Young KCC: Yet, I am only to speak when spoken to?

Poe: Reach out. Yet, weary of what you allow yourself to grasp. Go now

Grasshopper. Guard above all things, the purity of your vision.KF* Kahn: Look at the world you live in, and this pool of fish. There are 12 fish, 12

worlds.

Young KCC: But only one pool.

Kahn: Many. The one you see, the one I see, and the world of each [fish]. The world

you live in is mysterious, exciting, unknown. And mine is older, familiar and calm.

You will never know my world, or I yours.

Young KCC: Never?

Kahn: Can you see with my eyes? Think with my brain?

Young KCC: But master, you are one with the universe. So am I.

Kahn: We are one. Yet we are not the same. Ten million living things have as many

different worlds. Do not see yourself as the center of the universe: Wise and good andbeautiful. Seek rather wisdom, goodness, and beauty. That you may honor them

everywhere.KF*

Poe: Where is evil? In the rat, whose nature it is to steal grain. Or in the cat?

Whose nature it is to kill the rat.

KCC: The rat steals. Yet for him the cat is evil.

Poe: And to the cat, the rat.

KCC: Yet master, surely one of them is evil.

Poe: The rat does not steal. The cat does not murder. Rain falls, the stream flows, a

hill remains. Each acts according to its nature.

KCC: Then is there no evil for men? Each man tells himself that what he does is

good. At least for himself.

Poe: Grasshopper. A man may tell himself many things. But is a mans universe made

only of himself?

KCC: If a man hurts me, and I punish him - perhaps he will not hurt another.

Poe: And if you do nothing?

KCC: He will believe he may do as he wishes.

Poe: Perhaps. Or perhaps he will learn that some men receive injury, but return

kindness.KF*

KCC: If you plant rice, rice will grow. If you plant fear, fear will grow.KF*

Kahn: The cobweb is made of silken thread so fine that a puff of breath destroys

it. Yet, to the spider it is a secure haven.KCC: Still to me only a cobweb.

Kahn: (Blows a cobweb): When the wind blows, a feather dances in its wake.

KCC: But the feather, much weaker than the wind, can do no other.

Kahn: Is this the way of man?

KCC: There are strong and weak.

Kahn: You do not see. Which is stronger, these boards, or your arm?

KCC: The boards.

Kahn: Strike the boards, using your arm as a weapon (boards break). Yet the boards

resisting do not endure.

KCC: Can the weaker be the stronger?

Kahn: See the way of life as a stream. A man floats, and his way is smooth. The same


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man turning to fight upstream, exhausts himself. To be one with the universe, each

must find his true path, and follow it.KF*

KCC: Master. The silent one. He is not one of us, yet he remains.

Poe: The river seeks its own level. It will not fight the rock, it flows around it. The

rock becomes a refuge in the river.

KCC: The fury is understood. What if he were outside?Poe: Is there an outside? Who understands the silent one more than a sparrow or a kid

(child goat). Though nature has clouded his mind and twisted his body, it gave a

magic to his hands. This the creatures know. Is it not a gift more precious then fame,

or beauty, or the riches of a king?KF*

Poe: Why do you hesitate, Grasshopper?

Young KCC: I am afraid.

Poe: What is it that you fear?

Young KCC: I do not know what lies beyond.

Poe: It is only a corridor, leading to a place that is no longer used. Is that something to

fear?

Young KCC: It is very dark, master.Poe: And is it not also dark in your room?

Young KCC: Yes.

Poe: And do you have fear there too?

Young KCC: No master.

Poe: Perhaps then, there is a greater reason for your fear.

Young KCC: Master, before I came here a boy in the marketplace whispered of the

corridor of death. He said the place at the end holds the bones of many who entered.

Poe: But Grasshopper, what is it that I have told you?

Young KCC: That life is a corridor. And death, merely a door.

Poe: Do you believe me?

Young KCC: Yes master, but I am still afraid.

Poe: In time you will learn to fear only your fear itself.KF*

KCC: When a man has nothing, it is then he is most able to raise himself up.

When we dream the things we wish for happen by magic. When we wake, we know

without effort a man is less than nothing.KF*

Daily, KCC practices walking on a large beam of wood. It is located on the

ground. He is practicing to walk across a beam suspended over, what appears to be a

pool of acid.

KCC: Master, if a student should lose his balance and fall into the pool, will he not be

consumed?

Poe: It is essential, always, to keep ones balance. Is it not?

DAYS LATER:

KCC: I see where others have fallen.

Poe: Let your eyes see only the beam. In that way, you will not fall. [HE FALLS IN].

Poe: (Laughs) Observe closely. Is not your flesh still clinging to your bones?KCC: The pool is filled with warm water, nothing else.

Poe: You believed it was acid.

KCC: But I saw skeletons.

Poe: Look again.(Poe retrieves plastic skeleton). Superstition is like a magnet. It pulls

you in the direction of your belief.KF*


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KCC: If I tell you, you are not within a prison. The prison is within you. Can you

believe that? Sit like me (The lotus position). Let all effort flow out of your body. Allheat flow from your body. The weight of your body becomes less and less. Until the

body becomes one with the spirit. Which is as light as a feather. As a breath.a

moment.as nothing at all.KF

KCC: The power to claim life is not superstition, it is destiny. Bow to superstitionand you create a new , unhappy destiny.KF*

Young KCC: What is the value of truth, master?

Kahn: It binds one to the reality of oneself.

Young KCC: This is hard for me to understand.

Kahn: So is the truth - hard to understand. Accept/except that which cannot be

spoken.

Young KCC: But, should I not always speak the truth? No matter what the

consequence?

Kahn: Recognize that all words are part false, and part truth. Limited by our imperfect

understanding. But strive always for honesty, within yourself.KF*

Poe: Arise calmly Grasshopper. And brush the indignity off your trousers. Youfought blindly, Grasshopper. A sickly maiden could have beaten you.

Young KCC: Yes, Master Poe. Forgive me.

Poe: Forgive yourself. You have suffered for it. What is the cause of your anger?

Young KCC: It is anger at myself.

Poe: Yes, but what is the reason?

Young KCC: For being a coward.

Poe: Ahhhh. When did you discover this about yourself?

Young KCC: Yesterday. When Ho Fong and I were attacked by five big bullies in the

market place. He was struck first. And I, out of fear, did nothing to help him.

Poe: You were two boys against five larger than yourself. What do you think you

should have done?

Young KCC: Fought back, and try to help my friend.

Poe: Ahhh, yes Grasshopper. That would have been heroic.

Young KCC: You agree, then. That I was a coward?

Poe: What is cowardice? But the bodies wisdom of its weakness. What is bravery?

But the bodies wisdom of its strength. The coward and the hero march together within

every man. So to call one man coward, or another brave, merely serves to indicate the

possibilities of their achieving the opposite.KF*

Kahn: Those who speak convincingly of peace, cannot go armed. Those who

speak convincingly of peace, must not be weak. So we make every finger a dagger,

every arm a spear, and every open hand an ax or sword.KF* Kahn: Training in the martial arts is for spiritual reinforcement. But is based on

self-defense. Disciple Caine. When you were attacked by more than one person, the

enemy should be allowed to make the first move, and thus create the beginning of his

downfall.KF*

Young KCC: My mother, my father. They were both dead. I could not save them.

Poe: You were only a small boy.

Young KCC: But after that I could no longer be a small boy.

Poe: The mountain is beautiful with snow. But after it loses its snow, green grows

from underneath. In every loss there is a gain, as in every gain there is loss.

Grasshopper, do you understand that?

Young KCC: I will try.KF*


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Poe: Self pity does not become you.

Young KCC: How do you know what I feel?

Poe: Your response is anger, not at me, but at your parents for dying and leaving you

alone. Do not make me responsible for that, or I shall become angry in return.

Young KCC: I dont care about you.

Poe: Do you not, Grasshopper?Young KCC: Master?!?KF*

Woman: They loved him.

KCC: So did you.

Woman: Not enough.

KCC: Love cannot measure itself until the hour of parting.

Woman: I am alone and frightened. I need to trust someone.

KCC: Trust comes within you.

Woman: Why didnt you tell me where you got the money?

KCC: I was not able.

Woman: Do you know who killed Jim? You do, dont you. Why wont you tell me?

How can I trust you, until I know everything?KCC: Is not trust to rely on someone of whom you know nothing.

Woman: I cant do that.KF*

KCC: If you worry, will the future change.KF*

KCC: With each ending, comes a new beginning. You said once, you needed

someone to trust.

Woman: Walt? Youve learned to trust people, but doesnt it hurt you?

KCC: And you, not trusting. Are you not hurt more?

Woman: How do you go through all that and not get twisted out of shape by it?

KCC: I seek not to know all the answers.but to understand the questions.KF*

Poe: Where does your pebble walk to Grasshopper? (KCC had thrown a pebble

into a pond of water)

Young KCC: It walks, its journey is to nowhere.

Poe: Each journey begins, and also ends.

Young KCC: Then the ending is the bottom of the pool.

Poe: Does not the pebble, entering the water, begin fresh journeys?

Young KCC: It seems unceasing.

Poe: Such is the journey through life. It begins. It ends. Yet, fresh journeys go forth.

Father begets son. Who becomes in turn father, who begets son.

Young KCC: Then the roots I have are me. And I am they.

Poe: Grasshopper, seek first to know your own journeys beginning and end. Seek then

the other journeys of which you are a close part. But in this seeking, know patience.Wear that travelers cloak, which shelters and permits you to endure.KF*

KCC: Master, what is the best way to meet the loss of one we love?

Kahn: By knowing when we truly love, it is never lost. It is only after death that the

depth of the bond is truly felt. And our loved one becomes more a part of us then was

possible in life.

KCC: Are we only able to feel this toward those whom we have known and loved a

long time?

Kahn: Sometimes, a stranger known to us for moments can spark our souls to kinship

for eternity.

KCC: How can strangers take on such importance to our souls?

Kahn: Because our soul does not keep time. It merely records growth.KF*


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Poe: Grasshopper, are you fishing in our lily pond?

Young KCC: No master. I see something which puzzles me.

Poe: Good. Tell me.

Young KCC: The stick is straight. Yet in the water it seems to bend.

Poe: That is not a puzzle, Grasshopper. It is only something you do not yet know (Poe

begins to walk away).Young KCC: Is what I see so unimportant?

Poe: Do you not know that what you see is made of reflections, sent back to your

eyes? Like a ball thrown against a wall.

Young KCC: But why does the stick seem to bend?

Poe: The same ball is thrown against two different walls; The water and the air. Your

eye is deceived.

Young KCC: I am sorry master. I still do not understand.

Poe: Look closer. You will see some things clearer. Perhaps you will see other things

you do not know at all. But the puzzle, Grasshopper, that is to find the way so that

others may see you.KF*

Poe: What have you found?Young KCC: A spider, master. It has trapped a fly. Should I destroy his web?

Poe: Why?

Young KCC: So it will not make a prison for other living things that were free.

Poe: Look more closely, Grasshopper. Were you to destroy this web, would not the

spider, knowing no other way, build another?

Young KCC: Yes. But I cannot kill the spider.

Poe: Look more closely still. Is not the spider also trapped by its own web?

Young KCC: Yes, but if I do nothing, it will capture more living things, make them

prisoner, and kill them.

Poe: You are concerned then with the fly, to which nature has given wings. That it

may move about freely.

Young KCC: It is cruel to see it made a prisoner.

Poe: Still you do not see. Which is truly the prisoner? The fly, which moving freely,

enters unknown danger. Or the spider? Which having spun its web, remains. Never

knowing the pleasure or the danger of the fly.KF*

Poe: A single blow to the base of the neck, can be a fatal stroke.

Young KCC: Master, these things which we are taught. I cannot do them.

Poe: You find the exercises too difficult?

Young KCC: No master. Too cruel.

Poe: And to be killed. What is that?

Young KCC: I must learn these exercises, to defend myself.Poe: Learn first how to live. Learn second, how not to kill. Learn third, how to live

with death. Learn forth, how to die.KF*

Poe: What beautiful image have you made Grasshopper, to please your eyes?

KCC: The branch of a tree.

Poe: Is not painting, the joyful reaching out of a man so filled with beauty, that there

is not enough room in him to contain it?

KCC: Master, I do not know if I should speak of what it is that troubles me (pause). I

have seen a girl. Her hair, soft and rich. Her voice, liquid. Her eyes bewitch me. My

sleep is filled with restless dreams. My wakefulness with longings. How shall I know

if this is love?

Poe:(picks up a hour glass): What do you see?KCC: Two glasses, joined together. One filled with sand.


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Poe: One only?

KCC: The other is empty.

Poe: Look! (Poe turns it over). To know love, be like a running brook. Which deaf,

yet sings its melody for others to hear. Feel the pain of too much tenderness. Awake at

dawn with a winged heart, and give thanks for yet another day of loving. Empty

yourself, and yet be filled. An old man tells you, this is how to know love.KF* Kahn: Tell me, what makes the shadow?

Young KCC: The arm of the sundial.

Kahn: But what of the sun?

Young KCC: Yes. The sun. Both help us. They tell us time.

Kahn: Yet, does not that sundial standing in the way of the sun, defeat its light?

Young KCC: Master. I do not understand. Like many things you teach me, it is a

contradiction.

Kahn: Shoot the arrow. (KCC does so). Which brings it to its target? The bow or thearrow? Launched, the arrow has not choice but to seek its target. Yet without the

arrow, the bow is an empty promise of flight.

Young KCC: Still, I do not understand.Kahn: When you must choose between one good and another. Or one evil and

another. Remember this. If men would contend with you, seek not their death, but

choose your own life.KF*

Kahn: Remember always, that a wiseman walks with his head bowed. Humble,

like the dust.KF*

Kahn: (KCC is knelt, bowing) Please get up. Why have you come?

KCC: To confess my unworthiness, honorable sir. I have disgraced my teachers and

shamed this holy place.

Kahn: Tell me how.

KCC: I have senselessly taken a life.

Kahn: You speak of the nephew of the emperor. It was he was it not, who killed our

master Poe?

KCC: I have shamed my masters memory.

Kahn: Did you not think to run?

KCC: I thought to run. But I could not find it within me to leave master Poe, dying.

Kahn: This is the grave of master Poe. This earth is honored to receive him. May his

bones find rest in this place. And may his passing, in its violence, not wake the tigers

of outrage, the dragons of vengeance. May it rather, in its sadness, wake nothing but

the dove in us. The lamb in others. So that together, in the bond of compassion, we

may rejoice in the memory of Master Poe. And wipe away forever the tears from the

eyes of the blind lion. The pursuit by the imperial police will be relentless.KCC: I understand, Master.

Kahn: Now go, for you may no longer stay here.KF*

Kahn: It has been said. Be utterly humble, and you shall hold to the foundation of

peace. Be at one with all these living things, which have arisen and flourished. Return

to the quiet whence they came.KF*

Kahn: Do not ask for forgiveness from me, for it must come from the one who has

condemned you.KF*

KCC: What you do not like is that your life depends on the promise of an Apache,

and the scruples of a china-man, which you do not understand. It is not hard to

understand. This is not an Indian, or an Apache, but a man. Whos name is Oh-Sky. I

am not a china-man, or a breed. I am a man. My name is Kwai Chang Caine.KF*


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Poe: (A young boy lies dead on the alter) What troubles you, Grasshopper. That

the boy was your own age?

Young KCC: He spoke of a curse.

Poe: Who was it that cursed him?

Young KCC: His master, the sorcerer Leu. Because he ran away.

Poe: The undiscerning mind is like the root of a tree. It absorbs equally all that ittouches. Even the poison that would kill it.

Young KCC: But he took no poison. And he was not ill.

Poe: That is true.

Young KCC: Why did he die, Master? I do not understand.

Poe: Did the boy not believe that he was to die?

Young KCC: He did not believe otherwise.

Poe: And so, his life had no choice but to fly away. Learn from him, Grasshopper.

CONTINUED

Leu: I am the sorcerer Leu. I am looking for my apprentice.Young KCC: He is dead.

Leu: I am grieved to hear that. It was my desire to instruct him in great secrets.

Young KCC: He said you put a curse upon him

Leu: It was his own foolishness which cursed him. And now the same curses me. I am

left with no one to instruct. What will become of my great secrets?

Young KCC: Are not these secrets not known to my masters, in the temple?

Leu: They are known only by me. They are the secrets of the universe. I can cure any

sickness. Converse with the dead. And confound a thousand masters (laughs). But I

must pass this knowledge to one who is worthy. Will you come with me and learn the

secrets of the universe?

Young KCC: Yes.

CONTINUED

Leu: (Back at Leus temple) Be still. Stand silent. The air is filled with a multitude ofcreatures. Some human, some not. Bind them to yourself, and you will learn the

secrets of life. Creatures of light, burn bright. Creatures of earth, hold true. Creatures

of fire and smoke, incense and perfume, cast away any phantoms of evil intent.

Appear, come forth and serve your master!!

CONTINUED

Young KCC: Master. I have been to the temple of the sorcerer Leu. I followed him

thinking to learn great secrets. I ran away.

Poe: Before you learned his great secrets?

Young KCC: He cursed me. As he cursed the boy who died. Now I will die! (Poeholds a candle up to a mirror). Will this lift the curse?Poe: What do you see in the mirror?

Young KCC: The flame of the candle.

Poe: Is the mirror harmed by the flame?

Young KCC: No, Master. It only reflects it.

Poe: Be like the mirror.Young KCC: How do I do that?


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Poe: Allow no evil to pass through you. Reflect it to its source.

Young KCC: Then shall I be safe.

Poe: Go to sleep, Grasshopper.KF*

Young KCC: A threat cannot harm, unless you accept it.KF*

Quote at end of a KF show: That we are possessed by what we would posses; held

in bondage to earth and vested things by the attachments we form for them. Even soholy a thing as a chalice, so slight a thing as a pebble."(The reference to the pebble is

the one KCC has to extract from the masters hand in order to leave the temple. Thechalice reference is what was stolen by several individuals, during the episode, and

finally retrieved by KCC) KF*

Young KCC: And what is it to be a man?

Kahn: To be a man is to be one with the universe.

Young KCC: But what is the universe?

Kahn: Rather ask, what is not the universe.

Young KCC: Then it is everywhere?

Kahn: It is in your eye, and in your heart. As a seed of the peach contains the

fragrance of the flower, and the substance of the fruit.Young KCC: And the bitter pit at its core?

Kahn: Even that.KF*

KCC: You are a good son.

O-Sky: What is a son, without a father or mother?

KCC: Is not a son the love of a mother and a father, and the life they gave him? A

design of the universe he must fulfill, if he is to be a man.KF*

Poe: What is it grasshopper?

Young KCC: I have been troubled.

Poe: I have sensed that in you these past days. While your body has been healing,

your spirit has sickened.

Young KCC: It is because I have done nothing about the murder of my parents.

Poe: And what do you propose to do?

Young KCC: Find General Chung, kill him!!

Poe: You a boy, not yet a man. Against the ruthless warlord and his soldiers.

Young KCC: If I can find him alone, it could be done.

Poe: And being done, what do you derive?

Young KCC: Satisfaction.

Poe: Huh(pause, he blows out one of many lit candles). Is there now more or less

light in this chamber?

Young KCC: There is less.

Poe: Is it not more important that you find yourself, than a killer of men? Would yourparents not wish you to go forward to life and light? Rather than backwards to death

and darkness?

Young KCC: How do I find myself and the light?

Poe: By taking the path that leads to the truth.

Young KCC: Will you help me walk the path?

Poe: I can only point the way, Grasshopper. You must walk the path yourself.KF*

Poe: What is in your heart Grasshopper!?

KCC: That is the man who killed my mother and my father!

Poe: Revenge is a double edged sword. It cuts both ways. Either Jung Sue just will

kill you or you will destroy yourself. A rather suicide of your spirit. Grasshopper, the

wheel of life has turned inexorably, by the infinite stars. So it is, the truth will not becheated. Consider General Jung. Reduced to stealing some few bags of rice. Is not the


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wheel crushing him? Is it not his path which he treads with his own feet, leading to an

eternal grave?KF*

KCC: Is the spirit of a man sustained by food [or drugs, alcohol, etc], or warmed

by outer garments?KF*

Poe: Your final test. The urn of the two symbols. The dragon and the tiger. When

you can walk in this corridor, the path to the outer world, and can push the urn asidewith your forearms, you will bear its markings with you for the rest of your life.

KCC: Hundreds of pounds of burning coal and iron. How can I, Master? Having only

the strength of a man, and the weaknesses.

Poe: It is because you are a man that you can do this, Grasshopper.

KCC: I do not understand.

Poe: As the softest clay, in time, becomes the hardest brick. A fragile leaf - a

diamond. As a stream of fiery ore freezes into unbending iron. So too may a man

ascend to himself.

KCC: How?

Poe: By slowly forging the Chi within yourself. The bond between the finite and the

infinite. The inner essence of your spirit and the limitless power of the universe.KCC: How can I do this?

Poe: You will have found your strength and the source of your survival. You will be

free.KF*

KCC: Master, I am troubled.

Kahn: 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.

Kahn: 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?

Kahn: 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?

Kahn: 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, its the mirror of heaven and earth. The glass

of everything. Be like still water. You look into it, and see yourself.KF*

KCC: If I worry, will the future change?KF*

Man: What is this place?

KCC: It is a temple.

Man: A temple? How did I get here?

KCC: I saw you struggling in the river.Man: You pulled me out?!

KCC: You were drowning.

Man: As I wanted to. Never before had the courage.

KCC: Cannot courage give you joy to live?

Man: Tell me the joy of an empty stomach.

LATER

Man: Do you want your blanket back?! It is not mine. I do not deserve it.

KCC: You may keep the blanket.

Man: It is little enough. Too little. Where will I go, how will I eat?KCC: You are welcome to stay.


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Man: No! I cannot fill my belly on your thin soup, and your thinner

pieties(philosophies)!!KCC: We can give only what we have.

Man: I want what was in my hand, when you took it from me.

LATER

Poe: You gave him an unwelcome life.

KCC: He will do it again, what he tried to do. Tomorrow. Next week. Next month.

Poe: If you found the flame of a candle struggling to survive, what would you do?

KCC: Free it from its own wax.

Poe: How much?

KCC: As much as needed, to save the flame.

Poe: Does a mans life deserve less?

LATER: Man is killed trying to steal a pig for meat.

KCC: He had no one to morn him.

Poe: You and I.

KCC: No one who loves him.

Poe: You knew him.

KCC: I did not love him.

Poe: The lack is in you.

KCC: I wanted to help him.

Poe: You gave him life.

KCC: I gave him a few days. What do they matter?

Poe: To him, or yourself? Do not see him and his life through your own eyes.

KCC: I see his pain. Even through his eyes.

Poe: And his needs, Grasshopper. Do you also see them through his eyes?KF*

KCC: Fear brings anger to the tongue. A friend speaks to the heart.KF*

Young KCC: I loved him.

Kahn: He was my master.

Young KCC: How did you know where he was?

Kahn: There could be only one place for him. His favorite path in the foothills. We

found master Sons body, in a comfortable position. His back resting against the

boulder. Starring down at our valley. His face glistened in the frost. But his lips were

black, from the poison of the wild berries.

Young KCC: Everyone loved him. Why did he take his own life? (Master clasps hishands together). Yin and Yang?!

Kahn: The yes and the no. In him the no conquered.

Young KCC: But I sensed that he was in harmony.

Kahn: Perhaps he looked into our valley, knowing that soon he would have to leave it.

But instead of the beauty we observe, he saw ugliness.

Young KCC: How is that possible?

Kahn: He looked with his eyes. And we look with ours.KF*

KCC: With plenty to eat, and work to do I am already rich.KF*

Kahn: You did not fail (KCC was sent to a clearing to watch a skit performed by

other masters).

Young KCC: I did not see what you sent me to see.Kahn: What you saw or did not see in the clearing is not important.


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Young KCC: Than why did you send me?

Kahn: When old master Son looked down into our valley, and saw ugliness, he

revealed something about himself, to himself. He did not like what he revealed.

Young KCC: But I saw evil in the peacock. That it was the robber. Yet the peacock

contained no evil at all.

Kahn: You saw what your eyes told you.Young KCC: But master, what I saw was not real.

Kahn: You made it so. As master Son saw ugliness, where nothing exists but a

valley.KF*

KCC: Master? Why do we morn for this man, who is a stranger? Is he someone

special?

Poe: You heard the circumstances of his death?

KCC: He was killed on the road, by bandits, of the Red Turban Tong. This is what I

was told.

Poe: There is more that you were not told. There is much evil in the world,

Grasshopper. It has always been thus. And so, our ancestors built this monastery anddeveloped the art of Gung-Fu, so that they might cultivate virtue and protect

themselves from harm. But whatever one man possesses, another will covet. The

Manchu Emperor heard of our prowess. So he sent an army of soldiers to burn the

monastery to the ground. Only five escaped. They made their way to Fu-Kyen. And

founded the Tong to overthrow the Manchus and restore the Ming emperors to the

throne. Violence became their tool for combating violence. Thus the sage Jwang Tzu

has said: "By ethical argument and moral principle, the greatest crimes are shown to

have been necessary, and in fact a great benefit to mankind." 200 years have passed.

The Manchus are still sitting upon the throne, The Tong still kill, no longer for a

noble cause. Yet they are the children of the five Shaolin priests, who went to Fu-

Kyen, long ago. And we are the parents, so we morn this strangers death.

KCC: Master, must we not do more than morn this man. We must right it.

Poe: How, Grasshopper?

KCC: Strike down this Tong. Take away from our children the power to do wrong.

Poe: That is what they said in Fu-Kyen 200 years age. No, Grasshopper. Evil cannot

be conquered in the world. It can only be resisted within oneself.KF (Episode "The

Tong")*

KCC: What will happen will happen. Whether one is afraid or not (this was a

response when KCC was asked about being afraid).KF (Episode "The Tong")

KCC: I do not know your bible. But our sage Lao Tzu has written: "A wise man

does not contend, therefore no one can contend against him. Yield and overcome."What will happen, will happen. Whether one is afraid or not.KF (Episode "The

Tong")*

Poe: Are you all right now?

Young KCC: Yes. My nose is bleeding.

Poe: That is because you fought in anger. It is a bad way to fight.

Young KCC: I wanted to repay a hurt to Ho Fong.

Poe: And what was the hurt?

Young KCC: He calls me "Oil and Water." Because I have white blood.

Poe: And this made you nose bleed?

Young KCC: It caused me pain.

Poe: Is it a lie then?Young KCC: No. It is the truth.


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Poe: And you wish it were not true? (Near by a priest is carving a piece of wood)

What is he making?

Young KCC: An animal, master. I cannot yet tell what kind.

Poe: It was just a piece of wood. And now it will become an animal. And [the shaved

off wood] will go feed the fires in the kitchen. And yet, they are the same in this. That

each has been diverted from its true nature, Time is carving you, Grasshopper. Letyourself be shaped, according to your true nature.KF*

Young KCC: Master, you have said we are to make ourselves one with life.

Poe: As the leaf flows with the river. It does not hold it back, it makes not even a

ripple.

Young KCC: Should not the branch then be left as the wind has left it?

Poe: If I do not help it to heal, it will wither, never to bear fruit for the birds to eat.

Would you have the birds go hungry?

Young KCC: No, Master. But if we help, how then are we like the leaf on the river?

Poe: Do what must be done.

Young KCC: But Master, how will I know when to be like the leaf, and when to do

what must be done?Poe: What do you think?

Young KCC: I do not know.

Poe: The way to do, is to be.KF*

Student: Master, I have gathered these for you.

Poe: Why?

Student: Because they are the most perfect flowers of all, as you are the most perfect

master.

Poe: I cannot accept them. (Pause) Grasshopper. Were you not preparing me a gift of

great beauty?

Young KCC: I was master.

Poe: What has become of it?

Young KCC: You do not want flowers.

Poe: Have you no love for me?

Young KCC: I have only love for you.

Poe: The other boy does not. His was a gift without love. It was false.

Young KCC: I feared you would not accept them. I feared that I would be hurt.

Poe: And now, have you not lost the joy we might have shared.KF*

KCC: Master, we are taught that a good mans heart is not shut within itself, but is

open to the hearts of others.

Poe: 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?

Poe: Do you seek love or barter?

KCC: But if I love others, and they do not love me, I shall feel great pain.

Poe: That is what you risk, Grasshopper. Great pain, or great joy.KF*

Poe: Do you marvel at the carvers skill?

KCC: Yes, Master. And it is mean. Each is free to move, and each is held captive.

Poe: Are we not also?

KCC: The temple does not hold us, we have only to open the door.

Poe: Are we then free to go anywhere we choose, even up into the heavens?

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KCC: And defeat?

Kahn: Does not the true value lie in what one does with either?KF*

Young KCC: Ugly!

Kahn: And yet to another such creature, might not this one appear beautiful?

Young KCC: So beauty differs from being to being?

Kahn: Beauty is constant. As is the truth. Seek and find what is the truth.Young KCC: What is the truth of man, Master?

Kahn: It has been said that a man is three things: What he thinks he is; What others

think he is; And what he really is. Which one of these do you believe is the truth?

Young KCC: What he really is! But if a man is wrong about himself, and others are

wrong about him, who is left to say what he really is?

Kahn: At what point in time can a man be fixed and frozen, if he is to live and grow?

Young KCC: He must change.

Kahn: As the lowly caterpillar transforms itself into a finer and more beautiful

creature.KF*

Poe: (Master Poe wakes KCC from a restless sleep) What is it, Grasshopper?

KCC: Demons, DEAMONS!! Trying to kill me!Poe: There are no demons here. See for yourself. Only a bad dream.

KCC: Huh, Master. Why do I have such dreams?

Poe: All men have dreams of different types - good and bad. There are the vain

dreams. Futile, based on baseless hopes. There are the dreams that spur and inspire.

Based on aspiration to a higher ideal. And there are the false dreams, based on lies to

oneself or others.

KCC: Which is mine?

Poe: The incense container was the catalyst of your dreams. A fiction frozen to fact,

that summoned forth the demons of your dream.

KCC: My dream was false, then?

Poe: False to you, therefore a nightmare. And yet, to the artist a good and true dream.

For in that fabrication he realized his inner ideal of the perfect dragon.KF*

Kahn: Beware of judgments of others. In this imperfect world in which we live,

perfection is an illusion. And so the standards by which we seek to measure it, are

also, in themselves, illusions. If perfection is measured by age, race, color of skin,

color of hair, physical or mental prowess, then we are all lacking. It is well to

remember that the harshest judgments are reserved for ourselves.KF*

Kahn: (Munks are practicing forms) Simple, controlled movements to begin a

harmony of mind and body. A movement surely of grace and beauty, of serenity. Yet,

strangely, some choose this moment to weep. Tears.

Young KCC: Master, it is all too beautiful. I weep at my good fortune.Kahn: Tell me why.

Young KCC: I stood outside these gates, once. With many other boys. Hoping to

enter this place of peace. Only I was chosen. What if it had not been so?

Kahn: But it was.

Young KCC: Yes. But it might not have been. Where would I have been then?

Kahn: Who can say.

Young KCC: And what of the others. Where are they now?

Kahn: That too, is unknowable for us.

Young KCC: And what of those who may never come here, who will never know this

peace?

Kahn: Do you pity them?Young KCC: Oh, yes!


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Kahn: Please come with meConsider a field of lilies in seed. The wind which

carries the seed plays no favorites. The seeds fall where they will, according to the

fortunes of wind and weather. Those that fall in fertile soil, may be tended and cared

for. Grow strong and bloom. Those that fall in baron soil will die. Yet some will cling

to life in arid places. On hillsides, in deep clefts. And so, the traveler, unsuspecting,

comes upon a sight of beauty. A single lily, growing amid the rocks. The thoughtfultraveler will water this lily in passing. Grateful for its strength, its beauty, its tenacity

to life. And growing in the rocks, as it is, is it not, in its essence, still a lily. And every

bit as beautiful as these.KF*

Young KCC: Master?!

Poe: I am here.

Young KCC: I looked deep into myself. And I saw something which frightened me.

Poe: What did you see, Grasshopper?

Young KCC: I saw dark and fearful shadows in motion. Shadows that shunned the

light.

Poe: Did you put a name to these shadows?

Young KCC: I called them evil.Poe: And what is the nature of evil?

Young KCC: I do not know.

Poe: Do you sometimes feel love, Grasshopper, and joy? Do you sometimes feel pride

in what you have accomplished?

Young KCC: Often, Master.

Poe: And do you sometimes feel good?

Young KCC: Try.

Poe: But the threads that make up our human nature are two ended. There is no

capacity for feeling pride, without an equal capacity for feeling shame. One cannot

feel joy, unless one can feel despair. We have no capacity for good, without and equal

capacity for evil.

Young KCC: Must we not then fear evil?

Poe: Shall we fear our own humanity?

Young KCC: Must we not fight evil?

Poe: Who can defeat himself? For what is evil, but the self seeking to fulfill its own

secret needs. All that is necessary is that we face it, and choose.KF*

Man: You think I do not know. I heard the scratching in the wall. You sealed a

priest in the wall behind my room. Now they listen to me. They listen to me!! I, I, I

cant sleep, thinking about it. I cant sleep.

Kahn: I will help you to sleep (Master Kahn produces a sealed jar of liquid).

Man: No, Poison!! (Master Kahn opens it and drinks. Satisfied, the man drinks).Kahn: When you have rested, we can talk.Young KCC: Master, what besets that man?

Kahn: He has been marked to wander inward. Through and beyond the dark and

terrifying land. Where no road exists. And no sign post points the way.

Young KCC: But why?

Kahn: Who can say?

Young KCC: Should he not be locked in his room?

Kahn: And prevent him from his journey? If he can pass through the trackless land, he

will find peace. His answer, his cure. As far as we are able, we must travel with him.

Help him along the way.

Young KCC: But how? Where there are no roads or sign posts.Kahn: There are steps. His and ours. We take them together. This is our duty, to all


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who are marked as he is.

Young KCC: I should hope then, never to meet another like him.

Kahn: Very often, a wanderer in the trackless land finds that which he sought, and

more. Something of rare value, for the one who shared his journey. Could you risk the

loss of such a benefit?KF*

Young KCC: Why do such fearsome statues stand at the entrance to our peacefulplace?

Poe: These are the threshold guardians, Grasshopper. Set here to keep away those not

ready for the silence within.

Young KCC: Must they be so horrible?

Poe: Those incapable of understanding the way, see things as monsters. Better for

them, never to enter here.

Young KCC: Yet if a man is unafraid of stone, he may pass unhampered.

Poe: He may physically pass. But is his mind is in the outer world, he will leave us, in

time, to rejoin it.KF*

KCC: When a fear becomes strong enough, like another being within you who

fights to stay alive, it is not you who will die, it is your fear [that will die].KF* Kahn: Your heart beats too fast. You must quiet (KCC was meditating). What

frightened you?

Young KCC: I heard the silence, Master. I felt my whole being diffuse, like a cloud.

Then rain fell from the sky. Through me. I was apart of everything. Yet I was myself.

Kahn: You have experienced oneness.

Young KCC: But in this great joy, I felt as if I was dying. It frightened me.

Kahn: You know the lesson of the silk worm?

Young KCC: Silk worm dies. The moth lives. Yet they are not two separate beings,

but one in the same.

Kahn: It is the same with man. His false beliefs must die. So that he may know the joy

of the way. What you felt in the silence was real. Something in you is dying. It is

called ignorance.KF*

Kahn: Young Caine. Do I see a scar of anger on your face?

Young KCC: I do not like to be a servant.

Kahn: Oh, you consider it beneath you to serve another?

Young KCC: How am I to answer? I do not know what it is like to be served.

Kahn: Do not the ancients say that rank and reward have no appeal, for a man one

with himself?

Young KCC: Yet, you Master are served, and therefore greater.

Kahn: Smaller. I have taken without true respect for what you have given. We must

both learn. Please, sit here. (KCC sits in the masters spot)Young KCC: It does not seem right.Kahn: It is my joy, Master.KF*

Kahn: It was my pleasure to wash them for you (Master Kahn continues to serveKCC by washing his clothes).Young KCC: They were very dirty from my work in the garden.

Kahn: Yes, but no more.

Young KCC: I am very grateful (he bows).

Kahn: And I to you, for allowing me to be of service. If in serving one is served. And

in being served, one also serves. Are these not the folds of the same garment?

Young KCC: I do not understand. I am pleased you have done my wash. And

ashamed that I have not done it myself.Kahn: Again. You have taught me.


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Young KCC: How?

Kahn: A man truly himself will not enrich his own interests, and make a virtue of

poverty. He goes his own way, without depending on others. Yet is not arrogant that

he needs no one. The greatest man is nobody.KF*

Kahn: Do you see yourself (Starring in a pool of water, KCC still ponders the

servitude issue)?Young KCC: Too clearly master. I feel shame for wanting to be more than I am.

Kahn: The sage says "That which shrinks, must first expand. That which fails, must

first be strong. That which is cast down, must first be raised. Before receiving, there

must first be giving."

Young KCC: It was pride that kept me bowing to you.

Kahn: Is it not easy to bow, and still honor oneself?

Young KCC: Can it truly be for you?

Kahn: Truly (He bows).Young KCC: But you are important. I am not.

Kahn: Are we not equally important, and not important.

Young KCC: How is that possible, when you are my master?Kahn: I am old. You are young. I am wrinkled. You are smooth. Do these things

change the nature that we share? Look beyond the surface. See what is real. In

yourself and others.KF*

Poe: Im with you Grasshopper. Be calm. Perhaps you would like to tell me of

your dream.

Young KCC: There was an animal. A beast. A very strange beast.

Poe: Oh. Did he have more than one head?

Young KCC: No Master.

Poe: An excess of legs?

Young KCC: No.

Poe: You said he was strange.

Young KCC: His shoulders were like mounds. His head did not rise above them. He

was like an Ox, yet he was not an Ox.

Poe: Was he of great size?

Young KCC: No master. No higher than my chin. And most gentle. I could tell he

was very young. And he was frightened of something.

Poe: And you were frightened for him?

Young KCC: Yes. This is not like other dreams I have had. Even now, I feel as if it

was real. And I was truly there.

Poe: Perhaps you were, Grasshopper. Or perhaps, you will be.

Young KCC: But I know it was a dream.Poe: Do you? Have I been here at your side, and am I leaving you now to drift back to

sleep? Or has this too, been a dream?

CONTINUED

Poe: Grasshopper?

Young KCC: Yes, Master?

Poe: It is I, or a dream?

Young KCC: It is you Master, as it truly was last night.

Poe: I will accept your judgment.

Young KCC: After you left, I remembered more of the dream. And of the strangebeast, that was so frightened.


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Poe: Yes?!

Young KCC: He tried to speak to me. He tried again and again. But he was unable.

Then he turned and was gone.

Poe: Did he simply disappear?

Young KCC: No. He passed through a red door.

Poe: Is it your wish to enter? (They stand in front of a room with a red door)Young KCC: Yes. I will then know what the gentle beast was trying so hard to say.

Poe: Lets see. Ill follow you (They enter).

Young KCC: It is only an empty chamber. Has it no purpose?

Poe: Let us call it, the chamber of the answer. Tell me what you see?

Young KCC: Only a red door (The room is empty).

Poe: Does it lie before you?

Young KCC: Yea.

Poe: Ahhh. Then that is where your answer must be waiting. Behind the red door

(Poe closed the door they just walked through).

Young KCC: But IBut I am behind it.

Poe: Are you?

CONTINUED

Poe: Do not fear. She will be taken care of. She is about to bring forth a new life (Awoman is in labor).Young KCC: I know, Master. I heard her baby cry.

Poe: That ismost unusual.

Young KCC: Do I deceive myself? Could such a thing truly happen?

Poe: It was you who heard. Life calls to life.

Young KCC: A baby, not yet born, calls to me. I do not understand.

Poe: Nor do I. But how beautiful.

CONTINUED

Poe: Grasshopper?

Young KCC: Yes, Master?

Poe: You sit very still.

Young KCC: I listen for the cry of new life.

Poe: Soon. The womans time approaches swiftly

Young KCC: The life she will bring forth will live.

Poe: That is our wish.Young KCC: I know it master.

Poe: Yes, you do. Strange. A thing of wonderment. You and this infant, not yet born.

You are as candle and flame. Separate, and not separate.

Young KCC: There must be others bound together in this fashion?

Poe: I would not disagree.

Young KCC: Perhaps then, there are couplings beyond couplings?

Poe: I would not disagree.

Young KCC: Do you think, could it be that all men are bound together, and all

things?

Poe: There is not reason to believe so. Nor reason not to believe so.

Young KCC: How can we learn the answer?Poe: That is simple. Do not seek it.KF*


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KCC: You once told me my present is rooted in my past.

Poe: And it is through those roots we draw our nourishment and strength.

KCC: Do not the roots then also, form the future?

Poe: Uprooted, can the tree flourish and bear fruit? Without the fruit, what may bear

the seeds of future generations? And thus, fulfill the ordained cycle of eternity.

KCC: Then my future is rooted in my past. And half my roots are across the sea, inAmerica. How will I find my place?

Poe: Time and your Tao (Dow) will tell you that, Grasshopper.KF*

Kahn: Had you good cause to risk this danger? (Older KCC and older monk

fought/sparred unsupervised)

KCC: My purpose was to prove my agility, and my courage.

Kahn: I had hoped such qualities were already yours.

KCC: I sought to test them.

Kahn: For yourself, or them (younger monks observed the match)? It is better to seeyourself truly, then care about how others see you.

KCC: If I look truly, will I see truly?KF*

Kahn: A picture of the world we live in. Now you will tear your papers, thus.When you are finished, you will reassemble the pieces in their properplace (They aretearing up a map of the world).Young KCC: Master Kahn? I have finished, Master.

Kahn: So swiftly? It is correct. In all respects. How did you do it, my son?

Young KCC: It was not difficult, Master. On the other side was a picture of a man. I

put the man together, and the world was remade at the same time.

Kahn: The man. The world. The wholeness of each, seems related.

Young KCC: And all men, added together. Do they not make up the world we live

in?KF*

(CUT OFF ON TAPE)

Young KCC: ROAR!!!!

Kahn: Happy New Year, honorable demon.

Young KCC: Why do you not tremble before me?

Kahn: Is the disciple Caine then so fearful?

Young KCC: How did you know?

Kahn: Your Chi is not that of a demon, Kwai Chang. Only a mask. Thus while you

appear to be a demon, your inner energies betray who you really are.

Young KCC: I suppose the trouble is I dont really want to be a demon.

Kahn: You have hit on a profound truth. Can you not tell me what it is?

Young KCC: I must first decide who and what I want to be.

Kahn: And then? In order to achieve that ideal?Young KCC: I must become one with it.

Kahn: Posses and be possessed by it. Until you are what you will to be, and not

merely a mask. Attempting to deceive yourself and others.KF*

Poe: You are the new student. Come closer.

Young KCC: You cannot see.

Poe: You think I cannot see.

Young KCC: Of all things, to live in darkness must be the worst.

Poe: Fear is the only darkness. Take your broom and strike me with it. Do as I tell

you, STRIKE! (Misses). Again. (Misses again, and is disarmed). Here, catch. (Poe

laughs). Never assume because a man has no eyes he cannot see. Close your eyes.

What do you hear?Young KCC: I hear the water. I hear the birds.


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Poe: Do you hear your own heart beat.

Young KCC: No.

Poe: Do you hear the grasshopper, which is at your feet.

Young KCC: Old man, how is it that you hear these things?

Poe: Young man, how is it that you do n

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