Kung Fu (TV Series)

The Spirit-Helper (1973)

Keye Luke: Master Po

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Quotes 

• Young Caine : And what is it to be a man?

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

  Young Caine : But what is the universe?

  Master Po : Rather ask: 'What is not the universe?'

  Young Caine : Then it is everywhere.

  Master Po : 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 Caine : And the bitter pit at its core?

  Master Po : Even that.

• Master Po : [regarding the red-hot urn filled with burning coal]  Your final test, the urn of the two symbols: the dragon and the tiger. When you can walk in this corridor, the inner path to the outer world, and can push the urn aside with your forearms you will bear its markings with you for the rest of your life.

  Kwai Chang Caine : Hundreds of pounds of burning coal and iron. How can I Master, having only the strength of a man and the weaknesses?

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

  Kwai Chang Caine : I do not understand.

  Master Po : 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.

  Kwai Chang Caine : How?

  Master Po : By slowly forging the chi within yourself, the bond between the finite and infinite, the inner essence of your spirit, and the limitless power of the universe.

  Kwai Chang Caine : How can I do this?

  Master Po : You will have found your strength and the source of your survival. You will be free.