"Stone is a forehead where dreams moan, holding no curved water, no frozen cypress." "Stone is a shoulder meant to carry time, with trees of tears and ribbons and planets." "Because stone gathers seeds and banks of cloud, skeletons of larks, wolves dimming into shadow, but yields no sound, no crystal, no fire - yields, only endless bullrings without walls." "THE BLUE BULL" "And Juan Belmonte said:" ""As soon as the bull came out I went to it and at the third pass I heard the clamour of the crowd standing up." "What had I done?" "At once I forgot the crowd, the other bullfighters, myself  and even the bull." "I started to fight as I had done so often in the yards and meadows, with the same exactness as if I would have been drawing a picture in a blackboard..."" ""The sword doesn't have self will, it's nothing but emptiness." "It's like the sparkle of a lightning." "The man about to be beaten is also emptiness just like the man who handles the sword." "As they are emptiness the man who beats is not a man, the sword in his hands is not a sword and the "self" about to be beaten is like the cut of the spring breeze in the sparkle of a lightning." "When the mind is not fixed the flourishing sword is like the wind blowing." "The wind is not conscious of itself, when it blows over the trees wreaks havocs on them." "Thus happens with the sword." Master Takuan, xvii c." "And José Tomás said:" ""Courage is letting the mind sleep so that the spirit may fight in freedom"." "Don't evade the form." "Repeat ad nauseam." "You have to get rid of the weight." "You have to sense everything not having anything." "That's the essence of inner bullfight." "Absolute selfness." "A ritual full and tight." "A place to get lost."