Six Principles

1. Be deadly serious in training. Your opponent must always be present in your mind, whether you sit or stand or walk or raise your arms. Should you strike a blow in combat, you must have no doubt whatsoever that the strike will decide everything. If you make an error, you will be the one who falls. You must always be prepared for such an eventuality.
2. Train with your heart and soul, without concerning yourself too much about theory. Very often, the man who lacks that essential quality of deadly seriousness will take refuge in theory. For example, the horse-riding stance looks extremely easy. But the fact is, no beginner could possibly master it, even if he practiced every day for an entire year. What nonsense it is then for a man to complain that after a couple of months practice, he is incapable of mastering an entire form.
3. The martial arts consists of a great number of basic techniques, skills, forms, and fighting methods that no human being is capable of assimilating in a short space of time. Further, unless you understand each technique completely, you will never be able to remember all of the various skills and forms. All are interrelated, and if you fail to understand each completely, you will fail in the long run. But once you have completely mastered one technique, you will realize its close relation with other techniques. You will, in other words, come to understand that all of the more than 60 forms in Tukong Moosul are equally important. If, therefore, you become a master of one form, you will soon gain an understanding of all the others.
4. Avoid self-conceit and dogmatism. A man who brags in booming tones or swaggers down the street as though he owned it will never earn true respect, even though he may actually be very capable in the martial arts. It is even more absurd to hear the self-aggrandizing of one who is without capability. Within the martial arts, it is usually the beginner who cannot resist the temptation to brag or show off. By doing so, he dishonors not only himself, but also his chosen art.
5. Try to see yourself as you truly are and try to adopt what is meritorious in the work of others. As a martial artist, you will often watch others train. When you do, and you see strong points in their performance, try to incorporate them into your own technique. At the same time, if your fellow martial artists seem to be doing less than their best, ask yourself whether you, too, may be failing to practice with diligence. All of us have good and bad qualities. The wise man seeks to emulate the good he perceives in others and avoid the bad.
6. Abide by these rules in your daily life, whether in public or in private. This is a principle that demands the strictest observation.