"Kung Fu": TV Series, The Soul is the Warrior

#5 (Prod #166145) "The Soul Is the Warrior"
Teleplay By:: Ron Bishop
Directed By:: Richard Lang (also 17, 19, 22, 24, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37-38, 39, 42, 45-6)
First Broadcast: ABC, February 8, 1973
Guest Stars: John Doucette, Shelly Novack (also #36), Jim Davis (also #16) Special Guest Star: Pat Hingle
Regular Cast: David Carradine, Philip Ahn, Keye Luke, Radames Pera

The search for Danny leads Caine to a man who tries to take revenge on the brother for what he feels Danny did to him. When this man tries to shoot Caine, a sheriff interferes and brings down on himself the wrath of the man's father.

Pilot & First Season
Available on DVD

"Each journey begins and also ends." - Master Po

". . . the journey through life. . . begins and it ends. Yet fresh journeys go forth. Father begets son who becomes in turn father who begets son." - Po

". . . seek first to know your own journey's beginning and end; seek then the other journeys of which you are a close part. But in this seeking know patience. Wear their traveler's cloak which shelters and permits you to endure." - Master Po

"I wish no trouble." - Caine

"'When you leave these walls, you will come upon the many pillars of violence.' - Kan
'May not a man one with nature seeing such pillars avoid them?' - Caine
'Other men stumble in the way. They go in idlest search of peace.' - Kan
'Must I then tumble down these pillars?' - Caine
'Seek always peace. Wear no path for the footsteps of others unless the soul is endangered. We are all linked by our souls. To endanger one endangers all.' - Master Kan
'And if endangered, Master?' - Caine
'In such times the soul must be the warrior.' - Master Kan

"'What the eye sees disappears with a blink or a wandering puff of breath. Where there was light the eye, denied, sees nothing. What the soul sees cannot be denied.' - Master Kan
'Will not the soul, too, see nothing when death blinks its eye?' - Caine
'No. The soul sees always.' - Kan
'Yet the body dies.' - Caine
'Does the sun die?' - Kan
'It does not shine at night.' - Caine
'It shines somewhere. You do not see it.'" - Master Kan

"Each journey of a man crosses this path and each man sees death in his own mirror." - Caine

"It does not end. The journey goes on from one time to another. Nothing dies that was ever something." - Caine

"'Who are you?'
'A man. Not afraid if that is what you want to know.'" - Caine

"Discipline your body, Grasshopper, that you may find a greater power. . . . Those who surrender themselves find inner strength...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." - Master Po

"'How does one find the strength within himself?' - Caine
'By being one with all that is without himself.'" - Master Po

"That prevails which refuses to know the power of the other. Where fear is, does not danger also live? And where fear is not, does not danger also die? Where the tiger and the man are two, he may die. Yet where the tiger and the man are one there is no fear. There is no danger. For what creature, one with all nature, will attack itself." - Master Po

". . . be yourself and never fear thus to be naked to the eyes of others. Yet know that men so often mask themselves 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." - Master Po

Danny left this town two weeks before Kwai Chang got there.

Kwai Chang acquires a watch of Danny's here and so now should have two watches (one from his great grandfather which his grandfather gave him in "Dark Angel"), and yet he never has anything on him worth taking whenever he is searched.

"Courage, cowardice. These are but words of an orphaned moment. Think only of the goal of your beginning. Be neither brave nor afraid, but at peace." - Master Kan^*2*p12

"Discipline the body...that you may know the person." - Master Kan^*2*p21