A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.
Ju jitsu is very Buddhist. All that we fear we hold close to ourselves to survive. So if you're drowning and you see a corpse floating by, hang on to it because it will rescue you.
Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.