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Favorite
quotes from Bruce Lee:
Be like
water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust
to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If
nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
Empty your mind, be
formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it
becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the
bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water
can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend.
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Question: What are your thoughts when facing
an opponent?
Bruce: There is no opponent.
Question: Why is that?
Bruce: Because the word ''l'' does not exist.
A good fight should be like a small play...but played seriously.
When the opponent expands, l contract. When he contracts, l expand.
And when there is an opportunity... l do not hit...it hits all by
itself (shows his fist).
Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when
the mind is obsessed with it.
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Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not
being set but being flexible. It is being "wholly" and
quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
The danger of training with the heavy bag is that it doesn't react
to ones attack and sometimes there is a tendency to thoughtlessness.
One will punch the bag carelessly, and would be vulnerable in a
real situation if this became a habit.
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The highest technique is to have no technique. My technique is a
result of your technique; my movement is a result of your movement.
A good
Jeet Kune-Do man does not oppose force or give way completely. He
is pliable as a spring; he is the complement and not the opposition
to his opponents strength. He has no technique; he makes his
opponent's technique his technique. He has no design; he makes opportunity
his design.
One should
not respond to circumstance with artificial and "wooden"
prearrangement. Your action should be like the immediacy of a shadow
adapting to its moving object. Your task is simply to complete the
other half of the oneness spontaneously.
In combat,
spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.
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"Like everyone
else you want to learn the way to win. But never to accept the way
to lose. To accept defeat to learn to die is to be
liberated from it. Once you accept, you are free to flow and to
harmonize. Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your
ambitious mind and learn the art of dying."
Bruce Lee
Although Lee is
best known as a martial artist and actor, he majored in philosophy
at the University of Washington. He was well-read and had an extensive
library. His own books on martial arts and fighting philosophy are
known for their philosophical assertions both inside and outside
of martial arts circles. His eclectic philosophy often mirrored
his fighting beliefs, though he was quick to claim that his martial
arts were solely a metaphor for such teachings. He believed that
any knowledge ultimately led to self-knowledge, and said that his
chosen method of self-expression was martial arts. His influences
include Taoism, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Buddhism. Lee was an atheist.
When asked in 1972 what his religious affiliation was, he replied
"none whatsoever," and expressed disbelief in God.
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