Obey the principle without being bound by it. LEARN, MASTER AND ACHIEVE!!!
Knowledge in martial arts actually means self-knowledge.
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.
The understanding of JKD is through personal feeling from movement to movement in the mirror of the relationship and not through a process of isolation.
To be is to be related. To isolate is death.
To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.
Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that.
I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement.
But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do.
Question: What are your thoughts when facing an opponent?
- Bruce: There is no opponent.
- Bruce: Because the word ''l'' does not exist.
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.
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.
- Bruce Lee Philosophy
