Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationship to man etc. Then he becomes a slave to the patter and takes the pattern to be the real thing. You just wait. Im going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world. Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own Dont get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle 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. Using no way as way. Having no limitation as your only limitation. Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself. Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind. In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature. Having totality means being capable of following what is, because what is is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of what is. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water, and when youre tired, go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand. Be like water making its way through crack. Do not be assertive but adjust to the object and you shall find a way round it or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid outward thigs will disclose themselves. Moving be like water. Still be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is. Im moving and not moving at all. Im like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, I am doing this, but rather, an inner realization that this is happening through me, or it is doing this for me. The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. Ricorda, amico mio, che non è tanto importante quello che ti succede, ma come reagisci agli eventi. Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings. In the middle of chaos lies opportunity--Bruce Lee Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged. There is no mystery about my style. My movements are simple, direct and non-classical. The extraordinary part of it lies in its simplicity. Every movement in Jeet Kune-Do is being so of itself. There is nothing artificial about it. I always believe that the easy way is the right way. if you want to be immortal live a life worth remembering Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for a difficult on with the strength to endure it. Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate. Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady. ...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge?...to put the heart of martial arts inyour own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension and the use of a free style. When you have that you will know that there are no limits. Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into ones own being - these are synonymous. Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing. In Life There are No Limits, Only Plateaus. I fear not the man that can throw a thousand different kicks once, but the man who can throw one kick a thousand times. I am not afraid of an opponent who practiced ten thousand kicks once. What I am afraid of is an opponent who practiced one kick, ten thousand times
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:52:55 +0000