Bruce Lee has been a great guide in helping me to progress beyond blue.
"The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. When he acts, he is translating every living moment in terms of the old.”
“Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns. Forms are vain repetitions which offer an orderly and beautiful escape from self- knowledge with an alive opponent.”
“Stylists, instead of looking directly into the fact, cling to forms (theories) and go on entangling themselves further and further, finally putting themselves into an inextricable snare.”
“Classical forms dull your creativity, condition and freeze your sense of freedom. You no longer “be,” but merely “do,” without sensitivity.”
“If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow— you are not understanding yourself. If you meet the unconventional attack, such as one delivered with broken rhythm, with your chosen patterns of rhythmical classical blocks, your defense and counterattack will always be lacking pliability and aliveness.”
“To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the “old”, you derive security; from the “new”, you gain the flow.”
“Understand the freedom from the conformity of styles. Free yourself by observing closely what you normally practice. Do not condemn or approve; merely observe.”
“Do not deny the classical approach simply as a reaction, for you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.”
“Truth is living and, therefore, changing.”
“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.”
– Bruce Lee, (The Tao of Jeet Kune Do).
