Sunday, December 18, 2005

Bruce lee

Well the chronic has struck again. Sunday morning and i'm reading up on Bruce Lee. This man had some intense shit to say. For example :
"When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style."

"Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him."

"The combatant should be alive in sparring, throwing punches and kicks from all angles, and should not be a co-operative robot. Like water, sparring should be formless. Pour water into a cup, it becomes part of the cup. Pour it into a bottle; it becomes part of the bottle. Try to kick or punch it, it is resilient; clutch it and it will yield without hesitation. In fact, it will escape as pressure is being applied to it. How true it is that nothingness cannot be confined. The softest thing cannot be snapped."

What i like most about his philosophy is how well it transcribes to pretty much anything. I really like the water theory. Infinitely adaptable, in some ways water seems like the perfect molecule.

2 Comments:

Blogger mi said...

How true it is that nothingness cannot be confined. The softest thing cannot be snapped.

that's my favorite part.

oh!

8:43 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

H2O is without a doubt my favourite molecule...

12:55 PM  

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