Bruce Lee
Did you watch How Bruce Lee Changed the World on the History Channel? For fans, seeing a compilation of this charismatic master of movement is always awesome. However, the very title of the documentary, provocative and grandiose, and the fact that it was on the History Channel, set up intellectual expectations that were quickly dashed [...]
Meeting Bruce Lee A hero dies, time flies. It’s been thirty six years since on a visit to Hong Kong, I stopped Bruce Lee as he came out of a restaurant. We talked for a few minutes as movie executives waited for him in a limo. Several months later in Boston Chinatown as I went [...]
“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 [...]
“Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher’s help.” ~ Bodhidharma We received a thoughtful inquiry from one of our evolving martial artists in India. It motivated us to address this question: is the traditional meaning of master and student gone? The Student Yoda and Skywalker, Merlin and Arthur, Grasshopper and Master [...]
One of our evolving martial artists, Arnuld, commented in response to our Bruce Lee Mythology post. He asked if Bruce Lee invented the ideas of having no style and formless technique. Here are some thoughts: Lee’s Influence Bruce Lee was influential in modernizing traditional martial arts through his Jeet Kune Do philosophy. He was innovative, [...]
