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"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."

"Give up thinking as though not giving it up.
Observe the techniques as though not observing."

"Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as reality
- in your own mind!"

"While being trained, the student is to be active
and dynamic in every way. But in actual combat,
his mind must be calm and not at all disturbed."

"If you do not first empty the cup,
how could you enjoy my cup of tea?."

"Nothing bothers an adversary more than variety
in both attack and defense, and it eases
physical strain by shifting the onus of exertion
from one group of muscles to another."

"Expose yourself to various conditions and learn."

"There must be emotional expression
or emotional content in your technique."

"There can be no different style of fighting...
we have only two hands and two legs!"

"When you freely express you are the total style."

"The great mistake is anticipating the outcome
of an engagement. Let nature take it's course, and
your tools will strike at the right time."

"Use no limitation as limitation,
and use no method as method."

"Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that
it can assume all forms and, since it has no style,
Jeet Kune Do fits in with all styles."

"A quality martial artist is always ready for any move
and trains oneself invincible."

"Not being tense but ready, not thinking but not dreaming,
not being set but flexible - It is being wholly and quietly alive,
aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."

"In this art, effiency is anything that scores."

"Truth has no path. Truth is living, and therefore, changing.
It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution,
no philosophy."

"Remember, too, that Jeet Kune Do is
merely a term, a label to be used as a boat
to get one across; once across, it is to be
discarded and not carried on one's back."

"Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush.
It follows a straight line to the objective.
Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points."

"Possess the eye of an eagle, the cunning of a fox,
the agility and alertness of a cat with the courage,
aggressiveness and fierceness of a panther,
the striking power of a cobra and the
resistance of a mongoose."

"Turn into a doll made of wood. it has no ego
it thinks nothing, it is not grasping or sticky
Let the body and limbs work themselves
out in accordance with the discipline they have undergone."

"Learning Jeet Kune Do is not a matter seeking knowledge or accumulating stylized pattern, but is discovering the cause of ignorance."

"Relationship is understanding. It is the process of self-revelation. Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself -- To be is to be related."

"Wisdom does not consist of trying to wrest the good from the evil but in learning to ride them as a cork adapts itself to the crests and troughs of the waves."

"The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments. There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience."

"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."

"Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped."

"The art of Jeet Kune Do is simply to simplify. Jeet Kune Do avoids the superficial, penetrates the complex, goes to the heart of the problem and pinpoints the key factors. Empty your cup that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."

"When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself."

"A Jeet Kune Do man faces reality and not crystallization of form. The tool is a tool of formless form. Self-expression is total, immediate, without conception of time, and you can only express that if you are free, physically and mentally, from fragmentation."

"The Jeet Kune Do man should be on the alert to meet the interchangeability of opposites. As soon as his mind "stops" with either of them, it loses its own fluidity. A Jeet Kune Do man should keep his mind always in the state of emptiness so that his freedom in action will never be obstructed."

"Jeet Kune Do, ultimately, is not a matter of petty technique but of highly developed personal spirituality and physique. It is not a question of developing what has already been developed but of recovering what has been left behind. These things have been with us, in us, all the time and have never been lost or distorted except by our misguided manipulation of them. Jeet Kune Do is not a matter of technology but of spiritual insight and training."

"I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves."

"Art is an expression of life and transcends both time and space. We must employ our own souls through art to give a new form and a new meaning to nature or the world. "Artless art" is the artistic process within the artist; its meaning is "art of the soul."

"The aims of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world."

"Art reveals itself in psychic understanding of the inner essence of things and gives form to the relation of man with nothing, with the nature of the absolute."

"Creation in art is the psychic unfolding of the personality, which is rooted in the nothing. Its effect is a deepening of the personal dimension of the soul."

"Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities--thoght, feeling, will--to the life rhythm of hte world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it."

"Artistic skill, therefore, does not mean artistic perfection. It remains rather a continuing medium or reflection of some step in psychic development, the perfection of which is not to be found in shape and form, but must radiate from the human soul."

This page was made by Christopher K in July 2002. It was last updated on 22 September - 2006

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