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Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

In combat, spontaneity rules; rote performance of technique perishes.

The more complicated and restricted the method, the less opportunity for expression of one’s original sense of freedom.

There’s so much myth and baloney. Like a 80-year-old man able to manhandle a 300-pounder with his little finger. Ridiculous. Or this matter of breaking bricks and boards wth the edge of your hand. Now I ask you, did you ever see a brick or a board pick a fight with anybody?

You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him.

A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will.

If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.

Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.

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

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.

We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem.

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

To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousn ess.

The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires.

There are too many stars and too few actors.

Put every great teacher in a room, and they’d agree about everything, but put their disciples in there and they’d argue about everything.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear.

The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body’s action and master your will more easily.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

As long as we separate this oneness into two we won’t achieve realization.

What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds ‘body feel’ and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.

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Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted.

The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition.

Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

Either you understand or you don’t, and that is that.

When you fight, if it is a real fight, use every tool that you have, use your whole body. Use your fists, your legs, your fingers, your head if you have to, and hit them in every vulnerable spot, the balls, the eyes etc. to win.

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I have come to understand that life is best to be lived and not to be conceptualized. I am happy because I am growing daily and I am honestly not knowing where the limit lies.

Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that.

A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready.

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down.

Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing.

The core of understanding lies in the individual mind, and until that is touched everything is uncertain and superficial. Truth cannot be perceived until we come to fully understand our potential and ourselves. After all, knowledge in the martial arts ultimately means self-knowledge.

Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day.

The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups.

To tolerate is to insult.

If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don’t fuss over it.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

The more relaxed the muscles are, the more energy can flow through the body. Using muscular tensions to try to ‘do’ the punch or attempting to use brute force to knock someone over will only work to opposite effect.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement.

More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself – and that’s about it.

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