Here are what Bruce Lee told us...

8 Kung Fu is like water all-pervasive.

功夫就如水一樣無處不在。

 

8 Kung Fu teaches is the method to settle the problem in one rapid action. My action is your action, my technique is the conclusion of your technique.

功夫教給我們的是那種如何在一瞬間解決問題的方法。我的動作就是你的動作,我的技術就是你技術的總結!

 

8 A series of attacks like flowing water, unstoppable.

連串的攻擊就像流水一樣,不會停下來的。

 

8 Jeet Kune Do - It is having no limitation as limitation .

以無限為有限——這就是「截拳道」。

 

8 Jeet Kune Do uses no way as way. The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action.

「截拳道」以無法為有法。「有我」是對作出完整動作的最大障礙。

 

8 There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.

「截拳道」從來沒有規範的教法,但我可以對每個毛病提供最好的藥物。

 

8 The aim 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.

 

8 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".

 

8 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.

 

8 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.

 

8 Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

 

8 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.

 

8 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.

 

8 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.

 

8 The tools are at an undifferentiated center of a circle that has no circumference, moving and yet not moving, in tension and yet relaxed, seeing everything happening and yet not at all anxious about its outcome, with nothing purposely designed, nothing consciously calculated, no anticipation, no expectation - in short, standing innocently like a baby and yet, with all the cunning, subterfuge and keen intelligence of a fully mature mind.

 

8 I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. Bruce Lee 1940 - 1973.