Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975), p. 25
Bruce Lee, nom de scène de Lee Jun-fan , né dans le quartier de Chinatown à San Francisco aux États-Unis le 27 novembre 1940 et mort d'un œdème cérébral à Hong Kong le 20 juillet 1973, est un artiste martial, réalisateur, acteur, producteur , scénariste sino-américain.
Son père, Lee Hoi Chuen, était une star de l'opéra chinois. Parallèlement à sa carrière d'acteur, Bruce Lee a créé son propre art martial, le jeet kune do. Il est considéré comme le plus grand maître d'arts martiaux dans le cinéma mondial du XXe siècle et il a ouvert la voie à d'autres acteurs asiatiques comme Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Tony Jaa ou occidentaux comme Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, David Carradine, ainsi que Chuck Norris.
Par ses contributions dans le cinéma et la télévision, Bruce Lee incarne pour beaucoup l'homme fort atteignant le sommet de la perfection physique et l'invincibilité au combat à mains nues. Sa notoriété a eu un rôle important dans l'intérêt du grand public occidental pour les arts martiaux chinois. Sa mort prématurée à l'âge de 32 ans a contribué à le faire entrer dans la légende du cinéma et des arts martiaux et, à Hong Kong, elle a donné naissance à toute une mode de films essayant de se vendre comme des films de Bruce Lee : la « Bruceploitation ». En 2014, il est la dixième célébrité décédée ayant généré le plus de revenus.
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Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do (1975), p. 25
“Running water never grows stale. So you just have to 'keep on flowing.”
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 48
“If you think a thing is impossible, you'll only make it impossible.”
Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 13; Unsourced variant: 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.
Contexte: Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENNESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.
Variante: But neither can you condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on.
You can never invite the wind but you must leave the window open.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 13
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Contexte: You cannot force the Now. — But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open.
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (1955)
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973); In a training session with one of the temple students.
Variante: Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory.
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“Possession of anything begins in the mind.”
Part 6 "Beyond System — The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do"
Jeet Kune Do (1997)
Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Variante: All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
“Knowledge earns you power, character earns you respect.”
Variante: Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 46
“Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.”
Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Variante: Using no way as way; Having no limitation as limitation.
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Source: The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee (1996), p. 112, "To further emphasize this principle [of transcending all styles and forms], Lee placed Chinese characters around the circumference of his jeet kune do emblem that read"
As quoted in "From Wing Chun to Jeet Kune Do" by Jesse R. Glover in Black Belt Vol. 31, No. 9 (September 1993), p. 35
Bruce Lee livre Tao of Jeet Kune Do
Variante: In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand.
Source: Tao of Jeet Kune Do