Mind-Sword by Dr. Haha Lung

Author:Dr. Haha Lung
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2012-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

SUKI-JITSU: SEEKING THE “UNGUARDED MOMENT”

“The good Fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. . . . To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity. of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

—Sun Tzu89

In his (1975) Zen in the Martial Arts, author Joe Hyams relates how Bruce Lee taught him it’s always better (and actually easier) to improve yourself than it is trying to make others appear worse (thereby making yourself falsely appear “better” by default).

It’s no secret Bruce Lee was a voracious student of all things strategic in general, and an admirer of Musashi and Sun Tzu in particular.

Sun Tzu’s adage quoted above90 breaks down into two distinct tasks:

First, we must make ourselves stronger and more secure, putting ourselves “beyond the possibility of defeat.”

Then, we wait and watch for our enemy to drop his guard.

So strongly did Sun Tzu feel about this point—first making ourselves invulnerable, then taking advantage of any lapse we detect in our enemy—that he actually repeats this advice later on, in chapter XIII, verse 11:

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