Bruce Lee by Bruce Lee

Author:Bruce Lee
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8048-3263-2
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

A style is a classified response to one’s chosen inclination.

Before we look into JKD, let’s find out what exactly is a classical style or martial art. To begin with, we must realize the absolute fact that man created styles. Disregard the many colorful origins of their founders—by a wise, mysterious monk, by special messenger in a dream, in a holy revelation, and so forth. A style should never be the gospel truth, the laws and principles of which can never be violated. Man, the live, creative human being, is always more important than any established, set style.

Let’s say a long time ago a martial artist was exposed to some partial truth. Even if in his process of discovery he had not attempted to organize this partial truth, which has been such a common tendency in man’s search for security and certainty in life, after he died, “his” hypothesis, “his” partial inclination, “his” postulates, and, most likely, “his” concluding formula (we constantly learn, we never conclude) would be turned into a law by his students and followers. Impressive creeds would be invented, solemn reinforcing ceremonies prescribed, separative philosophy and patterns would be formulated, and so forth, and so on, and finally an institution would be erected. So what might have started off as some sort of personal fluidity on the part of its founder has now become solidified, fixed knowledge— organized and classified responses presented in logical order—a sort of preserved cure-all for mass conditioning. In so doing, the well-meaning, loyal followers have made this knowledge not only a holy shrine, but a tomb in which the founder’s wisdom is buried.

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