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.
I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting.
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.
Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!
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.
The moment is freedom. – I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.
Endurance is lost rapidly if one ceases to work at its maximum.
The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
The timeless moment. – The “moment” has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time.
I did what I came here to do. What I’ve done I’ve done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can’t expect much more from life.
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.
Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves.
One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don’t work, then introduce the more complex ones.
To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure.
The measure of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being.
Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship.
When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.
An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.
Either you understand or you don’t, and that is that.