On ZEN
I am typing this so please excuse any mistakes... Taken from Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee: ***NOTE: Recently there has been discoveries of Bruce Lee's book that his work has been taken from other very significant people from the martial arts society. DT Suzuki is one of them... Bruce Lee was a great but a lot of his work wasn't credited and he got the credit... If anyone wishes to know more on this topic contact me! --------------------------------------------------- To obtain enlightenment in martial arts means the extinctino of everything which obscures "true knowledge", the "real life." At the same time it implies boundless expansion and, indeed, emphasis should fall not on the cultivation of the particular department which merges into the totality, but rather on the totality that enters and unites that particular department. -- The way to transcend karma lies in the proper use of the mind and the will. The oneness of all life is a truth that can be fully realized only when false notions of a seperate self, whose destiny can be considered apart from the whole, are forever annihilated. -- Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite -- there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all things. -- Turn into a doll made of wood: it has no ego, it thinks nothing, it is not grasping or sticky. Let the body and limbs work themselves out in accordance with the discipline they have undergone. -- If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. -- Nothingness cannot be defined; the sof-*test*-('") thing cannot be snapped. -- I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the grea-*test*-('") hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. -- The localization of the mind means its freezing. When it ceases to flow freely as it is needed, it is no more the mind in its suchnes. -- The "Immovable" is the concentration of energy at a given focus, as at the axis of a wheel, instead of dispersal in scattered activities. -- The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments. There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience. -- To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity. -- Art reaches its grea-*test*-('") peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make. -- The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference adn heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand before you, never be for or against. THe struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease. -- Wisdom does not consist of trying to wrest the good from the evil but in learning to "ride" them as a cork adapts itself to the crests and troughs of the waves. -- Let yourself go with the diseas, be with it, keep company with it -- this is the way to be rid of it. -- An assertion is Zen only when it is itself an act and does not refer to anything that is asserted in it. --- In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort,. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, moves bowels, pass water and when your're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will at me, but the wise will understand. -- Establish nothing in regard to oneself. Pass quickly like the non-existent and be quiet as purity. Those who gain lose. Do not precede others, always follow them. -- Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected. -- Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing. -- There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.
I am typing this so please excuse any mistakes... Taken from Tao of Jeet Kune Do by Bruce Lee: ***NOTE: Recently there has been discoveries of Bruce Lee's book that his work has been taken from other very significant people from the martial arts society. DT Suzuki is one of them... Bruce Lee was a great but a lot of his work wasn't credited and he got the credit... If anyone wishes to know more on this topic contact me! --------------------------------------------------- To obtain enlightenment in martial arts means the extinctino of everything which obscures "true knowledge", the "real life." At the same time it implies boundless expansion and, indeed, emphasis should fall not on the cultivation of the particular department which merges into the totality, but rather on the totality that enters and unites that particular department. -- The way to transcend karma lies in the proper use of the mind and the will. The oneness of all life is a truth that can be fully realized only when false notions of a seperate self, whose destiny can be considered apart from the whole, are forever annihilated. -- Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite -- there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all things. -- Turn into a doll made of wood: it has no ego, it thinks nothing, it is not grasping or sticky. Let the body and limbs work themselves out in accordance with the discipline they have undergone. -- If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. -- Nothingness cannot be defined; the sof-*test*-('") thing cannot be snapped. -- I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, "I am doing this," but rather, an inner realization that "this is happening through me," or "it is doing this for me." The consciousness of self is the grea-*test*-('") hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action. -- The localization of the mind means its freezing. When it ceases to flow freely as it is needed, it is no more the mind in its suchnes. -- The "Immovable" is the concentration of energy at a given focus, as at the axis of a wheel, instead of dispersal in scattered activities. -- The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments. There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience. -- To see a thing uncolored by one's own personal preferences and desires is to see it in its own pristine simplicity. -- Art reaches its grea-*test*-('") peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make. -- The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference adn heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand before you, never be for or against. THe struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease. -- Wisdom does not consist of trying to wrest the good from the evil but in learning to "ride" them as a cork adapts itself to the crests and troughs of the waves. -- Let yourself go with the diseas, be with it, keep company with it -- this is the way to be rid of it. -- An assertion is Zen only when it is itself an act and does not refer to anything that is asserted in it. --- In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort,. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, moves bowels, pass water and when your're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will at me, but the wise will understand. -- Establish nothing in regard to oneself. Pass quickly like the non-existent and be quiet as purity. Those who gain lose. Do not precede others, always follow them. -- Do not run away; let go. Do not seek, for it will come when least expected. -- Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing. -- There is no fixed teaching. All I can provide is an appropriate medicine for a particular ailment.