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Lee once made the comment, “All knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge,” and his writings reflect the depth of his search within. When he severely injured his lower back in 1970, the medical community made the conclusion that he would never be able to perform martial arts again. Lee, however, realized that with the correct application of his will he would not only be able to rehabilitate himself, but actually surpass his previous level of martial ability. And he did just that. While he may have been bedridden for six months, Lee, unable to train his body, began to train, his mind as never before, reading voraciously and taking copious notes that would fill seven separate volumes on the art and science of combat. Many of those notes were gathered up and published collectively in the book The Tao of Jeet Kune Do (Ohara Publications, 1975) under the auspices of his widow, Linda Lee Cadwell. However, there was much material that was left out of that book. So much so, in fact, that it has filled the bulk of this book (along with his reading annotations, additional notes on combat, and excerpted interview materials). To obtain a more complete picture of the thought process and depth of Bruce Lee and the martial art and philosophy he created, I would strongly recommend that you read The Tao of Jeet Kune Do in addition to any other books that feature authentic writings of Bruce. Lee. Don’t bifurcate into an “either/or” situation; take in the whole picture. “But who was to be the ultimate arbiter of which information was more important?” some of you will ask. Holding to Bruce’s philosophy of there not. being any effective segments of a totality, it is my belief that while this book holds an important segment of the totality that was Bruce Lee, you can only obtain the full picture by doing your homework and broadening your research.