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The problem of styles

I do not teach because I do not believe in styles anymore. I mean I do not believe that there is such a thing as, like, “the Chinese way” of fighting or the “Japanese way” of fighting . . . or whatever “way” of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. But, basically, we only have two hands and two feet. So styles tend to separate man—because they have their own doctrines and the doctrine became the Gospel Truth that you cannot change! But, if you do not have styles, if you just say “here I am as a human being. How can I express myself totally and completely?”—now that way, you won’t create a style because style is a crystallization. That way (the opposite of style) is a process of continuing growth.

I mean “styles” kind of restrict you to one way of doing it and therefore limit your human capacity, you know?

A path and a gateway have no meaning or no use once the objective is in sight.

Let me give you a good example of why I don’t like cults or sects in the martial arts. Let’s take stances. Okay, now look at the way a crane just stands there on one leg. So suppose you have something like that invented by a cripple? In five thousand years everybody is a cripple.