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The highest art is no art. The best form is no form.

In martial art cultivation there must be a sense of freedom. A conditioned mind is never a free mind.

Conditioning is to limit a person within the framework of a particular system.

To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist, but to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius.

I’m telling you it’s difficult to have a rehearsed routine to fit in with broken rhythm!

Rehearsed routines lack the flexibility to adapt.

Jeet kune do is not a method of concentration or meditation. It is being. It is an experience, a Way that is not a Way.

Pure being

Jeet kune do is the awareness of pure being (beyond subject and object) , an immediate grasp of being in its “thusness” and “suchness” (not particularized reality).

Mind is an ultimate reality which is aware of itself and is not the seat of our empirical consciousness—by “being” mind instead of “having” mind (“no mind and no-mind”; “no form and no-form”).