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Source: Bruce Lee’s handwritten essay entitled “A Moment of Understanding,” from one of his courses at the University of Washington. Bruce Lee Papers. Subsequently published on pages 134–36 in Volume 2 of The Bruce Lee Library Series entitled The Tao of Gung Fu:A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art, written by Bruce Lee, edited by John Little, published by the Charles E.Tuttle Publishing Company, Boston, (c) 1997 Linda Lee Cadwell.

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REFLECTIONS ON GUNG FU

Gung fu is so extraordinary because it is nothing at all special. It is simply the direct expression of one’s feeling with the minimum of lines and energy. Every movement is being so of itself without the artificiality with which we tend to complicate them. The closer to the true Way of gung fu, the less wastage of expression there is.

Gung fu is to be looked at without fancy suits and matching ties, and it remains a secret while we anxiously look for sophistication and deadly techniques. If there are really any secrets at all, they must have been missed by the “seeing” and “striving” of its practitioners (after all, how many ways are there to come in on an opponent without deviating too much from the natural course?). Gung fu values the wonder of the ordinary, and the idea is not daily increase but daily decrease.