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Gentleness and firmness are not isolated but are complementary as well as contrastive, and in their interfusion they make up the “oneness.” Always remember this fact, and if you do not favor so much on the side of either firmness or gentleness, you can then truly appreciate the “good/bad” of them. Gentleness versus firmness is not the situation, but gentleness/firmness as a oneness is the true Way.

Any practitioner of martial art should consider both the gentleness and the firmness of equal importance, and not as being independent of one another. The rejection of either gentleness or firmness will lead to separation, and separation runs to extremes.

Source: Bruce Lee’s handwritten notes entitled “The Tao of ‘Jeet Kune,’The Way of the ‘Stopping Fist,’ Chinese Boxing from the Jun Fan Gung Fu Institute,” circa 1967, Bruce Lee Papers.

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MY VIEW ON GUNG FU

Some instructors of martial art favor forms, the more complex and fancy the better. Some, on the other hand, are obsessed with super-mental power (like Captain Marvel or Superman). Still some favor deformed hands and legs and devote their time to fighting bricks, stones, boards, and so forth, and so on.