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Not only does everything have a complementary part, but even within that “one” special thing it, too, should have the characteristic of the other component part. In other words, softness is to be concealed in firmness and firmness in softness.

All these examples show us that everything has a complementary part to form a whole. Now we can look at the “oneness” of firmness and softness, without favoring either side too much so that we can truly appreciate the “good/bad” of them. Not only does everything have a complementary part, but even within that “one” special thing it, too, should have the characteristic of the other component part. In other words, softness is to be concealed in firmness and firmness in softness. In either case, be it softness or firmness, it should never stand alone; for standing alone will lead to extremes and going to extremes is never best.

Source: Bruce Lee’s handwritten paper entitled “The Union of Firmness and Softness.” Bruce Lee Papers.

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TAOISM

Taoism is a philosophy of the essential unity of the universe (monism), or reversion, polarization (Yin and Yang), and eternal cycles, of the leveling of all differences, the relativity of all standards, and the return of all to the primeval one, the divine intelligence, the source of all things.