“Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.”

– Bruce Lee, from Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Perhaps the biggest work we do together will be around exploring and developing techniques that foster and nurture a flexible, relaxed, and alert mindset with which to approach our work and our interactions with others.

Each of the tabs in the Mindset section is a piece in this puzzle, which we will build together.  Explore!

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(Student quick-draw responses to the prompt,
“Draw you being taught be either Bruce Lee or Wu Mei.”)

The Diver’s Clothes Lying Empty

You are sitting here with us,
but you are also out walking in a field at dawn.

You are yourself the animal we hunt
when you come with us on the hunt.

You are in your body
like a plant is solid in the ground,
yet you are wind.

You are the diver’s clothes
lying empty on the beach.
You are the fish.

In the ocean are many bright strands
and many dark strands like veins that are seen
when a wing is lifted up.

Your hidden self is blood in those,
those veins that are lute strings
that make ocean music,
not the sad edge of surf
but the sound of no shore.

Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks

Into a soul absolutely free
From thoughts and emotions,
Even the tiger finds no room
To insert its fierce claws.

One and the same breeze passes
Over the pines on the mountain
And the oak trees in the valley;
And why do they give different notes?

No thinking, no reflecting,
Perfect emptiness;
Yet therein something moves,
Following its own course.

The eye sees it,
But no hands can take hold of it —
The moon in the stream.

Clouds and mists,
They are midair transformations;
Above them eternally shine the sun and the moon.

Victory is for the one,
Even before the combat,
Who has no thought of himself,
Abiding the no-mind-ness of Great Origin.

A Taoist Priest, as quoted in Tao of Jeet Kun Do, by Bruce Lee 

Listen to Become Ocean, by John Luther Adams