cardguy said:
Yes, like G suggested, he bridged his ancient Chinese philosophy with a more modern, western, practical application, in a variety of areas.
-The way we view life.
-The way we solve problems.
-The way we model nature.
-The philosophy of sport.
-The nature of self-expression
Basically, he applied centuries old Asian wisdom to modern day life and expressed it through film, fitness training, and martial arts. (and other stuff like diet, etc.)
I like to say, sometimes, the best philosophers are not dead Greek guys but people that walk among us every day.
thegmanifesto said:
Bruce was dating blonds in the 1960's
He smashed down doors for Asian men. Kind of like what Jeremy Lin did in basketball last year. He was decades ahead of his time.
Asian men are actually quite popular in South America.
Peru and Brazil have many Latin-Asian mixtures. These are some of my favorite women on the planet. The Japanese-Brazilian girls are my #1!
*****
Some of my favorite Bruce Quotes:
Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.
When my acute self-consciousness grew to what the psychologists refer to as the “double-bind” type, my instructor would again approach me and say, “Loong, preserve yourself by following the natural bends of things and don’t interfere. Remember never to assert yourself against nature; never be in frontal opposition to any problems, but control it by swinging with it.
When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.
Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.
Liberate yourself from concepts and see the truth with your own eyes. — It exists HERE and NOW; it requires only one thing to see it: openness, freedom — the freedom to be open and not tethered by any ideas, concepts, etc. ... When our mind is tranquil, there will be an occasional pause to its feverish activities, there will be a let-go, and it is only then in the interval between two thoughts that a flash of UNDERSTANDING — understanding, which is not thought — can take place.
I could on all day.
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