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The
City on the Edge of Forever
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I've always liked Bruce Lee. His movies, his teachings, his
philosophy, but I've never been fanatical about it, just really dug on
the guy, ya know? The other day I Netflixed Enter The
Dragon... I hadn't watched it since it was released in the
theaters oh so many years ago now... Like most DVDs these
days
there was a Special Features section, and in that section was an
interview with Bruce. I'd always been aware of this concept
but
never actually read it in print or heard the quote in
context...
Seeing and hearing him say these words choked me up big time and I had
a nice little cry on the sofa... My four year old daughter
joined
me and told me everything was Okay... She is, of course,
correct.
"To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself.
Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to
put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and
feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things.
Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to
experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express
myself honestly, now that, my friend, is very hard to do." - Bruce Lee-
So now the time has come, to do the very hard thing. I've
been
avoiding it for some years now...
There was a time, ten years ago, when it was a very Easy thing, a very
Natural thing... but that was then and there, and this is
here
and now...
The past is forgotten.
The future is hoped for.
And NOW is the moment in which we are.
And it IS hard. I can tell you the nutshell, the tip of the
iceberg, that tiny summation that you have the patience
for...
but that's not the meat, that massive block of hull wrenching ice, the
totality of the Whole Tamale....
As the days tick by and my daughter grows older I've come to realize
that there are more days behind me than before me, which is fine, but
something isn't quite right... with me, with the universe...
something... somewhere...
That too is fine, but I Have to do something...
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it
done.” -Bruce Lee-
So I'm not thinking... no, really *laughs* What? You think
this
is Outlined? Planned? Edited? *rolls
eyes* Honestly,
I can write Much better than this... perhaps some day some of the more
stellar stuff will actually shine through, who knows? Not
today
though... Today I just do.
“If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame
of mind is ever going to help you” -Bruce Lee-
*Sploooosh*
twj
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