"The Way of the Intercepting Fist"

  Chinese Boxing - Jun Fan Gung Fu

By Bruce Lee

President of Jeet Kune Do

Jeet Kune Do is training and discipline towards the ultimate reality in combat.

The ultimate reality is the returning to one’s freedom, which is simple, direct and non-classical.

A good Jeet Kune Do man does not oppose force or give away completely. He is pliable as a spring; he is the complement and not the opposition to his opponent’s strength. He has no technique; he makes his opponent’s technique his techniques.

One should respond to circumstance without artificial and "wooden" pre-arrangement. Your action should be like the immediacy of a shadow adapting to a moving object. Your task is simply to complete the other half of the "oneness" spontaneously.

In Jeet Kune Do, one does not accumulate but eliminates. It is not daily increase, but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity. It is the half way cultivation that runs to ornamentation.

So it is not how much fixed knowledge one has accumulated, rather it is what one can apply alvely that accounts. "Being" is defiantly more valued than "doing".

The understanding of Jeet Kune Do is through personal feeling from movement to movement in the mirror of relationship and not through a process of isolation. To be is to be related. To isolate is death.

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, mimics a disease, when the mind is obsessed with it.

Learn the principle, abide by the principle and dissolve the principle. In short, to enter a mould without being caged in it, and obey the principle without being bound by them.

My followers in Jeet Kune Do listen to this, "all fixed set patterns, are incapable of adaptability or pliability". The truth is outside of all fixed patterns. Try and obtain a manageable shape of nicely lied paper package of water.

When one has reach naturally in this art, one well have the formless form. It is like the dissolving of a thawing ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When has no form, one can be all forms, when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.

In primary freedom one utilizes all ways and is bound by none, and likewise uses any technique or means which serves its end. Efficiency is anything that scores.

When you perceive the truth in Jeet Kune Do, you are at an undifferentiated center of a circle that has no circumference.

President of Jeet Kune Do