There is no standard in total combat, and expression must be free. That liberating truth is a reality only insofar as it is experienced and lived in its suchness by the individual himself, and this truth is far beyond any styles or disciplines. “Remember, too, that JKD is just a term used, a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not carried on ones back”.

These few paragraphs at best are merely “a finger pointing to the moon. Please do not take the finger to be the moon or fix your intense gaze on the finger and thus miss all the beautiful sight of heaven. After all, the usefulness of the finger is in the pointing away from itself to the light that illuminates finger and all”, Bruce Lee, Artist of Life.

Bruce Lee later quoted this in Enter The Dragon (1974) as “Don’t think; feel. It’s like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don’t concentrate on the finger, or you will miss all the heavenly glory”.

“Artistic skill, therefore, does not mean artistic perfection. It remains rather a continuing medium or reflection of some step in psychic development, the perfection of which is not to be found in shape and form, but must radiate from the human soul. The artistic activity does not consist in art itself as such; it penetrates into a deeper world in which all art forms of things inwardly experienced flow together, and in which the harmony of soul and cosmos in the nothing has its outcome in reality”.

Bruce Lee, Artist of Life.

“Tactics is for the intelligent who’s a step ahead of his opponent.
He uses his brains in a fight while another can’t see the light.
He varies his tactic with each foe, with punches and kicks thrown high and low.
He studies his opponent with care and fights with judgment and dare.
Tactic alone can’t insure success attitude is part of the process.
A fighter with great confidence plans his encounter with good sense.”
Artist of Life, Bruce Lee

Research your own experiences for the truth
Absorb what is useful
Reject what is useless
Add specifically what is your own
- Bruce Lee
The thing about Bruce Lee was that his teaching could be applied to every day life. See how the above can be used in all walks of life.