Tao Of Jeet Kune Do ( 1975 )

  • Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.
  • p.12
  • 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.
  • Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.
  • p.25
  • 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.
  • This statement probably derives from a famous one of Jiddu Krishnamurti: "Truth is a pathless land."
Source : Wikipedia.