Bruce Lee shows that muscles and strength isn’t everything in the art of Gung Fu. It tells you that Gung Fu is like yin and yang. Yin is gentleness and yang is firmness; both in a fight, complements each other. Bruce Lee talks about how Gung Fu isn’t about being taught how to fight, but how to use self-defense. Beside from the Gung Fu, Bruce Lee wrote poems. Bruce Lee liked to write and express feeling so deeply, just like in martial arts.
Bruce Lee also made a new idea/way, Jeet Kune Do (JKD). JKD is an idea/way that makes fighters or followers of martial art to be free from using different styles. Bruce Lee believe that “having no form” is ignorance and having “no-form” is transcendence which mean exceeding or to surpassing in degree or excellence. Bruce Lee believes in Self-help. He found himself help by daily discovers, always doing his best and that there is no end or limits in life. Bruce Lee talked about when he was a child, the word quality meant a lot for him. He used the work quality in his daily life. He called his daily of life, “The process of becoming,’ Bruce.” (Lee 260)“In fact, the mind is trained to direct the movement of the body. The mind wills and the body behaves.” (Little 47)
This quote, to me, is really strong. The reason why is because if you really think about it, your mind is the control room to direct the movement of ones body. I have a connection, when I got into a fight a while back, I thought about hitting the kid. I thought about it so much that I made up my mind and my mind told my body to act and so it did. Bruce Lee was smart, he thought about how fast he would punch and what his mind told his body, his body followed and his attack on point.
