Li jun Fan

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In a message dated 8/22/04 6:19:30 AM,

Chinese Medicine writes:

 

<< He was, and this isn't the place so I'll bow out on

 

this point with the following - he founded an

 

incomplete art. A good seed, but unfortunately he

 

didn't hang around to let it grow. >>

 

Lon: Look, this is silly. The same as above can be said honestly for the

authors of the Nei Jing or Albert Einstein. Bruce was to the martial arts what

Hendrix was to music, what Babe Ruth was to baseball, and what Van Gogh was to

painting. The man had a profound depth and established the arts as a path to

freedom and spontaneity overthrowing 4000 years of classical conditioning. He's

singularly responsible for the spread of the arts throughout the western world

in the 70's until now. And, like Hendrix, he'll never be equalled.

He took the arts to a new level and, in the same moment, perfected the

essence of that level just as the others did. He also had a few prophetic things

to say including the following:

 

" The way to transcend karma lies in the proper use

of the mind and will. The oneness of all life is a truth

that can be fully realized only when false notions of a

separate self, whose destiny can be considered apart

from the whole, are forever annihilated. "

– Bruce Lee

 

To miss the essence of the accomplishment based on such intellectual

arguments betrays pride and is a travesty that seems the unique domain of the

conditioned human mind.