Flatlander
Grandmaster
This is an excerpt from Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do edited by John Little, c. 1997.When a man is thinking he stands off from what he is trying to understand. Feeling exists here and now when not interrupted and dissected by ideas or concepts. The moment we stop analyzing and let go, we can start really seeing, feeling - as one whole. There is no actor or one being acted upon but the action itself. I stayed with my feeling then - and I felt it to the full without naming it that. As last the I and the feeling merged to become one. The I no longer feels the self to be separated from the you and the whole idea of taking advantage or getting something out of something becomes absurd. To me, I have no other self (not to mention thought) than the oneness of things of which I was aware at that moment.
Here, Bruce is pointing to the state of mind that one must seek in order to truly reflect the movement of their opponent, and to circumvent the analysis process, going directly from awareness to action.
What are your thoughts? How can one achieve this state?