Many years have passed. My one friend asked me to help him on a project to write about one of greatest personalities/hero from the world of Martial Arts to be presented on his birth anniversary 27th November. That time I only knew that Bruce Lee was a legendary film start of Action Movies. There was no internet like today, I visited Sunday’s Darya Ganj Book Market and Connaught place to get some books where I could find some info about Bruce Lee also known as Little Dragon. Fortunately, I got Tao of Jeet Kune Do with few martial arts and sports magazines including few editions of Black Belt. Read about his style, his journey as an actor and fighter, his philosophy.
He died at just the age of 33. But what he did and gave to world in his short life, can’t be an act of normal or ordinary human. If He would be an Indian, People worshipped him as an incarnation of some divine power.
It took about a week and almost 60 pages article. When I handed over to that friend, He was amazed. As he was expecting 3 or 4 pages. And my reply was, “I wrote in brief and included only few important events from his life, otherwise even 500 pages won’t be enough to describe Bruce Lee.” But if today, I have to re-write about his life. I can explain in one word – “Limitless”.
These are only limits which stop humans to live its best life, no matter it is personal, social, religious, spiritual, or professional part of life.
I met many people in life living in the cage of self-imposed limits. That will marry only with a boy/girl from a particular area/caste/business/job/profession (some with even size of nose/eyebrows/hair style/Food Habits etc) and could not find a good match with these limits. Or will work only in a particular city/state/industry/role and when they find such job, sooner or later gets frustrated as can’t get job satisfaction.
This is only about mind set.
That’s why Bruce Lee invented JKD while there were already so many forms of Martial Arts existed. He wanted to break all limits, e.g. When a Karate student practice Kata, he follow a particular pattern assuming (attacking) move of his opponent and practice how he would defend. But in real life situations, especially street fights no assumption works, only very experienced Masters could handle such situations, So he kept JKD free from all such Rules/Boundaries.
Remembering the great Master on his birth anniversary. May we follow his path of Limitlessness. Because Limits are only our Believes. We can’t do anything only if We believe, We can’t do, otherwise Nothing is Impossible. Thanks.
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