Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

Too often so-called insights into the nature of our illness or a reconstruction of childhood trauma may simply be a crutch that confirm a belief in our intrinsic infirmity rather than give rise to the strength to trust our own resiliency in the face of our life as it is. Zen offers us a counterbalancing insight into our essential wholeness, a whole

We can be good swimmers, but can we be a river and experience the fears and hopes of a river?

Eventually, this entire practice takes place instantaneously. You notice closure, and open. Openness abides—for a while. Again, you can notice closure, allow yourself to be closure, then, feeling as closure, heat it up and open.

When we realize that what we think and say isn’t ultimately the truth, then what we think and say can always adapt itself to the moment. This, in fact, is what “wise action” is: Activity, speech, and relationship that arises from wisdom and is in harmony with the moment. It is action that changes and molds itself to each and every moment.