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This is Bruce Lee’s Tao of Jeet Kune Do.Amazon info:http://www.amazon.com/Tao-Jeet-Kune-Bruce-Lee/dp/0897500482/…4.5/5 158 customer reviews.I upload this to martial arts category, because originally this was writtenas a martial arts book. In essence, though this book is about his philosophy.First 20 pages are full of golden philosophical maxims that are martial arts”inner-game”. Interesting thing is that it also very well applies to life andpick-up.(Some of the ideas are pretty much accepted now – being aware,in the moment, natural fighting(natural game) and so on. He studied zen,buddhism principles and so on.Few of the pearls that i’ve found (try to interpret them from a pick-up point).Quotes about martial arts (pick-up arts) style, routines, patterns:—If you want to understand the truth in martial arts, to see any opponent clearly, you must throw away the notion of styles or schools, prejudices, likes and dislikes, and so forth. Then, your mind will cease all conflict and come to rest. In this silence, you will see totally and freshly.—If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow – you are not understanding yourself.—How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it.A really great book. 5/5