You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying.” Once you accept this you are free to flow and to harmonize. To accept defeat, to learn to die, is to be liberated from it.
“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to learn the way to lose. You try and hold onto the sameness because it offers security, but it prevents real connection to others, yourself, and the world around you and hinders your personal growth. “People try to hold on to sameness, this holding on prevents growth.” To raise our potential is to live and review every second refreshed.” “We live in clichés in patterned behavior, we play the same role over and over again. Wipe away and dissolve all its experience and be born afresh.” “Drop and dissolve inner blockage, a conditioned mind is never a free mind. “To understand and live now, there must be a dying to everything of yesterday, die continually to every newly gained experience be in a state in choiceless awareness of what is.”ĭying in this instance is more about living in the moment and being able to continue to be the student and learn. He even had an art piece tombstone created which stated, “In memory of a once fluid man crammed and distorted by the classical mess.” This was a physical reminder to let go of anything that keeps you rigid or limits growth. So when tomorrow comes, you must free your ambitious mind, and learn the art of dying.”īruce was constantly practicing this idea of dying because to him it meant returning to beginners mind and neutrality.
“Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose, to accept defeat, to learn to die is to be liberated from it. When Bruce Lee spoke about the Art of Dying, he did not mean dying in the literal sense, but as a metaphor for letting go of the past and things that limit you, so you can be a fluid human in the present moment.
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