Monday, October 19, 2026

How Buddhism shaped Bruce Lee


What philosophy did Bruce Lee teach?

Intercept the fist to disarm the opponent
Jeet Kune Do (Chinese 截拳道, Jyutping, lit. "Stop Fist Way" or the "Way of the Intercepting Fist," abbreviated JKD) is Bruce Lee's hybrid martial art, which was conceived of, practiced, and taught by Lee.

It centers on the principle of counterattacking an opponent in order to impede that opponent's offense [12, 13].

As an eclectic martial art, it relies on a fighting style heavily influenced by Wing Chun, tai chi, taekwondo, boxing, fencing, and jujutsu [14, 15].


China's "Three Teachings"
Jeet Kune Do, which Lee intended to have practical life applications without the traditional routines and metaphysics of conventional martial arts, incorporates a set of principles to help practitioners make quick decisions and improve their mental and physical health [13, 16].

Lee based JKD on his experiences in unarmed fighting and self-defense, as well as on his eclectic, Zen Buddhist, Confucianist, and Taoist philosophies... More

In a conversation with the abbot of Shaolin Temple, the abbot asks what Lee thinks about when he faces an opponent. "There is no opponent," Lee answers, "because the word 'I' does not exist." That line echoes one of the Buddha's central teachings [anatta, the impersonal nature of all existence and phenomena]. The fixed idea of "me" that "we" [the aggregates] cling to so tightly falls apart the moment you look for it closely [systematically through satipatthana].

Bruce Lee: White men can't fight, Chuck Norris

Did Buddhism shape Bruce Lee’s martial arts philosophy?
Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee)
Buddha's Wisdom(Buddha's Wisdom) 🥋 Was Bruce Lee a secret American Buddhist [partial to China's Three blended spiritual Teachings]?

The man behind the saying, “Be water, my friend” reportedly said he had no religion at all, like most Americans. Yet ZEN, Taoism, [Confucianism] and the Buddha’s teachings (or Dharma) run through his life, his films, and his own blended philosophy he called Jeet Kune Do.

And one famous “Bruce Lee quote” actually traces back to Chinese Zen Buddhist Master Linji (Linji Yixuan), who passed away in the year 866.

Let's follow Bruce Lee from a rowing boat in Hong Kong Harbor, where he punched the sea, to the Oakland, California (next to Berkeley) fight that made him rebuild his art, the back injury that put him in bed for months.

Let's culminate with the Hollywood movie set for Enter the Dragon, where Bruce Lee refused to show up until his Buddhist-Taoist-Confucian philosophy scenes were put back in.

Along the way, we separate what the record shows from what the legend claims.

💡 DISCOVER
  • Why Lee punched the sea—and why “Be water” begins with a Taoist image
  • How a disputed 1964 fight made him question his fighting style.
  • The Buddha’s Parable of the Raft, and how Lee rebuilt his fighting style
  • Why Lee insisted on philosophy in Enter the Dragon and the Buddhist image in one of its most famous scenes
  • The Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path hidden in Bruce Lee's sickbed notebooks
Fat Happy Budai (Hotei) pointing at the moon
  • What, the hand, that hand that points?
    The Buddhist roots of “Don’t think, feel” and the finger pointing at the moon (Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra)
  • The Zen master whose words ended up under Bruce Lee’s name
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Female Bruce Lee? Kickboxer Kimura


One day, will robots be built in Mona's image?
(K-1 Worldwide) Mona Kimura vs. Marine Nicol | full fight | K-1 World Max 2026 Women's Flyweight.

Mona Kimura (Japanese 木村 萌那, Kimura Mona, born April 12, 2001) is a Japanese kickboxer and former amateur boxer who is currently signed to K-1. She represented Japan at 2022 IBA Women's World Boxing Championships... More

In the future, will killbots fight humans?
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Linda Lindas, Foo Fighters, Sublime (12/12)



The new faces of Riot Grrrl pop punk
This morning on The Klein Ally Show (morning zoo), alternative rock station KROQ announced the lineup for the annual Almost Acoustic Christmas at the Forum in Los Angeles. The headliners are girl punk impresarios The Linda Lindas, making strides to conquer the post-riot grrrl rockers Bikini Kill rock world with hardcore LA angst.
Finally, a lineup that doesn't completely suck.
Opening for the princesses of punk are what's left of the Germs, now playing as Dave Grohl's Foo Fighters featuring Pat Smear. Sublime, Weezer, and a self-proclaimed with named Julia Wolf are also co-headlining the bill, which features zero acoustic sets and has had nothing but full fuzz distorted electric guitars since the first show 35 years ago. Rounding out the night are Interpol, Joyce Manor, and almost monday.

Foo Fighters fantasize playing the Los Angeles Forum: "All My Life"

The station's official announcement runs like this: The 35th Annual KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas returns to the Kia Forum on Saturday, December 12th, 2026, featuring The Linda Lindas, the Foo Fighters, Weezer, Sublime, Interpol, Joyce Manor, Julia Wolf, and almost monday!

Tickets go on sale Friday, October 30th, 2026, with proceeds benefiting Para Los Niños [Spanish for "For the Children"] and the Al Wooten Jr Youth Center.
What is "punk rock"? It's a relative term
Who are The Pretty Lindas?

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'Comfortably Numb' Israel (Katie Halper)



If we fail in Middle East, we'll just overrun some other place

Let's design a flag of European white supremacy
(Katie Halper) Jewish anti-Zionist Katie Halper welcomes Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters to talk about "Israel's failed [settler colonialism Zionist] experiment" with Mona Miari (who has reimagined the Pink Floyd classic "Comfortably Numb") on Palestine and Jewish corruption through Israel's denialism but ultimately internationally-recognized  genocide in Gaza

Personal emotional horror of becoming "comfortably" numb due to The Wall

The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Long ago, Pink Floyd co-founder and principal songwriter Roger Waters was having a bad breakup with his American wife.

So he wrote two whole albums about it, The Wall (about the space between them) and The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking. He gave the band a choice about which to make into a movie and massive stage show. For some reason, they chose The Wall.

In July 1978, Waters presented the concepts and played demos of The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking as well as what was then titled Bricks in the Wall, which became The Wall, to his bandmates in Pink Floyd, asking them to decide which should be a group album and which a solo album for him [6, 7, 8].

After a long debate, they decided that they preferred the concept of Bricks in the Wall [7], even though their manager at the time, Steve O'Rourke, thought that Pros and Cons was a better-sounding concept [9] and guitarist David Gilmour deemed Pros and Cons stronger musically [7]. Waters declared:

"Well, the idea for the album came concurrently with the idea for The Wall – the basis of the idea. I wrote both pieces at roughly the same time. And, in fact, I made demo tapes of them both. And, in fact, [I] presented both demo tapes to the rest of the Floyd and said, 'Look, I'm going to do one of these as a solo project and we'll do one as a band album, and you can choose."

"So this was the one that was left over. Um...I mean, it's developed an awful lot since then, I think [8]. Bricks in the Wall, retitled The Wall, became the next Pink Floyd album in 1979. And Waters temporarily shelved Pros and Cons, but in early 1983, he undertook the shelved project himself as a solo project [10]. More


I love Jewish Israel better than USA
Pro-genocidal American Jewish Zionist multi-billionaire Robert H. K. Kraft [1] (age 85, born June 5, 1941) is a Jewish American businessman.

He told redhead Ed Sheeran that he better fire Macklemore, which cost Sheeran the other bands on the tour, including his own band.

Jewish Zionist Kraft is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Kraft Group, a diversified holding company with assets in paper and packaging, sports and entertainment, real estate development, and a private equity portfolio.

Yes, sir. Who else do you want me to fire?
Since 1994, Kraft has owned the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He also owns the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer (MLS), which he founded in 1996.

In 2017, he founded the Boston Uprising, an Overwatch League esports team that competed from 2017 until it disbanded in January 2024.

According to Forbes, Kraft had an estimated net worth of $11.1 billion as of July 2024 [2]. More

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Friday, October 16, 2026

Life changes. Accept it? No, fight!


(Buddhism Podcast) Life never stays the same: Learning to ACCEPT change (impermanence) | Buddhist wisdom

Go gently into that good night?
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

Poem by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

I was born, but I don't want to die, ever.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Source
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

Radical Acceptance
Buddhist author and therapist Dr. Tara Brach, Ph.D. has 4.6 out of 5 stars (with 5,127 reviews).

In our current times of global crises and spiking collective anxiety, Buddhist therapist Tara Brach’s transformative practice of "radical acceptance" offers a pathway to inner freedom and a more compassionate world.

This classic work now features an insightful new introduction, an exclusive bonus chapter, and additional guided meditations.

“Radical Acceptance offers us an invitation to embrace ourselves with all our pain, fear, and anxieties, and to step lightly yet firmly on the path of understanding and compassion.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh

Why do things have to change and be unstable?
“Believing that something is wrong with us is a deep and tenacious suffering,” says Tara Brach at the start of this illuminating book. This suffering emerges in crippling self-judgments and conflicts in our relationships, in addictions and perfectionism, in loneliness and overwork—all the forces that keep our lives constricted and unfulfilled.

Radical Acceptance offers a path to freedom, including the day-to-day practical guidance developed over Dr. Brach’s 40 years of work with therapy clients and Buddhist students.

Man, the Buddha was right! Loss sucks: dukkha.
A longtime friend of Buddhist clinical psychologist Dr. Jack Kornfield, Dr. Brach's writes with great warmth and clarity. She brings her teachings alive through personal stories and case histories, fresh interpretations of Buddhist tales, and guided meditations.

Step by step, Dr. Brach shows readers how to stop being at war with themselves and how to begin to live fully every precious moment of our lives. More


No, to Hades with change! Fight till death!

Be a man. Fight change. Fight it till death!
Metal and men clash once more to the end/ Warriors above, with the power to kill, descend/ Militia of blood, troops of hate march to die/ Soldiers of Hell, veterans of death arise/ [CHORUS] Prepare for attack/ Your body will burn/ Endless war/ There's no return/ Prepare for attack/ Death will arrive/ Your orders are clear/ No way to hide/ Fight till death!// Senseless death of all mankind overtakes/ Armored assassins destroy, at will, your escape/ Children of sorrow are trampled into the grave/ There is no future, no f*cking world to be saved/ [CHORUS]// To reign in Hell [guitar solo: Jeff Hanneman]// Gods of steel unleash their destruction on man/ Reign of death, what is the final command?/ Scepters of hate are dropped upon this Earth/ Clouds of terror destroy all hope of rebirth/ [CHORUS]/ Death will arrive/ Your orders are clear/ No way to hide/ Fight till death...
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No Kings🚨Bend; Temple; Fort Hood; Israel🔫

(DemocracyNow.org) Top US/World Headlines: Oct. 16, 2026


"NO KINGS" - What's next after October 17th mass action?
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No Kings in America since 1776
 Election defense mass call to action following the Oct. 17th No Kings: Vote Early: mass day of activations, gather online with the No Kings movement on Wednesday Oct. 21 at 8:00 pm (ET)/5:00 pm (PT) to talk about the final push for voter turnout. What happens post-election? We're preparing for election enforcement, so we can start to plan now to be ready to protect the results of the election. More: nokings.org. (Has anyone reached out to Greg Palast at gregpalast.com?

Amy Goodman will appear in-person at a screening of the new documentary about her life, her journalism, and the news program she co-founded 30 years ago, Democracy Now! She will participate in a Q&A following the film, joined by one of the film’s Oscar-nominated directors, Tia Lessin. Hosted by the USC School of Cinematic Arts’ Outside the Box [Office] series.

BLOODY HEADLINES
Student gunman kills 7 people in home, school shooting outside Bangkok, Thailand
Illegal Jewish 'settlers' attack Jews
Jewish American victim: photojournalist Heidi Levine
We have many ways to spy. Right, Bari Weiss?
Zionist cybercrimes: Israeli firm used targeted ads to infect AJ devices with zero-click spyware: Al Jazeera reports that an Israeli advertising tech firm infect devices with malicious spyware designed to collect a wide range of sensitive data on journalists at the network. AJ condemned the cyberattack as an “assault on press freedom.” These findings were corroborated by the Citizen Lab, which found in an investigation that the Israeli ad company Discover-Tech used personalized advertisements to deliver spyware from Candiru, an Israeli spyware company, that was blacklisted by the U.S. government in 2021 over its malicious software. It’s the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. See Israeli spying in the United States

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