How Buddhism shaped Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee beats up all the students of the Japanese martial arts school at once | Fist of Fury

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].

Dead far too young

Asian stardom threatened USA?

How did Bruce Lee die? Only one doctor knows for sure: Dr. Joel Wallach (youngevity.net), who says it was severe nutritional deficiencies due to fad dieting.

One thing that can be said for sure is that Lee was not following the age-old dietary habits of Buddhist Shaolin Temple martial artists, Zen practitioners in Japan, or even well-established Asian customs, any of which could have kept him healthy and still with us.

There's something to be said about a "curse" and foul play since his son, Brandon Lee, also died under mysterious Hollywood circumstances.

Hah, Bruce Lee, you're not so tough!

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

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Did Buddhism shape Bruce Lee’s martial arts philosophy?

Enter the Dragon (Bruce Lee)

(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

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  What, the hand, the hand that points?

  Buddhist roots of “Don’t think, feel” and the finger pointing at the moon (as in the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra)
• Zen master whose words ended up under Lee’s name

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• Matt, Buddha's Wisdom, AI. Oct. 17, 2026; Dhr. Seven, Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

Surf's up in Cali: king tides. (Secret to 🧘‍♂️)

COASTAL FLOODING - SECRET TO FLOW STATE MEDITATING

I'm not afraid of no high tides. Whatever!

(Watchers.news) Warnings remain in effect for the San Diego and Orange County coasts through October 29, 2026, as high tides and elevated water levels threaten roads and low-lying properties.

The National Weather Service (NWS) also has Coastal Flood Advisories for other shoreline areas, including Los Angeles-area beaches, San Francisco Bay, San Luis Obispo, Monterey Bay, and Humboldt Bay.

Coastal flood alerts remain in effect across the Los Angeles, Oxnard, San Diego, and San Francisco forecast areas through Thursday, October 29th.

Water looks pretty skanky and poopy today, Bro

The National Weather Service (NWS) has a Coastal Flood Warning for San Diego and Orange counties and Coastal Flood Advisories farther north, with high tides and elevated coastal water levels forecast to flood vulnerable low-lying locations and contribute to shoreline erosion, loss of precious sand, and road closures. More

• Urgent flood alert issued across California as monster king tides sweep in | New York Post

Is surfing the most Buddhist sport?

Man, I'm just ONE with waves

What is a "Buddhist sport"? To be sure such activities exist. One thinks of yoga postures and stretch-series, skateboarding, public speaking, performing, standing on a stage free-rapping trying not to shake or let anyone see you sweat, getting into THE ZONE. That zone is what modern psychology calls the flow state and what the rest of the world has long called "Zen."

Zen has a literal meaning -- jhana, dhyana, chan... But most Zen practitioners do not know much about it, being nowhere close to satori or kensho, just sitting in their shikantaza, imagining they're making progress to no goal.

Oh, I thought "Zen" was blissfully zonking out.

"Zen" used to mean "meditation" but in the sense of meditative absorption rather than contemplative practices in the fourfold setting up of mindfulness (sati).

Any sporting activity that allows one to be mindful -- that is, not discursively thinking like that oppressive inner voice slave-driving us most of the time, but rather inner silence, focus, attention excluding all distractions -- could be "Buddhafied," made more natural (less consciously effortful, less of a struggle, more of an allowing, more of an accepting of what is).

What is the secret? Please tell us the secret!!

How can you tolerate all that heat, sir?

What is the secret? The secret is obvious, so obvious most of us would rather have a "better" secret for instant enlightenment and no effort at all.

Those secrets follow and unfold from the first and most obvious secret: practice. In the mystical East, India and the Indosphere in particular, this sort of "practice" is called sādhanā by adepts.

It is regular rather than irregular, persistent rather than on-and-off, daily rather than just on the weekends, continuous rather than broken... Imagine getting into a very warm tub. How is that done, assuming there's a "best" or "right" way?

• How does the old joke go? Musician lost in Manhattan asks a taxi driver, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" The driver smiles and snaps, "ANSWER"?

The best way to get in untested waters?

One jumps in, scalding the skin, splashing most of the tub water onto the floor, screaming, flailing, biting down on the tongue, squinting, scrunching, holding one's junk? No, obviously not. That's no way to do it. What are we, children?

Be as an actual child, behaving naturally, with sensitivity, responding to the immediate environment, testing, starting slowly and gently.

Settle down, Pretty Woman. Hold still. Relax.

One slides in smoothly, hardly disturbing the surface, easing into it until it's tolerable and relaxing, letting go, unclutching, untightening, undoing -- allowing. The water washes over one, soothing and softening the muscles, with a smile on the mug. This is the way to the first kind of Buddhist meditation called serenity (samatha).

Oh, I get it, just relax and allow the soothing

It's natural, so if we "allow" it rather than "trying" to do it, "struggling," "muscling," "over-efforting," "pushing," "shoving," or tormenting ourselves, poof there it is suddenly, like magic. Now, how to hold it? Hold it as a gentle child would hold a butterfly that doesn't fly away, most delicately, gingerly, tenderly, not staring at it or wanting anything from it, just radically accepting it and ALLOWING.

100 million Natives in USA before USA

(Discover America) Every Indigenous Native American tribe explained in 22 minutes

"All the Real Indians Died Off": And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans (Myths Made in America)

All the Real Indians

Authors Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker has 4.7 out of 5 stars (with 393 reviews). It is part of Myths Made in America (a nine book series). It unpacks the 21 of the most common myths and misconceptions about Native Americans in the USA.

In this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations.

Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as:

We used to dance in peace

• “Columbus discovered America”
• “Thanksgiving proves the Indians welcomed Pilgrims”
• “Indians were savage and warlike”
• “Europeans brought civilization to backward Indians”
• “The United States did not have a policy of genocide”
• “Sports mascots honor Native Americans”
• “Most Indians are on government welfare”
• “Indian casinos make them all rich”
• “Indians are naturally predisposed to alcohol”

Indigenous Peoples' History of US

Each chapter deftly shows how these myths are rooted in the fears and prejudices of European migrants, using euphemisms like “pilgrims” and “settlers” to remove the sting of violent invaders and polluting occupiers.

The larger political agendas of these “settlers” aimed at acquiring (defrauding, misappropriating, stealing) Indigenous lands, tying American history to narratives of intentional erasure and disappearance.

Accessibly written and revelatory, All the Real Indians Died Off challenges readers to rethink what they have been taught about Native Americans and white revisionist history. More

• Discover America (video); Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Dina Gilio-Whittaker; Xochitl, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Time travel is REAL, evidence shows

Why did Buddhist and Hindu ancients top this pyramid with "bells"? (Borobudur, Indonesia)

(Be Amazed) The most convincing time traveler stories (Die Glocke, time travel "Bell")

Buddhist monks and Ten Precept Nuns circumambulate Buddhist pyramid at Borobudur

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THE TIME TRAVEL BELL

Space/heavenly "light being" (akasha-deva)

(German Die Glocke) was a purported top-secret scientific technological device, alien technology [likely from Aldebaran through Maria Orsic and the Vril Society], potential super weapon, or Wunderwaffe developed in the 1940s by Nazis in Hitler's Germany.

Rumors of this amazing technological device have persisted for decades after WW II even being used as a plot trope in the fiction novel Lightning by hack Dean Koontz (1988), in the fiction TV series 12 Monkeys (Season 4), and the multimedia franchise Assassin's Creed.

• (BE AMAZED) Photos that can prove time travel is real

Austrian Oracle Maria Orsic channeled Sumerian technology

•  Maria Orsic and the Vril Society (Battleground Earth)

Die Glocke ("The Bell")

"The Bell" was first fully described by Polish journalist and author Igor Witkowski in The Truth About the Wunderwaffe (or Prawda o Wunderwaffe, 2000) and later popularized by military journalist and author Nick Cook, who associated it with forbidden Nazi occultism [Vril Society], anti-gravity technology, and free energy research.

Mainstream reviewers, unable to understand it or induced to cast doubt and conceal the truth, have criticized claims about Die Glocke as being pseudoscientific. How could mainstream science explain it? It can't; therefore, it has to be unreal...until science catches up with it, at which time it will have always been real.

What is inside of these "Bell" shaped miniature stupas or reliquaries? Meditating figures.

As schematic shows "the bells" sit atop this 3-D mandala of sacred geometry: map of cosmos

"The Bells" of the world's largest excavated Buddhist temple complex: Borobudur 2008

Big Brother is watching: 1984 Norma Crane, Eddie Albert, Studio One (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

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So far, mention of Die Glocke in any context, even black budget scientific literature, will be labeled "recycled rumors" or "hoax" so as to not have to think about it.

Orwell warned. World doubted.

Die Glocke and other Nazi "miracle weapons" have been dramatized in films, TV shows, video games, and novels, and if a real thing is inserted into fiction, it becomes fiction by association until our government and the gatekeepers in the university system give us permission to believe.

Otherwise, anyone who tries to discuss time travel technology must be called a "conspiracy theorist" and be reported to local authorities for observation. The Thought Police will not stand for freethinkers or whistleblowers revealing technology before its appointed time. Now return to your appointed sectors and hail the Great Leader. That is all. More

• Die Glocke | Military Wiki | Fandom
• Wunderwaffe | Military Wiki | Fandom
• Be Amazed; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wiki edit

LA's new park for Black slave Biddy Mason

(MIDNIGHT TALES) Born enslaved, died a millionaire: The untold story of Biddy Mason

What this country needs is a free Black woman like Biddy or Harriet Tubman on the face of cash

Pershing Square, DTLA, California

Pershing Square is perishing. Many Angelenos (people living in the megalopolis of the "City of Angels" aka Spanish Ciudad de Los Angeles) have visited downtown’s Bradbury Building, but not everyone knows about the nearby Biddy Mason Memorial Park located on the south side of the building, between Broadway and Spring Streets.

I'm smiling because I'm finally free!

Bridget “Biddy” Mason was born into slavery in 1818. Not much is known of her early life, but by the time she was a young adult she was enslaved in the household of Robert Smith.

• Bye-bye Pershing Square (LA) 
• L.A. renames Pershing Square after Biddy Mason, founder of L.A.'s First AME Church (LAT)
• First A.M.E. (African Methodist Episcopal) Church of LA
• The Metro board voted unanimously Thursday to honor Biddy Mason | LAist

LA's own Black race massacre?

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BLACK neighborhood in LA before it was destroyed and forgotten

Whites need to stick together and keep LA for us

In 1847, she traveled, mostly on foot, from Mississippi to Utah with the Smith household. The household lived in Salt Lake City for two years, then resettled in San Bernardino, California in 1851.

• Tulsa [white] race massacre [of rich Blacks in Oklahoma]
• USA's "Black Wall Street": Greenwood District, Tulsa

California was admitted to the Union in 1850 as a free, non-slave state, which meant [human trafficker] Smith was holding Biddy Mason illegally. Mason fought for her freedom in court, with the trial ruling confirming her freedom in 1856.

Money is a good servant but a cruel master

As a free woman, Biddy Mason settled in Los Angeles with her children and found work as a nurse and midwife.

In 1866, she purchased a nearly one-acre site between present-day Broadway (then Fort Street) and Spring Street, between 3rd and 4th Streets.

The Black female owner of Los Angeles

On this, the present location of the park, she built her homestead. Throughout the years, this pioneering Black woman purchased more property. And as the value of her [real estate] holdings escalated, she eventually became a relatively wealthy woman and a tireless philanthropist.

• List of parks in Los Angeles
• Alvarado Terrace Historic District
• VIDEO: How Biddy Mason changed LA forever: Biddy Mason’s story is one of the most powerful hidden chapters in American history. Born into slavery, she fought for her freedom and went on to become one of the first Black women to own land in Los Angeles. Through real estate, business, philanthropy, and founding First A.M.E. Church, she helped shape the city we know today. How did she build her legacy, inspire generations, and truly become "the woman who owned LA"?

Today's Pershing Square in DTLA

(Unique Coloring) From slave to richest Los Angeles resident | Biddy Mason | Black History

The lotus pond of Alvarado Park, LA

This mini-park was designed by landscape architects Katherine Spitz and Pamela Burton. The artwork Biddy Mason Time and Place is an 80-foot-long poured concrete wall by artist Sheila Levrant de Bretteville.

The wall is a timeline of Biddy Mason’s life, illustrated by impressions of objects such as agave leaves, wagon wheels, and a midwife’s bag, as well as simple text and images such as an early survey map of Los Angeles and Biddy’s freedom papers.

The history begins at the right (northernmost) end of the wall with the text “Biddy Mason born a slave,” and progresses in time to the inscription: “Los Angeles mourns and reveres Grandma Mason.” More

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