Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Circle With No Circumference

Jeet Kune Do, ultimately, is not a matter of petty technique but of highly developed personal spirituality and physique.

It is not a question of developing what has already been developed but of recovering what has been left behind.

These things have been with us, in us, all the time and have never been lost or distorted except by our misguided manipulation of them. Jeet Kune Do is not a matter of technology but of spiritual insight and training.

The tools are at an undifferentiated center of a circle that has no circumference, moving and yet not moving, in tension and yet relaxed, seeing everything happening and yet not at all anxious about its outcome, with nothing purposely designed, nothing consciously calculated, no anticipation, no expectation — in short, standing innocently like a baby and yet, with all the cunning, subterfuge and keen intelligence of a fully mature kind. (more…)