'A teacher is never a giver of truth-he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself. A good teacher is meerely a catalyst.'-Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee's phenomenal life and career were energized by his ideas. They made it possible for him to live a happy and assured life, overcoming difficult obstacles with seeming ease. And they inspired his family, friends, students, and colleagues-helping them acheve success in their own lives.

Within the pages of Striking Thoughts you will find the secrets of Bruce Lee's amazing success-as an actor, martial artist, and inspiraton to the world. With over 800 entries, covering more than 70 topics from sprituality to personal liberaton and from family life to filmmaking, it offers an amazng direct transmssion of the beliefs Bruce Lee lived by.

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living provides a great legacy-a book for all who seek truth, but have not yet found it.

Bruce Lee studied gung fu in Hong Kong under the legendary master Yip Man. After attending the University of Washington as a philosophy majjor, Lee established a gung fu institute in Oakland, California, in 1964, to teach the art he later named jeet kune do. From a young age, and throughout his seven-year television and film career, he wrote prodigiously on all topics that attracted his interest-particularly philosophy. He died of cerebral edema in Hong Kong in 1973, at the age of 32. John Little is the world's foremost authority on the life and work of Bruce Lee, his training methods, and his philosophy.

Contents

Recollections on the thought of Bruce Lee
Preface by Linda Lee Cadwell
Introduction by John Little
Part I On first principles
1 Life
3 Existence
4 Time
5 The foot
6 The now
7 Reality
8 The laws
9 Interdependency
10 The void
11 On death
Part II On being human
12 The human being
13 Action
14 Wu-wei (natural action)
15 The mind
16 Thinking
17 Concepts (abstracting)
18 Knowledge
19 Ideas
20 Perception
21 The ego (self-consciouisness)
22 Concentration
23 On reason
24 Emotion
25 Happiness
26 Fear
27 Will
28 Good will
29 Dreams
30 Spirituality
Part III On matters of existence
31 Health
32 Courtship
33 Love
34 Marriage
35 On raising children
36 Education
37 Teaching
38 Ethics
39 Adversity
41 Confrontation
42 Adaptability
43 Philosophy
Part IV On achievement
44 On work
45 Quality
46 Motivation
47 Goals
48 Faith
49 Success
50 Money
51 Fame
52 Flattery
Pat V On art and artists
53 Art
54 Film making
55 Acting
Part VI On personal liberation
56 Conditioning
57 Systems
58 Detachment
59 No-mindedness (Wu-hsin)
60 Zen buddhism
61 Meditation
62 On being centered
63 Freedom
Part VII The process of becoming
64 Self-actualization
65 Self-help
66 Self-knowedge
67 Self-expression
68 On growth
69 Simplicity
Part VIII On ultimate (final) principles
70 Yin-yang
71 Totality
72 Tao
73 Truth