Water by Bruce Lee
A) Transcript
Bruce Lee: … It’s very slow,
Pierre Berton: Oh is it?
Bruce Lee: And you push it out, but all the time you are keeping the continuity going. Bending, stretching, everything… you know, I mean you just keep it moving…
Pierre Berton: It’s like a belly dancer there…
Bruce Lee: Yea it is, I mean to them you see the idea is, running water never grows stale, so you gotta just keep on flowing…
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Pierre Berton: There are some lines there that expressed your philosophy, I don’t know if you can remember them or not…
Bruce Lee: Oh I remember that, I said…
Pierre Berton: Let’s hear it.
Bruce Lee: This is what it is okay…
Pierre Berton: You’re talking to Longstreet played by James Franciscus.
Bruce Lee: I said empty your mind… be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle, you put in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or it can crash. Be water my friend. Like that you see…
Pierre Berton: I see I get the idea.
Bruce Lee: Ahaa!
Pierre Berton: I get the… power behind it.
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Pierre Berton: Can you break five or six uh pieces of wood with your hand or your foot?
Bruce Lee: I'll probably break my hand and foot hahahahhaaa.
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Pierre Berton: You still think yourself Chinese or do you ever think of yourself as North American?
Bruce Lee: You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because… I mean I don't want it sounds like, you know as Confucius say, but under the sky, under the heaven man, there is but one family… it just so happened man, that people are different.
Pierre Berton: Okay we gotta go, thank you Bruce Lee for coming here thank you for watching
Bruce Lee: Thank you.
Pierre Berton: Thank you for watching.
Bruce Lee: Thank you.
B) Notes
Be water my friend.
C) Credits
Visual Credits
Sea Water Blue Ocean by Uzunov Rostislav (Pexels, 15 April 2021)
Bruce Lee Interview (The Pierre Berton Show, 1971)
Music Credits
Muscle Memory by Ibi (YouTube, 24 February 2021)
