"...to be formless like water..."
"...you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup..."
You see that I must add that water is formless, YET, it has a structure, the structure or form of whatever it is put into (i.e., a tea pot).
This means that even water is not absolutely formless.
To be absolutely formless, means that you live life with absolute freedom (to do anything you want to do); You live in a consequence-free environment--this is morally and logically wrong.
Linda Lee Cadwell, Bruce's widow, also said in the "Bruce Lee: A Warrior's Journey" DVD, copyr. 2000, that "over the years [Bruce's "Using No way as Way, Having no limitation as limitation"] has been misinterpreted to mean "I can do anything I want, or anything I do, is my way".
Water is formless, able to adapt, yet it has a structure, a set of principles or rules, the rule of taking the shape of whatever it occupies. These set of rules are universal truths--to stay away from recreational, harmful drugs that put the user in a haze and make the user make bad decisions. Or, to stay away from the vice and pitfall of an adulterous affair (with Betty Ting Pei).
If I were to learn from a definitive, authoritative source that Bruce indeed used hashish and indeed had an affair, it would not put Bruce's life in a negative light. It would make me see that Bruce was a human being, capable of making mistakes.
Posted on Aug 12, 2008, 3:25 PM from IP address 24.193.249.217