Bruce Lee Art Is the Expression of the Soul
Nosotros return to Bruce Lee's Library to examine another book that greatly influenced Bruce Lee'due south philosophy. Bruce would underline and annotate his books, and would journal virtually them creating his own version of a book report afterwards reading. In his book of Zen in Japanese Art, A Style of Spiritual Experience 
This volume, Zen in Japanese Art, A Fashion of Spiritual Feel by Toshimitsu Hasumi, is about the notion that Japanese Art, or Zen in Japanese art, is a spiritual experience that is continued to nature, the Tao, the artist, and the viewer of the art. There is a spiritual essence woven inside the art so that through the uncomplicated nature of the art much more tin be felt.
The first excerpt that Bruce Lee highlighted in this book is:
"Art is the form-linguistic communication of the human soul."
In the confines of this book the author is talking about fine art, simply in Bruce Lee'due south philosophy art is expressing one'southward soul out in the globe in our individual ways, even if the art is simply the creating one'south own life. For Bruce Lee, his art was a physical art every bit it was a martial art. Your own soul should speak through your creation.
"The soul lends a new significant to form; it seeks in artistic expression to disembalm the harmony of the catholic revelation."
"Art is the giving of form to the formless."
"Art helps us to penetrate deep into the inner structure of the creation."
All of these quotes that Bruce Lee underlined connect to his ain creation and cultivation of himself and his art of Jeet Kune Do. These quotes also connect to Bruce's thoughts on how one must be i with nature besides as his thoughts on the formless form, the void, and the goose egg.
"Love of nature non only shows the way to contemplative transcendence: even more it is a guide into the meditative earth of the spirit."
"Outward technique past itself is non art. It is only through long grooming of the soul that the educatee is brought to the true inward technique."
Bruce Lee had many of his own writings where he stated that art is the reflection of the soul, and that the artist should have mastery over themself to be at the height of their discipline.
Information technology is interesting that Bruce Lee, a Chinese man, would possess and study a book on Japanese art considering on the surface level it seems to accept nothing to practice with what he was pursuing. Nonetheless, he highlighted this passage that indicates the value he saw in the study of other cultures: "The very endeavour to understand a foreign culture develops the comprehensiveness and liveliness of the capacity for agreement one's own tradition."
"The most important artful principle is harmony."
"Civilisation… is a system constructed by the free soul, built up on the basis of nature by means of personal actions and laying claim to universal understanding."
"The more deeply grounded the creative person's soul, the more than original it is."
All of these underlined quotes really point towards the core parts of Bruce Lee's philosophies relating to living authentically, self-appearing, honestly expressing oneself, and being a free soul.
"Philosophers, men of learning, and masters in all branches of art must commencement be masters of living, for the soul creates everything."
In this book, the author is talking about how in order for the fine art to exist spiritual, and a spiritual feel for everyone, the artist has to be a main of life who has washed the piece of work of soul searching so as to be the channel for the art.
In all of these highlighted sections, the art is described every bit the procedure not as the production of the creative person.
"Art is an eternal manner that can never be completed, and finds neither satiety nor fulfillment."
"…art is the manner to the Accented and to the essence of human life."
Even though all of these quotes are describing art, they tin be applied to the creation of i'southward own life.
The creation of harmony in your life is a life-long process it is never finished.
"Everything is unstable and subject to change, and only when the self returns to the higher Self is truth perceived, attained, and experienced."
**"The ten steps in the experience of truth in the DO:
- Seeking and striving after truth:…with a view to grasping everything essential
- Awareness of truth:…a definite attitude of mind is required
- Perception of truth
- Understanding of truth
- Experiencing of truth
- Mastering truth
- Forgetting truth
- Forgetting the carrier of truth
- Render to the primal source where truth has its roots
- Placidity in the Naught"**
"The aim of art, however, is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul, and sense, but the opening of all human capacities – idea, feeling, and volition – to the life rhythm of the world of nature: so will the voiceless vocalization exist heard and the self exist brought into harmony with information technology."
On the outset page of this book, Bruce wrote the following notes:
"Through art our own soul are what nosotros must utilize to give a new form and a new meaning to nature or the globe. Art reveals itself in psychic understanding of the inner essence of things, and gives form to the relation of man with the NOTHING, with the nature of the Accented. Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, adult by reflection inside the soul. "Artless art" is the artistic process within the artist, and its meaning is "art of the soul". All the various moves of all the tools hateful a footstep on the fashion to the accented aesthetic world of the soul. Creation in art is the psychic unfolding of the personality, which is rooted in the Cypher. Its effect is the deepening of the personal dimension of the soul. Artistic skill, therefore, does not hateful creative perfection: it remains rather a continuing medium or reflection of some pace in psychic development, the perfection of which is not to be found in shape and class, but must radiate from the human soul. The artistic activity does not consist in art itself as such: information technology penetrates into a deeper world in which all art forms of things inwardly experienced flow together, and in which the harmony of soul and creation in the Null has its issue in reality."
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