The Form of No Forms

[not_that_spike]

Too much sitting around and doing nothing. Bars are fun, but not every day and since I can't seem to leave and go back to where I was, no point in sitting around complaining about it. At least there's the lake.

There's no set forms to practice but at least I can move. At least I can stretch and stay in some kind of shape and I remember what Bruce Lee said: Having no way as the way. Having no limitation as your limitation. It's something you really get to understand and believe and if Jeet Kune Do is an art form and life imitates art, that means there are no limitations here either -- except the ones I impose on myself.

So that means the door at the bar will open for me when I'm ready for it to open. How Zen of it.

I'm pretty sure I'm dead. That's a fucked-up statement. Can't even try to get my brain around that concept, because it blows away all the other concepts of finality I ever held as true. It was supposed to be the end: I kill Vicious and he kills me and then we're both free. So what lets me end up at some bar at the end of the universe without him following me all through eternity?

(bow) Bruce Lee again: Set patterns, incapable of adaptability, of pliability, only offer a better cage. Truth is outside of all patterns.

It's sure outside this pattern.

(breathe) Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.

Bound by none. They call being stuck here being Bound. So who or what binds us?

(stretch) Learning Jeet Kune Do is not a matter of seeking knowledge or accumulating stylized pattern, but it is discovering the cause of ignorance.

Have to always remind myself of that: discover the cause of ignorance.

Opening the mind and at the same time closing the mind takes concentration but (lunge) gets me to a state of (kick) meditative nothingness (block) where everything becomes fluid (tumble) like water and time slows down (punch) and every movement sends vibrational echoes (kick) that you can see just like (kick / balance / block ) waves of heat off (roll) desert sand.

Movement is good. Movement has repercussions. Movement has lasting effects.

Relax.
Balance.
Visualize.
Focus.
Perceive.

(kick / kick / kick / kick / balance / breathe / breathe / breathe)

Thank you, bar.

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[maid-of-astolat.livejournal.com]

Elaine smiles. His explanation so far makes a sort of sense, though she can't imagine how a fight like this would look. "Lead on, sir. I could use a refreshment myself."

[not_that_spike]

Together, they head inside to the bar. Maybe he'll find his lighter there.

Or maybe not.