Thanks for the book recommendation, Ant! I'll be checking it out. And I am happy you are enjoying Big Sur... I had a hard time putting it down too.
Many thanks and best wishes, Dan http://www.danglover.com On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> wrote: > A long term correspondent of mine (from Italy - he knows who he is!) kindly > sent me some selected pages recently from Bruce Lee's 'Artist of Life' - a > compilation of Lee's philosophy letters and essays. My correspondent says: > > "Bruce Lee is definitely on the same wavelenght as Dr Pirsig is, although Bob > didn't apply his wisdom to make his body as excellent as 'a human body' could > be, if trained and feed properly. Bruce died in perfect health (as strange as > this can sound, nobody can prevent allergic reactions to drugs you are taking > since forever - as it happened to Lee- ): longevity is something that > medicine can never donate for granted, but using our intellect to live in > health and painless in the NOW and 'being' a strong and vigorous biological > man is relatively easy today." > > Anyway, I don't know if anyone else on this Board has read this intriguing > compliation but from the brief extracts that I have read from it - so far - > it really is very good. (Talking about artists of life, I'm presently > reading Henry Miller's "Big Sur" book at the moment - recently recommended by > Dan. Miller's book really is well written and a difficult book to put down > (for me anyway). If you have thought about living in a community of artists > - and, of course, if you have read Doorly's text on the MOQ & art, you will > know that we don't just mean fine artists here - it makes for a fascinating > read). > > Best wishes, > > Ant > > ---------------------------------------- > > Bruce Lee: 'Artist of Life' explores the development and fruition of Bruce > Lee's though about gung fu, philosophy, psychology, poetry, jeet kune do, > acting, and self-knowledge. > > This volume from Bruce Lee's private notebooks is capped by a selection of > Lee's letters that eloquently demonstrate how he incorporated his thought > into actions and advice to others. Also included are multiple drafts of > select compositions, showing how Lee's thought evolved and was refined over > the years and how the ideas he was reading and writing about were reflected > in his work and everyday life. > > > Author Bio: > > John Little is considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on > Bruce Lee. He's the only person who has ever been authorized to review the > entirety of Lee's personal notes, sketches and reading annotations, > giving him an insider's look at Lee's training methods and philosophies. > He's shared this information with Lee's fans in his books published by > Tuttle Publishing, including: 'The Art of Expressing the Human Body'; 'Jeet > Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way'; 'Letters of the > Dragon'; 'The Tao of Gung Fu: A Study in the Way of Chinese Martial Art'; > 'Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living and Bruce Lee: The > Celebrated Life of the Golden Dragon'. > > http://www.tuttlepublishing.com/authors/lee-bruce/artist-of-life -- Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
