“BE WATER MY FRIEND” by Bruce Lee

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." - Bruce Lee.

How many times we are free to be real our self?

We as humans, most of the time, are not free, we don’t let us be free to be really as we are. We are wearing a mask, we are hiding from the other judgements.

We prefer to create an image of us (and today with social network and virtuality it is at his maximum) that show something we would like to be, or the others would like we would be, or just because it is more easy to be…. But in any case we are giving us a shape, we put our self in a model in a scheme , we make a picture of us made by us, that is not the reality we have inside.

It happens in our mind, we create our own reality to be better, to be accepted, to show something we are not. Doing this, we become rigid, rigid in the way we let the things flow around us, rigid to react and act, following always the same schemes.

In few words, we are not at all like water, that does not chose to be a shape, it has not. It flows every time in different shapes.

Every day is different and we face so many different situations, so why we should react and act in the same way?

We are slave of the schemes, we are not free to follow what we feel deep inside, what let us express as we really are.

When we are in a scheme, it is difficult to come out, to be free, following what we call “consistency”. We can be consistent with what we represent, with our scheme but never free never “FORMLESS”, never “SHAPELESS”.

“EMPTY YOUR MIND”, stop to be someone similar to others, stop to follow the patterns of other, their schemes. An empty mind is not slave of any others, is out of all schemes and in all schemes in the same time.

The water that is adapting to every shape, is the mind that can adapt to every situation.

Be water, be flexible, be adaptable, be sensible, don’t use the force against the opponent, don’t be rigid.. but flow and use the energy to your favor. Be fluid.

Be water means to use the force of the pliability, to be extremely strong (if not controlled can be destructive) and extremely adaptable (become every shape, go around the obstacles, like a river follow every path).

To be stronger, we have to adapt, to be open to changes, to others, to different point of view to different situations.

BE WATER MY FRIENDS! … and always SMILE!