BE FORMLESS: What did Bruce Lee really mean by that?

Dear Ones,

I believe many of you did come across the famous Bruce Lee's "Water Philosophy" below:

Many of you do like his quote, but to be honest, do you really understand the real underlying meaning behind this quote? You may think that water is formless and you may also know that what Bruce Lee attempted to advise us is to be AGILE and FLEXIBLE. But water is just an example given by him, it doesn't mean water is the only thing that can be used to convey his meaning.

Here, I would like to go a little further in explaining the meaning of FORMLESS by Bruce Lee:

FORMLESS by Bruce Lee doesn't always mean 'shapeless' and 'water' is not the only metaphor to describe it. Formless can be a constantly changing shape, nature, and its material according to the right time at the right place with the right opponent. For example, while behaving like water, the elites may be able to control your flow using the mineral called 'iron piping system', therefore at this moment, you can transform yourself into 'fire' to melt the iron/steel. When you turn yourself into fire, they may once again trying to eliminate you by using water, then you can change yourself into steel. Just when you have changed yourself into steel, they may want to use fire to melt you. As such, you can now change yourself into water again. When you're able to be as agile as that extent, then you're FORMLESS at its TOTALITY. People who're too EGO may be losing this natural ability out human's spiritual power because of the prejudice that they're trying to defend. For example, "I don't believe that water cannot fight steel!" or "I want to prove to them that steel can fight fire!" and so on.

In Tao, other than Yin-Yang, some of you may also learn about the co-relation between Mineral, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth (金、木、水、火、土), then the above explanation will be the Yin-Yang among those 5 elements on how ones can spiritually sharp enough to play with these 5 elements in the right time, at the right place, with the right opponent. This is being a FORM of FORMLESS and being a FORMLESS of FORM. This is also very much similar to what I meant by 'Permanency of the Impermanent' so to speak and this is also when you began to turn yourself into 'multidimensional'.

However, Dear Ones, all these are 4th dimension consciousness and once misuse it, it will end up like the world that we're currently living in today. Likewise, if you use it for the balance and peace of the cosmos, including the beauty of the planet Earth, then you're in 5th dimension consciousness or beyond at the same time being multidimensional from 1D through 9D because you see it as the whole beauty of the totality rather than for the sole advantage of your personal agenda. If you abuse it, as I mentioned in my earlier blog (shown below), you will eventually fall back to 3D because when any of the deceptive thought began in your mind, self-limitation occurs and you began to narrow down your mind for your own selfishness -- this makes your knowledge of the cosmic law mentioned above NOT FULLY FUNCTIONAL because you no longer be able to see the whole picture and overlook certain important factors that make it works. Hence, you will fall into the self-destructive state again -- this is the whole cycle of it.

Therefore Dear Ones, be FORMLESS, for its whole nature is to balance up the beautiful state of the cosmos, not to create imbalance for the deceptive agenda of any.

Namaste. (-.-)

Antonio Ooi

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