The Tao of Jeet Kune Do

This book will reveal to you the identity of the legendary Bruce Lee in all its fullness and variety. The cult actor and director, an outstanding master of the Eastern martial arts, unexpectedly opens his inner world, where he appears as a poet, philosopher, writer, choreographer, husband, father, and friend. You will meet for the first time his reflections on life and destiny, on personal becoming and on the way the world is arranged—with his poetic vision of the world.

A Chinese man born in the United States, Lee had a unique opportunity to comprehend two great cultural traditions: East and West. He studied the wisdom of India and China’s sages, the thinkers of ancient Greece and of the modern era. Yet, he considered art—the “visible music of the soul”—to be the pinnacle of knowledge and his own calling. This book is a confession of an artist of life who chose the difficult and noble path of calm reason.

Art was also his life itself, described in this book—a collection of autobiographical notes, letters, and poems.