Open Yourself and Flow, My Friend

OPEN YOURSELF AND FLOW, MY FRIEND! FLOW IN THE TOTAL OPPENNESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT

    This write up is about decoding the above philosophical quote by Bruce Lee. Whenever I read about Bruce Lee there is something new I discover. His thoughts are so deep and surprising. Sometimes I feel he lived 330 years in his actual 33 years of life. I try to break up his thoughts in my understanding. This is important for me to break this up so that I can practice his philosophy in my life. He famously said, "learning is not enough, we must apply". 

Open Yourself: To understand what 'Openness' would mean I would like to think of what could be characteristic of closed personality. A 'Closed' personality may mean having a rigid personality who is not ready to accept change. A person who is not ready to take risk and experiment. 

In my understanding Bruce Lee here is asking to be flexible and become shameless to take risk and accept new experiences.  

Openness also mean being candour (frank) and truthful. 

Flow: Bruce Lee have spoken about being water and its characteristics. Water has the character to flow. Bruce Lee wants us to flow like water. 

"Be Water, My Friend. Empty your mind"

Be formless, shapeless, like water.
You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup.
You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle.
You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
Now water can flow or it can crash.
Be water, my friend.

Flow In The Total Openness of the Living Moment: I think Bruce Lee is stressing loud here to realize this very moment in which we are living. Let's think about this very moment of day or night. And are we flowing like water with experimenting the work which we are doing right now? 

Written by: Mohamed Irfan

About the Author: Irfan is a mad content writer and boring guy (that nice guy who you remember when you need some help) who think others are damn f** boring and talk nonsense shit. He like conversation on philosophy, current affairs and political strategies. Irfan is a double faced human full of anger in heart and smile in face.