------The Way of No-Mindedness----- Although quietude and calmness are necessary, it is the non-graspingness of the mind that mainly constitutes the principle of no-mindedness. A gungfu man employs his mind as a mirror-it grasps nothing, yet it refuses nothing; it receives, but does not keep. As Alan Watts put it, no-mindedness is a state of wholeness in which the mind functions freely and easily, without the sensation of a second mind or ego standing over it with a club. What he means is to let the mind think what it likes without the interference by the separate thinker or ego within oneself. So long as it thinks what it wants, there is absolutely no effort in letting go, and the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker........There is nothing to try to do, for whatever comes up moment by moment is accepted, including nonacceptance. No-mindedness is then not being without emotion or felling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked. It is a mind immune to emotional influences, like a river in which everything is flowing on ceaselessly without cessation or standing still. ~ Bruce Lee
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