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What does it mean?
Reality is pure being, free from attachments and complexity, giving true freedom.
In plain terms
Reality is simply existence, unrestricted and free.
What can you take from it?
Embrace the simplicity of being to find freedom.

Where it applies

  • meditation
  • spiritual practice

Putting it to work

  • let go of rigid concepts
  • focus on present existence

Questions to consider

  • How does attachment limit your freedom?
  • What aspects of life benefit from attachment?

Another view

Complete detachment can be impractical in everyday responsibilities.

More from Bruce Lee

  1. Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare. - There is 'what is' only when there is no comparison at all, and to live with what is, is to be peaceful.

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  2. A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred - the human law in himself, his own individual will.

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  3. True thusness is without defiling thought; it cannot be known through conception and thought.

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