6 Philosopher

Chapter 5 Philosopher Bruce's ability to perform martial arts almost ended in 1970. One morning, he was lifting weights when he felt a pain in his back. The next day, the pain was worse. The day after that, it was worse still. Soon, the pain was unbearable. He went to see a doctor. The doctor told Bruce he had permanently damaged a nerve in his back. He said Bruce's kung fu career was over. Bruce was confined to bed for the next three months. For three months after that, he still couldn't do any martial arts. That was six full months with no martial-arts training. "In every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles—big or small," he later said. "The reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself."

哲学家布鲁斯表演武术的能力在1970年几乎结束了。 一天早上，他正在举重，突然感到背部疼痛。 第二天，疼痛加重了。 第三天，情况更糟了。 很快，疼痛变得难以忍受。 他去看医生。医生告诉布鲁斯，他背部的一根神经永久性地受损了。 他说布鲁斯的功夫生涯结束了。 布鲁斯在接下来的三个月里只能卧床休息。 在那之后的三个月里，他仍然不会武术。 整整六个月没有接受任何武术训练。 “在每一件大事或成就中，总有或大或小的障碍，”他后来说。 “重要的是一个人对这些障碍的反应，而不是障碍本身。”

In this case, Bruce's obstacle was his injury. For the first time in his life, he wasn't in motion. How did he react to it? Well, he didn't mope around feeling sorry for himself. And he didn't waste his time, either. Instead, he continued to develop his philosophy—his personal code of conduct. Bruce read many books on other people's ideas of what the basic principles of life might be. He had a huge library. He once estimated he had more than 2,500 books!

在这个案例中，布鲁斯的障碍是他的伤势。 这是他有生以来第一次没有动起来。 他对此有何反应？他没有闷闷不乐地自怨自艾。 他也没有浪费时间。 相反，他继续发展他的哲学——他的个人行为准则。 布鲁斯读了很多关于别人对生活基本原则的看法的书。 他有一个很大的图书馆。他曾经估计他有2500多本书！

Bruce studied those books, and he thought about a lot of things. He thought about jeet kune do. He thought about life. He thought about how he could bring more of his thoughts about

布鲁斯研究了那些书，他思考了很多事情。 他想到了截拳道。 他思考人生。他思考着怎样才能把更多的想法带回来

life into his teaching of the martial arts. He also began to write. His notes have been compiled into many different books about jeet kune do, the martial arts, and wisdom for everyday living. Still, Bruce had always been a man on the move, and he needed to get back into action. He knew what the doctor had told him: He set out to prove the doctor wrong. Bruce mapped out his own strategy for getting better. He started slowly at first, then gradually worked his way back into shape. He had to deal with pain in his back for the rest of his life. Otherwise, though, he was as good as ever. Bruce was able to return to the martial arts in large part because his ways of training and fitness were revolutionary. His methods were considered extremely unusual for his day, but they have long since become accepted. Consider weight training, for instance. In Bruce's time, weight training was used mostly by huge bodybuilders who wanted to make their muscles as big as possible. Bruce was only about

生活融入了他的武术教学。 他也开始写作。他的笔记被整理成许多关于截拳道、武术和日常生活智慧的书。 尽管如此，布鲁斯一直是一个活跃的人，他需要重新开始行动。 他知道医生对他说了什么，他开始证明医生是错的。 布鲁斯制定了自己的改善策略。 他开始时动作缓慢，然后逐渐恢复了状态。 他不得不在他的余生中与背部疼痛作斗争。 除此之外，他还是和以前一样好。 布鲁斯能够回归武术很大程度上是因为他的训练和健身方式是革命性的。 他的方法在当时被认为是极不寻常的，但它们早已被人们所接受。 以重量训练为例。 在布鲁斯的时代，举重训练主要是由体型庞大的健美运动员进行的，他们想让自己的肌肉尽可能大。 布鲁斯只是

five-feet seven-inches tall and weighed only 140 pounds. Still, he trained with weights. He didn't care about how big his muscles were, he cared how useful they were. Though he was not big, his strength was legendary. He was so strong that he could do fifty chin-ups—using only one arm!

身高5英尺7英寸，体重只有140磅。 尽管如此，他还是进行了举重训练。 他不在乎他的肌肉有多大，他在乎的是它们有多有用。 虽然他个子不高，但他的力量是传奇的。 他很强壮，只用一只胳膊就能做50个引体向上！

THE WISDOM OF BRUCE LEE: A FEW OF HIS MOST FAMOUS SAYINGS "I FEAR NOT THE MAN WHO HAS PRACTICED TEN THOUSAND KICKS ONCE, BUT I FEAR THE MAN WHO HAS PRACTICED ONE KICK TEN THOUSAND TIMES." "NOTICE THAT THE STIFFEST TREE IS MOST EASILY CRACKED, WHILE THE BAMBOO OR WILLOW SURVIVES BY BENDING WITH THE WIND."

李小龙的智慧：他的几句名言“我不怕一个人踢了一万次，我怕的是一个人踢了一万次。” “请注意，最坚硬的树最容易折断，而竹子或柳树却能随风弯曲而存活下来。”