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睡觉的诀窍

     根据医学和我的体验、观察，一个人真正睡着觉最多只有两个钟头，其余都是浪费时间，躺在枕头上做梦，没有哪个人不做梦。至于醒来觉得自己没有做梦，那是因为他忘记了。

　　通常一个人睡两个钟头就够了，为什么有人要睡七、八个钟头？那是你赖床躺在枕头上休息的习惯养成的，并非我们需要那么久的睡眠时间，尤其打坐做功夫的人晓得，正午只要闭眼真正睡着三分钟，等于睡两个钟头，不过要对好正午的时间。夜晚则要在正子时睡着，五分钟等于六个钟头。

　　就这个时间的学问又大了，同宇宙法则、地球法则、易经阴阳的道理有关系，而且你会感觉到，心脏下面硬是有一股力量降下来，与丹田（肾上）的力量融合，所谓“水火既济”，豁然一下，那你睡眠够了，精神百倍。

　　所以失眠或真要夜里熬夜的人，正子时的时刻，哪怕二十分钟也一定要睡，睡不着也要训练自己睡着。

　　过了正子时大约十二点半以后，你不会想睡了，这很糟糕。更严重的，到了天快亮，四、五点钟，五、六点卯时的时候，你又困得想睡，这时如果一睡，一天都会昏头。

　　所以想从事熬夜工作的人，正子时，即使有天大的事也要摆下来，睡它半小时，到了卯时想睡觉千万不要睡，那一天精神就够了。

　　不过失眠的人都挨过十二点，在床上翻来覆去睡不着，结果快天亮睡着了，到第二天下午都昏头昏脑，因此你会感觉失眠、睡眠不足，实际上是你没有经验。

睡眠与养生[转载]

     一、睡眠的规则

　　战国时名医文挚对齐威王说：“我的养生之道把睡眠放在头等位置，人和动物只有睡眠才生长，睡眠帮助脾胃消化食物，所以，所以睡眠是养生的第一大补，人一个晚上不睡觉，其损失一百天也难以恢复。”

　　晚21点到凌晨5点为有效睡眠时间。人是动物，和植物同属于生物，白天（凌晨5点到晚上21点）活动产生能量，晚上（21点到凌晨5点）开始进行细胞分裂，把能量转化为新生的细胞，是人体细胞休养生息、推陈出新的时间，也是人随着地球旋转到背向太阳的一面。阴主静，是人睡眠的良辰，此时休息，才会有良好的身体和精神状态。这和睡觉多的婴儿长得胖、长得快，而爱闹觉的孩子发育不良是一样的道理。

　　睡觉是养生的一大功能，养就是用大量的健康细胞去取代腐败的细胞，如一夜睡不着就换不了新细胞。如果说白天消亡一百万个细胞，一晚上只补回来五十万个细胞，这时你的身体就会出现亏空，时间长了，人就糠了，像糠萝卜似的。为什么世上有百岁老人呢？因为他们每晚都在21点钟准时睡觉。

　　植物吸收阳光的能量，夜里生长，所以夜晚在农村的庄稼地里可听到拔节的声音。人类和植物同属于生物，细胞分裂的时间段大致相同，错过夜里睡觉的良辰，细胞的新生远赶不上消亡，人就会过早的衰老或患病，人要顺其自然，就应跟着太阳走，即天醒我醒，天睡我睡。人在太阳面前小如微尘，“与太阳对着干”是愚蠢的选择，迟早会被太阳巨大的引力催垮。这是客观真理。

　　现实生活中，不少人有入睡难，睡眠质量不高的毛病。睡眠不好是一个综合性的问题，如肝火过盛，睡觉警觉；胃火过剩，睡觉不安；肝阴不足，睡觉劳累。

　　二、睡眠与疾病

　　现代的生活习惯和生活方式给人们的身体带来了很多负面影响形成“四大病”：水果病、冰箱病、电视电脑病、熬夜病。肝脏有一特点：卧则回血，坐立向外供血。

　　子时（23：00—1：00），其实23点就是新的一天的开始，并不是0点开始的，这是我们犯的误识。肝胆相表里，互为一家，23点胆经开了，如若不睡，大伤胆气，由于十一脏腑皆取决于胆也，胆气一虚，全身脏腑功能下降，代谢力、免疫力纷纷下降，人体机能大大降低，胆气支持中枢神经，胆气受伤易患各种精神疾病，比如抑郁症、精神分裂症、强迫症、躁动症等。子时胆要更换胆汁，胆经渐旺人如不卧，胆汁更替不利，过浓而结晶成石，久之即得胆结石，如果把胆给摘了，一摘就胆怯了，全身的免疫力下降了50％以上，所以不能摘，要用它本系统的巨大潜能把它化掉。

　　丑时肝经最旺，丑时（1：00—3：00）不眠，肝无法解除掉有毒之物，产生新鲜血液，因藏血不利，面呈青色，久之易患各类肝病，现在有些人肝不太好，特别在欧洲平均4个人就有一个大三阳或是小三阳，大都是因为违反自然规律过了子时不睡觉造成的。甲肝比较好治，乙肝就很难治。乙肝病毒携带者，是由于晚上经常不睡觉，人太虚弱了，也就是说秩序太乱了，病毒已经到了细胞里了。也就是说乙肝的病毒已经到了细胞里面，但是现在它还没有能力造成肝炎，当人身体处于最薄弱的时候就形成成肝炎，乙型肝炎就意味着将来40％——60％的肝硬化。聪明的人是应该了解天、地、人之间的关系，不聪明的人就是应该被淘汰的人。

　　肝主疏泄，过子时不睡，可引起肝疏泄不利，肝气郁结，可见易怒，头痛头晕，眼红，眼痛，耳鸣，耳聋，胸肋胀痛，女性月经不调，便秘，也可引起肝气升发不足，人会目倦神疲，腰膝酸软，晕眩，失眠，惊悸，精神恍惚，重则会晕倒在大街上，不省人事。

　　肝有藏血、调节血液的功能，过子时不睡，会造成肝血不足，还会引起吐血、流鼻血、皮下出血、牙龈出血、眼底出血、耳出血等出血证状。

　　肝开窍于目，过子时不睡，易引起肝虚，则出现视力模糊、老花、夜盲、畏光、迎风流泪，等症状，还会形成青光眼、白内障、眼底动脉硬化、视网膜病变等眼疾。

　　肝主筋，其华在爪，过子时不睡觉，会引起肝血不足，就出现筋痛，麻木，屈伸困难，痉挛抽搐，易造成灰指甲，缺钙，髌骨软化，癫痫病，骨质疏松等症。

　　肝与心，过子时不睡觉，可引起肝血不足，由于心主一身之血脉，肝有储藏和调节血液的功能，会造成心脏供血不足，引起心慌、心颤等症状，严重的形成心脏病、高血压等心脑血管疾病。

　　肝与脾，过子时不睡觉，会引起肝胃不和，由于肝助脾胃消化，由于肝气太虚不能助脾胃消化，使人脾胃消化功能不好，表现为舌苔厚，长期以来会造成中气塌陷。

　　肝与肺，过子时不睡觉，无法滋阴潜阳，肝阴亏损，引起肝火过盛灼肺，出现干咳、或咳嗽、咳痰血等木火刑金的证状，易导致牛皮癣等各种皮肤病。

　　肝与肾，过子时不睡觉，肝虚导致肾亏，由于肝肾同源，容易造成生殖系统疾病、不育、骨病、牙病、脱发、糖尿病、肾衰竭等疾病。

　　三、睡眠的方法

　　交通规则——你不懂就容易出事故。比如说，23点至凌晨3点为子丑时，胆肝经最活跃的时候，肝胆要回血，“躺下去回血，站起来供血”。如果你每晚22点钟左右躺下，静静得不要说话，到23点的时候，也就睡着了。肝胆开始回血，把有毒的血过滤掉，产生新鲜的血液，到一百岁也没有胆结石，也没有肝炎、囊肿一类的病。如果你天天熬夜到1点多，肝回不了血，有毒的血排不掉，新鲜的血生不成，胆又无法换胆汁，所以这些人容易得胆结石、囊肿、大三阳、小三阳各种病症。

　　在欧洲地区，平均四个人就有一个肝炎病毒携带者，这就叫不懂规则。睡前半小时最好不要讲话，睡觉的时候更不要说话，如一说话，肺经动，然后心经又动，（因为心肺共为上焦）人就容易进入兴奋状态，所以就很难入睡。

　　21：00—23：00为亥时。亥时三焦经旺，三焦通百脉。亥时入眠，百脉皆得濡养，故百岁老人得共同特点即21：00（亥时）之前入睡。女性若想长久的保持容颜娇好，应做到早睡早期。

　　睡觉要关窗，不能开风扇、不能开空调，人生病很多都与此有关，因为人在睡眠之中，气血流通缓慢，体温下降，人体会在表面形成一种阳气层，这种阳气层它使人叫“鬼魅不侵”，什么意思呢，阳气足的人，不做恶梦，就是这种阳气，占了上风。开空调，开风扇，情况就不一样了，开窗户，窗户走的是风，风入的是筋，如果开空调，也有风，风入筋，寒入骨，早上起来，身上发黄，脸发黄，脖子后面那条筋发硬，骨节酸痛，甚至有人就开始发烧，这就是风和寒侵入到了筋和骨头里的缘故，这也就是气受伤了。如果说晚上睡觉不开窗，不开空调，不开风扇，连房门也关上，效果最好，如果热，把房门打开，把窗户关上，效果就差了一点，但是他不至于第二天早上起来浑身乏力，后背僵硬.

　　有人把客厅的空调开开了，把卧室的门打开，和直接开空调睡觉是差不多的，开了空调以后，空调那个寒进了骨了，所以心里发冷，心在哪，心在脑髓，脑为髓之海，骨髓里有寒，那肯定心里就寒了，怎么办，补肾阳、补中气，什么时候补到心里不冷，烧就退了，寒走出去了。

　　睡觉要尽量早睡，睡得晚，伤了少阳之气，必然第二天是疲倦无力，要关上窗户，不开空调、电扇，保护阳气。

　　肝胆在下焦，如果胃出现问题的时候，他就会出现寝睡不安，一个是胃寒，如果这个人胃阳本来就不足，过多的喝绿茶，就会出现胃寒，胃寒的时候人是睡不好觉的，或者吃带泥沙之物过多，胃隐隐作寒，肯定是睡不好；

　　再一个是胃热，就是热气往上走，嘴里喘的都是热气，像这种情况也睡不好觉；再一个是胃燥，口干舌燥，胃里感觉到燥；

　　还有一个就是胃厚，气味的味，胃厚，这种情况就是吃了这种厚腻的味道，有人吃海鲜、吃鱼、吃炖鸡，味道好鲜美，吃多了，美味不可多用，这些东西在里面要稀释它，不稀释它，它在里面味太厚了，所以这个也睡不好觉；

　　再一个腹涨，腹是涨鼓鼓的，也睡不着，翻来覆去也睡不着；再一个是胃气太虚，冒冷汗，这也睡不好觉，这些原因都可能形成胃不宁，胃不宁就睡不好。

　　睡觉时要肢暖，四肢要暖，因为四肢是阳之本，这个大家都知道了，四肢不暖，肯定是肾阳不足，应该在睡觉之前把手脚捂暖，手脚和肚脐、背后的命门都要盖好。

　　睡眠法因人而异，下面介绍3种做法：

　　1、睡觉前简单的压腿，然后在床上自然盘坐，两手重叠放于腿上，自然呼吸，感觉全身毛孔随呼吸一张一合，若能流泪打哈欠效果最佳，到了想睡觉时倒下便睡。

　　2、仰卧，自然呼吸，感觉呼吸像春风，先融化大脚趾，然后是其他脚趾，接着脚、小腿、大腿逐渐融化。如还未醒着，再从头做。

　　3、入睡快的人可右侧卧，右手掌托右耳。右掌心为火，耳为水，二者形成水火即济，在人体中形成心肾相交。久之，养心滋肾。

　　睡眠一定要早起，即使在冬天，也不可超过6点起床，春夏秋季尽量在5点之前起床，因为人在寅时（3点—5点）肺经旺的时候起床，能够使肺气得以舒展，以顺应阳气的舒长，来完成新陈代谢，肃降浊气，使肺气清，这样有助于养肺和顺应太阳的天势升起人体阳气，使人一天阳气充足，否则，就好像发动机，过了这段好时机就很难发动人体阳气，人体阳气淤积在人体下部不能由命门向上发动升起，会形成淫气，严重损害人的身心健康。

　　早晨5点至7点是人体大肠经最旺的时候，人体需要把代谢的浊物排出体外，此时如果不起床，大肠得不到充分活动，无法很好的完成排浊功能，使浊物停留而形成毒素，危害人体血液和脏腑百骸。早晨7点到9点人体胃经最旺，9点到11点人体脾经最旺，这时人的消化吸收运化的能力最好，如果这时还不起床，人体胃酸会严重腐蚀胃粘膜，人体在最佳吸收营养时间得不到营养，长期以来会患脾胃疾病，造成营养不良、中气塌陷。所以千万不要赖床，赖床会造成头昏、疲惫不堪、睡眠不足的感觉，而应按时起床，历史上许多伟人都是有三四点钟起床的习惯，比如华盛顿、拿破仑、康熙皇帝、曾国藩等。另外早起能增加工作效益，俗话说：“三天早起，一天工”。

　　现代医学证明，早睡早起的人精神压力较小，不易患精神类疾病。早晨不要太早出去锻炼，因为早晨在太阳没有出来之前，地下道的漳气、浊气正往上走（尤其是城市），这些气对人体损伤是很严重的。

　　养身三大事，一睡眠，二便利，三饮食，其余起居、服装等皆是辅助。

　　三事中睡眠第一。然胃纳不和者，夜眠不安，故以通便利为第二。而饮食无节，饥饱过度者，肠胃必受伤，而营养日减。睡以安神为主，神以心安为主，应配合年龄，壮年至多七小时至八小时，多睡则智昏头晕眼红胀，四肢疲软，童年必睡足八小时，或过九小时勿碍，老或病人至多六小时已足。

　　应注意：
　　（一）睡眠宜早，勿过十时，老年人以八点为正，勿过九点。凡交十一时，为阳生时，属肾，此时失眠，肾水必亏，心肾相连，水亏则火旺，最易伤神。千万勿以安眠药片助睡。

　　（二）枕上切忌思索计算未来事，睡时宜一切不思，鼻息调匀，自己静听其气，由粗而细，由细而微细而息。视此身如无物，或如糖入于水，化为乌有，自然睡着。

　　（三）如有思想，不能安着，切勿在枕上转侧思虑，此最耗神，可坐起一时再睡。

　　（四）如在午时，即上午十一点至一点，为阴生之时，属心，此时如不能睡，可静坐一刻钟，闭目养神，则心气强。凡有心脏病者切宜注意，每日于此二时注意，则元气日强，无心跳腹泄或小便频速之病。

　　（五）夏日起宜早，冬日起宜迟。居北方宜防寒气，如在粤桂等省，早起防山岚瘴气中病。食后勿仰天睡，早起如在寅时三点至五点，此时切忌郁怒，必损肺伤肝，万望注意。

The one that started it all. Described by Lee's friends, family and students as being "vintage Bruce," The "Lost" Interview has quickly become a classic and is the only surviving interview on film. Bruce is interviewed by Canadian journalist Pierre Berton.

You do not have to watch it you can read it here:

Pierre Burton: Well how can you play in Mandarin movies if you don't even speak Mandarin?

Bruce Lee: Well first of all, I speak only Cantonese.

Pierre: Yeah.

Bruce Lee: So, I mean, there is quite a difference as pronunciation and things like that is concerned.

Pierre: So somebody else's voice is used right?

Bruce Lee: Definitely, definitely!!

Pierre: So you just make the words...doesn't that sound strange when you go to the movies, especially in Hong Kong, your home town, and you see yourself with somebody else's voice?

Bruce Lee: Well not really, you see, because most of the mandarin pictures here are dubbed anyway.

Pierre: They're dubbed anyway?

Bruce Lee: Anyway. I mean in this regard, they shoot without sound. So it doesn't make any difference.

Pierre: Your lips never quite make the right words, do they?

Bruce Lee: Yeah, well that's where the difficulty lies, you see. I mean in order to....the Cantonese have a different way of saying things....I mean different from the mandarin. So I have to find, like, something similar to that in order to keep a kind of a feeling going behind that (in my films). Something, you know, matching the mandarin deal. Does it sound complicated?

Pierre: Just like in the silent picture days (the old silent days). I gather that in the movies made here the dialogue is pretty stilted anyway.

Bruce Lee: Yeah, I agree with you. I mean, see, to me, a motion picture is motion. I mean, you've got to keep the dialogue down to the minimum.

Pierre: Did you look at mainly Mandarin movies before you started playing in your first one?

Bruce Lee: Yes.

Pierre: What did you think of them?

Bruce Lee: Quality wise, I mean, I would have to admit that it's not quite up to the standard. However, it is growing and it is getting higher and higher and going toward that standard that I would term quality.

Pierre: They say the secret of your success in that movie, the "Big Boss", that was such a success here, and rocketed you to stardom in Asia, was that you did your own fighting.

Bruce Lee: Uh-huh.

Pierre: As an expert in the various martial arts in China, what did you think of the fighting that you saw in the movies that you studied before you became a star?

Bruce Lee: Well, I mean, definitely in the beginning, I had no intention whatsoever, that what I was practicing, and what I'm still practicing now would lead to this, to begin with. But martial art has had a very, very deep meaning as far as my life is concerned because, as an actor, as a martial artist, as a human being, all these I have learned from martial art.

Pierre: Maybe for our audience who doesn't know what it means, you might be able to explain what exactly you mean by martial art?

Bruce Lee: Right. martial art includes all the combative arts like Karate...

Pierre: Judo.

Bruce Lee: ...or Karate, Judo (agrees), Chinese Gung-fu, or Chinese boxing, whatever you call it. All those, you see, like, Aikido, Korean Karate, and on and on and on. But it's a combative form of fighting. I mean some of them became sport, but some of them art still not. I mean some of them use, for intense, kicking to the groin, jabbing fingers to the eyes, things like that.

Pierre: No wonder you're successful in it! The Chinese movies are full of this kind of action anyway...they needed a guy like you! (they both laugh)

Bruce Lee: Violence, man!

Pierre: So you didn't have to use a double when you moved into the motion picture role here.

Bruce Lee: No.

Pierre: You did it all yourself?

Bruce Lee: Right.

Pierre: Can you break five or six pieces of wood with your hand or foot?

Bruce Lee: I'd probably break my hand and foot! (they both laugh)

Pierre: Tell me a little bit....you set up a school in Hollywood didn't you?

Bruce Lee: Yes.

Pierre: For people like James Garner, Steve McQueen and the others.

Bruce Lee: Yes.

Pierre: Why would they want to learn Chinese martial art? Because of a movie role?

Bruce Lee: Not really. Most of them you see, to me at least, the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately man self-knowledge. Therefore, these people are coming in and asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves, or how to do somebody in, rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, what I'm saying therefore, is that they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.

Pierre: Which is acting, in a sense, isn't it?

Bruce Lee: well......

Pierre: or would be a useful tool for an actor....

Bruce Lee: It might sound too philosophical, but it's unacting acting or acting unacting....if you know...

Pierre: You've lost me!

Bruce Lee: I have huh? So what I'm saying, actually, you see, it's a combination of both. I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony. Not...if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific. If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man...no longer a human being. So it is a successful combination of both, so therefore, it's not pure naturalness, or unnaturalness. The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness.

Pierre: Yin/yang, eh?

Bruce Lee: Right man, that's it.

Pierre: One of your students, James Coburn , played in a movie called "Our Man Flint", in which he used Karate. Was that what he learned from you?

Bruce Lee: He started training with me after the film. Not...

Pierre: So he learned after he played in "Our Man Flint".

Bruce Lee: Right. Right. You see, actually, I do not teach, you know, Karate, because I do not believe in styles anymore. I mean I do not believe that there is such thing as, like, a Chinese way of fighting or a Japanese way of fighting...or whatever way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. But, basically, we only have two hands and two feet. So styles tend to, not only separate man because they have their own doctrines and the doctrine became the gospel truth that you cannot change! But, if you do not have styles, if you just say, "here I am as a human being, how can I express myself totally and completely?" ...now that way, you won't create a style because style is a crystallization. That way is a process of continuing growth.

Pierre: You talk about Chinese boxing....how does it defer, from, say, our kind of boxing? (western)

Bruce Lee: Well, first we use the foot.

Pierre: Uh-huh, that's a start.

Bruce Lee: And then we use the elbow.

Pierre: Do you use the thumb too?

Bruce Lee: You name it man, we use it!

Pierre: You use it all?

Bruce Lee: You have to, you see, because that is the expression of the human body. I mean, everything, not just the hand! When you are talking about combat, well, if it is a sport..well now your talking about something else, with regulations, and rules..but if you're talking about fighting...

Pierre: No rules.....

Bruce Lee: ...with no rules, well then, baby, you'd better train every part of your body! And when you do punch..now I'm leaning forward a little bit hoping not to hurt any camera angle..I mean you've got to put the whole hip into it, and snap it! (Lee punches twice, very quickly) and get all your energy in there and make this into a weapon.

Pierre: I don't want to tangle with you on any dark night, I'll tell you that right now! You came at me pretty fast there! What is the difference between Chinese boxing and what we see these old men doing at eight o'clock every morning on the rooftops and he parks called 'shadowboxing'. Which they're always doing?

Bruce Lee: Well, actually, you see, that is part of Chinese boxing. There are as many schools, different schools...

Pierre: Everybody here seems to be going like this (moves in a tai-chi movement) all the time.

Bruce Lee: Well, that's good. I mean, I'm very glad, I'm very glad to see that because at least somebody is caring for their own bodies, right?

Pierre: Yeah.

Bruce Lee: I mean that's a good sign. Well it's kind of a slow form of exercise which is called tai-chi-chuan...I'm speaking mandarin just now...in Cantonese, 'Kai-di-kune', and it's more of an exercise for the elderly then the young.

Pierre: Give me a demonstration; show me, can you do a little bit of it?

Bruce Lee: (begins a seated demonstration of tai chi hand movements...) I mean, have-wise, it's very slow and you push it out but all the time you are keeping the continuity going; bending, stretching, everything. You just keep it moving.

Pierre: It looks like a ballet dancer there...

Bruce Lee: It is..I mean to them the idea is "running water never grows stale". So you've got to just "keep on flowing".

Pierre: Of all your students, famous, James Garner, Steve McQueen, Lee Marvin, James Coburn, Roman Polanski, which was the best? Who adapted best to this oriental form of exercise and defense?

Bruce Lee: Well, that depends...as a fighter, Steve..Steve McQueen..now, he is good in that department because, that son of a gun has got the toughness in him....

Pierre: I see it on the screen....

Bruce Lee: I mean, he would say, "all right baby, here I am, man", you know, and he'll do it! Now James Coburn is peace-loving man....

Pierre: I met him.

Bruce Lee: Right? I mean, you've met him....

Pierre: Yeah.

Bruce Lee: I mean he's really, really nice, and super mellow, and all that...

Pierre: Yeah, he is!

Bruce Lee: You know what I mean? Now he appreciates the philosophical part of it. Therefore, his understanding of it is deeper then Steve's. So it's really hard to say, you see what I'm saying now?

Pierre: I see....

Bruce Lee: I mean it's different, depending on what you see in it...

Pierre: It's interesting, we don't in our world, and haven't since the days of the Greeks who did, combined philosophy and art with sport. But quite clearly the oriental attitude is that the three are facets of the same thing.

Bruce Lee: Man, listen to me, ok? To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself. Now it is very difficult to do. I mean it is easy for me to put on a show and be cocky and be flooded with a cocky feeling and then feel, then, like pretty cool and all that. Or I can make all kinds of phony things, you see what I mean? And be blinded by it. Or I can show you some really fancy movement, but, to express oneself honestly, not lying to oneself....and to express myself honestly, that, my friend is very hard to do. And you have to train. You have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it...it's there! When you want to move, you are moving and when you move you are determined to move. Not taking one inch, not anything less than that! If I want to punch, I'm going to do it man, and I'm going to do it! So that is the type of thing you gave to train yourself into it; to become one with it. You think....(snaps his fingers) ....it is.

Pierre: This is very un-western, this attitude. I've been talking to Bruce Lee, mainly about the Chinese martial arts which include things like Chinese boxing, Karate and Judo, which is what he taught when he was in Hollywood after he left the university of Washington, where he studied, of all things, philosophy, if you can believe that. But he did but that, perhaps you understand why the two go together from the first half of this program and you can perhaps understand how he got into films, he knew a lot of actors but I'm told that you got the job on the "Green Hornet", where you played Kato the chauffeur mainly because you were the only Chinese-looking guy who could pronounce the name of the leading character, "Britt Reid"!

Bruce Lee: I meant that as a joke of course! And it's a heck of name, man! I mean every time I said it at that time I was super-conscious! I mean, really now, that's another interesting thing, huh? Lets say if you learn to speak Chinese...

Pierre: Yeah?

Bruce Lee: It's not difficult to learn and speak the words. The hard thing, the difficult thing, is behind what is the meaning: what brought on the expression and feelings behind those words. Like, then I first arrived in the United States and I looked at a Caucasian, and I really would not know whether he was putting me on or is he really angry? Because we have different ways of reacting to it...those are the difficult things, you see?

Pierre: Of course. It's almost as if you came upon a strange race where a smile didn't mean what it does to us. In fact, a smile doesn't always mean the same, does it?

Bruce Lee: Of course, not.

Pierre: Yeah, I just thought of that. Tell me about the big break when you played in Longstreet...

Bruce Lee: Ahh, that's it.

Pierre: I must tell our audience that Bruce lee had a bit part, or a supporting role in the Longstreet series and this had an enormous effect on the audience. What was it?

Bruce Lee: Well, you see, the title of that particular episode of Longstreet is called "The Way of the Intercepting Fist". Now I think the successful ingredient in it was because I was being Bruce lee.

Pierre: Yourself.

Bruce Lee: Myself, right. And did that part, just expressed myself, like I say, "honestly expressed myself", at that time. And I, because of that, brought, you know, favorable mentioning in, like, the New York times, which says, like, "a chinaman who, incidentally, came off quite convincingly enough to earn himself a television series" and so on and so on and so forth.

Pierre: Can you remember the key lines by stirling silliphant? The key lines?

Bruce Lee: He's one of my students, you know that?

Pierre: Was he too?

Bruce Lee: yes...

Pierre: Everybody's your student! But you read, there were some key lines there that expressed your philosophy. I don't know if you remember them or not....

Bruce Lee: Oh I remember them, I said....

Pierre: Let's hear...

Bruce Lee: This is what it is, ok?

Pierre: You're talking to Longstreet played by James Franciscus...

Bruce Lee: I said, "empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow, or it can crash! Be water, my friend'...like that, you see?

Pierre: Yeah, I see, I get the idea. I get the power behind it...

Bruce Lee: Uh-huh....

Pierre: So, now, two things have happened; first there's a pretty good chance that you'll get a TV series in the states called "The Warrior", isn't it? Where you use what--the martial arts in a western setting?

Bruce Lee: Well that was the original idea. Now Paramount, you know I did Longstreet for Paramount, and Paramount wants me to be in a television series. On the other hand, Warner brothers wants me to be in another one. But both of them, I think, they want me to be in a modernized type of a thing and they think that the western idea is out! Whereas I want....

Pierre: You want to do the western!

Bruce Lee: I want to do the western because, you see, I mean, or else can you justify all of this punching and kicking and violence except in the period of the west? I mean, nowadays, I mean you don't go around on the street, kicking and punching people....(pretends to reach into his jacket for a gun) because if you do....(pulls out his imaginary gun and pulls the trigger) Pow! that's it. I mean, I don't care how "good" you are.

Pierre: Yeah, a gun, but this is true also of the Chinese dramas, which are mainly costume dramas. they're all
full of blood and gore over here!

Bruce Lee: Oh you mean here?

Pierre: Yeah.

Bruce Lee: Well, unfortunately, that's often the case. You see, I hope that the picture I am in would either explain why the violence was done...whether right or wrong, or what not...but, unfortunately, pictures, most of them here, are done mainly just for the sake of violence. You know what I mean? Like, you know, guys fighting for 30 minutes straight, getting stabbed 50 times! (acts like he is stabbing himself and knocks his microphone off his shirt)

Pierre: Well I'm fascinated, here, let me give you your microphone back...

Bruce Lee: I am a martial artist....

Pierre: I'm fascinated that you came back to Hong Kong on the verge of success in Hollywood...and full of it..and suddenly, on the strength of one picture, you become a superstar. Everybody knows you. You have to change your phone number. You get mobbed in the streets. Now what are you going to do? Are you going to be able to live in both worlds? Are you going to be a superstar here or one in the States...or both?

Bruce Lee: Well, let me say this. First of all, the word "superstar" really turns me off...and I'll tell you why... the word "star" man, it's an illusion. It's something what the public calls you. You should look upon oneself as an actor, man. I mean you would be very pleased if somebody said (punches his fist into his open hand) "man, you are a super actor!" It is much better than, you know, superstar. therefore, i...

Pierre: Yes, but you've got to admit that you are a superstar. You're not going to....you're not going to....if you're going to give me the truth!

Bruce Lee: I am now....I am honestly saying this, okay? Yes, I have been very successful, okay?

Pierre: Yeah....

Bruce Lee: But I think the word "star" is....I mean I do not look upon myself as a star. I really don't. I mean believe me, man, when I say it. I mean I'm not saying it because....

Pierre: What are you going to do? Let's get back to the question.

Bruce Lee: (laughs) Ok.

Pierre: Are you going to stay in Hong Kong and be famous, or are you going to go to the United States and be famous, or are you going to try to eat your cake and have it too?

Bruce Lee: I am going to do both because, you see, I have already made up my mind that, in the United States, I think something about the oriental, I mean the true oriental, should be shown.

Pierre: Hollywood sure as heck hasn't!

Bruce Lee: You better believe it man. I mean it's always that pigtail, bouncing around, "chop-chop", you know? With the eyes slanted and all that. And I think that's very, very out of date.

Pierre: Is it true that the first job you had was being cast as Charlie Chan's "number one son?"

Bruce Lee: Yeah, "number one son". (they both laugh)

Pierre: They never made the movie?

Bruce Lee: No, they were going to make it into a new Chinese James bond type of a thing. Now that, you know, "the old man Chan is dead, Charlie is dead, and his son is carrying on".

Pierre: Oh I see. but they didn't do that.

Bruce Lee: No, Batman came along you see. And then everything started to go into that kind of a thing.

Pierre: Like the Green Hornet?

Bruce Lee: Yeah.

Pierre: Which you were in...

Bruce Lee: By the way, I did a really terrible job in that, I have to say.

Pierre: Really? You didn't like yourself in that?

Bruce Lee: Oh, no.

Pierre: I didn't see it. Let me ask you, however, about the problems that you face as a Chinese hero in an American series. Have people come up in the industry and said, "well we don't know how the audience are going to take a non-American"?

Bruce Lee: Well, such a question has been raised. in fact, it is being discussed and that is probably why the warrior is not going to be on.

Pierre: I see.

Bruce Lee: You see? Because, unfortunately, such a thing does exist in this world, you see. Like, I don't know, in a certain part of the country, right? Where they think that, business wise, it's a risk. And I don't blame them..I don't blame them. I mean, in the same way, it's like in Hong Kong, if a foreigner came and became a star, if I were the man with the money, I probably would have my own worry of whether or not the acceptance would be there. But that's all right because, if you honestly express yourself, it doesn't matter, see? Because you're going to do it!

Pierre: How about the other side of the coin? is it possible that you, I mean you're fairly hip, and fairly Americanized, are you too western for our oriental audiences do you think?

Bruce Lee: I..oh man!..Like how....I have been criticized for that!

Pierre: You have, eh?

Bruce Lee: Oh, definitely. Let me say this: when I do the Chinese film I'll try my best not to be as.....American as, you know, I have been adjusted to for the last 12 years in the States. But when I go back to the States, it seems to be the other way around, you know what I mean?

Pierre: You're too exotic, eh?

Bruce Lee: Yeah, man. I mean they're trying to get me to do too many things that are really for the sake of being exotic. You understand what I'm trying to say?

Pierre: Oh sure.

Bruce Lee: So, it's really, I mean....

Pierre: When you live in both worlds, it brings its problems as well as its advantages, and you've got them both. Let me ask you whether the change in attitude on the part of the Nixon administration towards China has helped your chances of starring in an American TV series?

Bruce Lee: (laughs) well, first of all, this happened before that. But I don't think that things of Chinese will be quite interesting for the next few years...I mean not that I'm politically inclining toward anything, you know, but...

Pierre: I understand that, but I was just wondering....

Bruce Lee: But I mean once the opening of China happens, you know, I mean that it will bring more understanding! More things that are, hey, like different, you know? And maybe in the contrast of comparison some new thing might grow. So, therefore, I mean it's a very rich period to be in. I mean like, if I were born, let's say 40 years ago and if I thought in my mind and said, "boy, I'm going to star in a television series in America", well...that might be a vague dream. But I think, right now, it may be, man.

Pierre: Do you still think of yourself as Chinese or do you ever think of yourself as a north American?

Bruce Lee: You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. because, I mean I don't wan to sound like ask Confucius, sayyyyyy...(joking) but under the sky, under the heaven, man, there is but one family. Iit just so happens that people are different.

Pierre: Ok, we've got to go...thank you Bruce lee for coming here, and thank you for watching...

Bruce Lee: Thank you, Pierre, thank you.