“Knowledge and understanding are not the same thing. Knowledge is built on the experience of the past; understanding is built on the experience of the present. Anyone who simply identifies with Bruce Lee or a system called ‘Jeet Kune Do’ has become trapped. But to be inspired to experience and understand, for oneself, what Bruce Lee understood is what he intended.
Jesus Christ, another teacher whose insights have given way to various dogmatic and fundamentalist followings, expressed the same truth when he said: ‘Follow me and you will lose yourself; but follow yourself and you will find both yourself, and me.’ Organised dogmatic religion betrays its original visionary. Any any martial artist who clings to his teacher’s words denies his own possibility of understanding.”
Some Words Left Behind 