Be+Water

Be Water My Friend Red Book Unit 2 Be Water 

//“Be like water making its way through cracks. // //Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, //

//and you shall find a way around or through it. //

//If nothing within you stays rigid, //

// Empty your mind, be formless. // //Shapeless, like water. // //If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. //

//You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. //

//Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” // //-Bruce Lee //

The water looks _ for swimming.

The waves are _ when there is wind.

The water probably feels _ and _.

What do you think it means to "be water"?

<span style="color: #2c84ad; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 40px; text-align: center;">What does it mean that the water becomes the cup?

<span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">Bruce Lee is explaining an important concept of Taoism: if you resist life, it will crash you. Life is bigger than you, but if you flow with life you will find a way through it. You will go over the obstacles, like a river flows through hills and mountains.

<span style="color: #2c84ad; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: center;">**VOCABULARY** <span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//**Be**// - tells people how to act <span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//**My Friend**// - shows he cares about the people who read this <span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">//**Be Water**//, //**My Friend**// - he explains the wisdom he learned from watching water

<span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**EMPTY YOUR MIND** = Stop thinking.

<span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">The suffix –<span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**LESS** means “without” and is used to make adjectives: <span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">noun + -less = adjective. <span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**-FORM**LESS = Without form (shape) <span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">-<span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**heart**less= <span style="color: #00aeff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">without a heart (feelings) <span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">-<span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**hope**less= <span style="color: #00aeff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">without hope (desperate) <span style="color: #2c84ad; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;">**-life**less= <span style="color: #00aeff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">without life (like dead) <span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**-SHAPE**LESS = Without shape (form)

<span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**FLOW** = Move like a river, smoothly going round obstacles instead of crashing into them.

<span style="color: #00aeff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2c84ad; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**CRASH** = Collide, bump. To break violently or noisily; smash.