This book is a compilation of thoughts and ideas Bruce Lee recorded from his study and practice of Eastern philosophy and martial arts over 19 years. I bought it in the mid-1990s after several people commented on the similarity they had observed between Total Immersion and martial arts.  Here, from the book is Buddhism’s Eight Fold Path: I’ve added a TI thought after the colon in each. (Note: #2 and #4 were modified from original post, thanks to suggestions from TW .)

1. Right views (understanding): Understand yourself and how your body behaves in water. Seek to understand — not judge — what is happening . . . including your “imperfect” moments.

2. Right purpose (aspiration): Mindfulness on each stroke, in the here and now, is Right Purpose.

3. Right speech: Emphasize possibility, not limits or obstacles, in talking about your swimming.

4, Right conduct: Be considerate of – indeed cooperative and collaborative with – other swimmers. Provide good example.

5. Right vocation: Seek harmony between your work and your practice.

6. Right effort: It takes effort to become effortless, but avoid heedless struggle.

7. Right awareness: Feel and think about swimming even when not swimming.  Your muscles learn from thought as well as action.

8. Right concentration: The most important object of all practice is to improve your capacity for focus and for merging mind and body in unified action