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Jan. 17, 2020

Understated Persistence

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LOS ANGELES — When people ask Cesar Sarmiento, “What’s your mediation style?” he often thinks of actor and martial artist Bruce Lee.

“Whenever anybody asks me, I just remember that Bruce Lee movie, Enter the Dragon,” Sarmiento said, when an opponent asks the hero, “‘What’s your style?’”

When Lee’s character was asked this question in the 1973 film, he was on a crowded boat, calmly respo... (continued)

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