THE SPIRIT OF A WARRIOR

During the last few years I have spent an enormous amount of time watching people and how we live. Paying special attention to what we allow to effect us and how those effects guide the paths that our lives take. It is absolutely amazing the things that we allow to guide and shape our lives. It is no wonder that a large majority of society turns to addictions to consume their energy and divert their attention away from things that there seems to be no answers for anyway.

I think that most of our problems lie in backwards thinking. Saying one thing and doing another. I think that this stems from a society epidemic of not wanting to accept responsibility for ourselves. It's like life's so much unlike what we want, we need to blame someone, anyone. If we would accept responsibility for everything in our lives we could direct it's unfolding. Society seems bent on training us to blame others, then we don't need to feel bad or responsible for the pathetic states that we create in our lives. A friend once said to me; "Apprentice, people need "God" they need some one who is responsible so that they can give in to the belief we are weak and sinful creatures, and not have to take responsibility for the state of their lives." If we are weak and sinful then we have an escape. Although a very expensive escape in that, that escape also steals away our freedom. and makes us a slave. A belief that limits us to be the weak and pathetic. This is not limited to beliefs in Gods, but encompasses anything that takes control away from us. It could be drugs, money, sex, career, family, or any external source that we allow to control our lives. Anything that controls us, only controls us, because we give it power by believing that it and not ourselves are in control. This power is granted by us to the external influence by our beliefs, and that is the source that needs to be redirected if we are to take power and control of the direction of our lives.

My endeavors to understand why we as humans live and accept to live, so much below what were capable of has brought me to a a place of understanding our dilemma. Through careful experimentation with my self, I have found some wonderful information on the "cause" and the "cure" of this state. This information has been traced back to the beginning of awareness. The freedom and joy that is available in living this information is completely beyond anything that I could have thought up. It has truly sent me into the unknown, I function in the real world, I go for coffee and pay the phone bill like everyone else, now I have learned to enjoy those things, and everything else in my life as well. Even the "bad"shit. To experience every moment differently and to appreciate it all. So this stuff that I have written down here is the stuff I learned. It is called The Warriors Way. It's called the Warriors Way because it is a battle with ourselves to break out of these silly limitations we live in and truly reach the potential were capable of. It's like we see things from this human level right now, but there is another level to view this world from the universal level.

Below you will find quotes from various sources that I feel lend to the warriors spirit and help to start the re-programing necessary to take back control of our lives.

Then so be it,'answered the seven. the enthroned three. so all the sons of the earth go forth to do battle.

The basic difference between a normal man and a warrior is: A warrior sees everything as a challenge.The normal man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse. Life... life is like a play. It,s not it's length, But the performance that counts.My powerful idea is absolutely fascinating and absolutely useless until we use it.The mistake of man is that he always seeks explanation which uphold his way of thinking, his view of the world.

When a man decides to do something he must go all the way. He must take responsibility for what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them

Think of your death now!It is at arms length. It may tap you at any moment, so you really have no time for crappie thoughts and moods. None of us have time for that.

Look at me. I have no doubts or remorse. Everything I do is my decision and my responsibility. The simplest thing I do, may very well mean my death. Death is stalking me. Therefore I have no room for doubts or remorse. If I have to die as a result of taking you for a walk then I must die. You, on the other hand feel that you are immortal and the decisions of an immortal man can be canceled or regretted or doubted. In a world where death is a hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

The only thing you never did was to shine your spirit. You have been complaining all your life because you don't assume responsibility for your decisions. If you would have assumed responsibility for your fathers idea of swimming at six in the morning you would have swum, by yourself if necessary, or you would have told him to go to hell the first time he opened his mouth after you new his devices. But you didn't say anything. therefore you were as weak as your father.

To assume responsibility for ones decisions is to be ready to die for them. It doesn't matter what the decision is. Nothing could be more or less serious than anything else. Don't you see in a world where death is a hunter there are no small or big decisions. There are only decisions we make in light of our inevitable death.

In order to be a hunter one must be in perfect balance with everything else, otherwise hunting would become a meaningless chore For instance today we took a little snake. I had to apologize for cutting her life off so suddenly and definitely. I did what I did knowing that my own life will be cut off one day in very much the same fashion, suddenly and definitely. So all in all, we and the snakes are on par. One of them fed us today.


Hunters are very tight individuals. A hunter leaves very little to chance.We are not equals I am a hunter and a warrior and you are a pimp. He said that I was pimping for someone else. That I was not even fighting my own battles, but the battles of some unknown people. That I did not want to learn about anything. That his world of precise acts and feelings and decisions was infinitely more effective than the blundering idiocy I called "My Life".

I laugh a great deal because I like to laugh, yet everything I say is deadly serious, even if you don't understand it. Why should the world be only as you think it is? Who gave you authority to say so?

You must become deliberately available and unavailable. This did not mean to hide or be secretive but to be inaccessible. Being inaccessible is the point, you lost her because you were accessible, you were always within her reach and your life was a routine one. The art of a hunter is to become inaccessible. in the case of the blond girl it would have meant that you would have become a hunter and meet her sparingly. Not the way you did. You stayed with her day after day, until the only feeling that remained was boredom. To be inaccessible means that you touch the world around you sparingly. you don't eat five quail you eat one. You don't damage the plants just to make a barbecue pit. You don't expose yourself to the power of the wind unless it is mandatory. You don't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing,especially the people you love.

I've already told you that to be inaccessible does not mean to hide or be secretive. It doesn't mean that you cannot deal with people either. A hunter use his world sparingly and with tenderness, regardless of whether the world might be things, or plants, or animals, or people, or power. A hunter deals intimately with his world and yet he is inaccessible to that same world. The warrior is inaccessible because he is not squeezing his world out of shape .He taps lightly, stays for as long as he needs to, and then swiftly moves away leaving hardly a mark.

This is a time when you should cut off your feelings of importance. A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the routine of his prey, but because he himself has know routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks. He is free, fluid, unpredictable.

You always feel compelled to explain your acts, as if you were the only man on earth who's wrong. It's your old feelings of self importance. you have to much of it; you also have to much personal history. On the other hand you don't assume responsibility for your acts; your not using your death as your personal adviser, and above all your to accessible. In other words your life is as messy as before I met you.

One must assume responsibility for being in a weird world. Were in a weird world you know. I nodded my head affirmatively. We're not talking the same thing. For you the world is weird because if your not bored with it your at odds with it. For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must take responsibility for being here in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I wanted to convince you that you must make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while in fact too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

USE IT. Focus your attention on the link between you and your death. without remorse, or sadness, or worrying. Focus your your attention on the fact that you don't have time and let your acts flow accordingly. Let each of your acts be your last battle on earth. Only under those conditions will your acts have there rightful power. Otherwise they will be, for as long as you live the acts of a timid man." is it so terrible to be a timid man?".... No It isn't if your going to be immortal, but if you are going to die there is no time for timidity, simply because timidity makes you cling to something that exists only in your thoughts. It soothes you while your at a lull, but then the awesome mysterious world will open it's mouth for you, as it will open for every one of us, and then you will realize that your sure ways were not so sure at all. Being timid prevents us from examining and exploiting our lot as men.

DEATH IS JUST A TRANSITION

Our death is waiting and this very act could well be our last battle on earth. he replied in a solemn voice. I call it a battle because it is a struggle. Most people move from act to act without any struggle or thought. A hunter, on the contrary,assesses every act; and since he has an intimate knowledge of his death,he proceeds judiciously, as if every act were his last battle. Only a fool would fail to notice the advantage a hunter has over his fellow men. A hunter gives his last battle its due respect. It's only natural that his last battle on earth should be the best of himself. It's pleasurable that way. It dulls the edge of his fright.

I've told you this is a weird world, The forces that guide men are unpredictable, awesome, yet their splendor is something to witness.

No That is not a worry for a warrior it's only a worry for you because you have no power. A warrior on the other hand, is guided by his unbending purpose and can fend off anything.

What can I do? I asked. NO! NO! That is not a good question don't ask what can you do, you can do nothing. Ask what would a warrior do?

He said, I was a man and like any man I deserved everything that was mans lot- joy, pain, sadness,struggle- and that the nature of ones act's was unimportant as long as one acted as a warrior. Lowering his voice to almost a whisper, he said that if I really felt that my spirit was distorted I should simply fix it- purge it make it perfect- because there was no other task in our entire lives that was more worth while. Not to fix the spirit was to seek death, and that was the same as seeking nothing, since death was going to overtake us regardless of anything.

To seek perfection of the warriors spirit is the only task worthy of our manhood.

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood, of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so, believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior. You are here with me because you want to be here. You should have assumed responsibility by now, so the idea that you are at the mercy of the wind would be inadmissible. Self pity doesn't jibe with power. The mood of a warrior calls for control over himself and at the same time it calls for abandoning himself.

One needs the mood of a warrior for every single act, Otherwise one becomes distorted and ugly.there is no power in a life that lacks this mood. Look at yourself everything offends you and upsets you. You whine and complain and feel that everyone is making you dance to their tune. You are a leaf at the mercy of the wind.There is no power in your life. What an ugly feeling that must be! A warrior on the other hand is a hunter he calculates everything. that's control.but once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him;no one can make him do things against his better judgment, A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

Everything you do must be done within the proper mood. You need to be controlled and at the same time abandoned. You must learn to think, That is control. Then you must learn to act, that is abandoned. You must not get paralyzed with fear and act, with a degree of abandon. At the same time focusing yourself with a degree of control. You have to hold on to yourself and let go of yourself at the same time. That's what I call the mood of a warrior.

I wanted to show you that you can spur yourself beyond your limits if you are in the proper mood a warrior makes his own mood. Fear can get you into the mood of a warrior,but once you know about it anything can serve to issue it.

it's convenient to always act in such a mood it cuts through the crap and leaves one purified.

For a warrior there is nothing offensive about the acts of his fellow man as long as he himself is acting within the proper mood.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. to regard everything as equals is a magnificent act of the warriors spirit. It takes power to do that.

I kiddingly asked how old he really was. I'm as young as I want to be. He said. This is again a matter of personal power. If you store power your body can perform unbelievable feats. On the other hand, if you dissipate power you'll be a fat old man in no time at all.

Power was a very weird affair. In order to have it and command it one must have power to begin with. It's possible to store it little by little, until one has enough to sustain oneself in a battle for power.

Death is always waiting,and when a warriors power wanes death simply tapes him. Thus to venture into the unknown without any power is stupid. One will only find death.

The world is a mystery.This what your looking at, is not all there is to it. There is so much more to the world, so much more, in fact, that it is endless.

A warrior never turns his back to power without atoning for the favors received.

There is something you ought to be aware of by now, I call it the cubic centimeter of chance.All of us, whether we are warriors or not, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between the average man and the warrior is, a warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess to pick it up.

Chance, good luck, personal power, or whatever you may call it, is a peculiar set of affairs. It is like a very small stick that comes out in front of us and invites us top luck it. Usually we are to busy to preoccupied , or just too stupid and lazy to realize that that is our cubic centimeter of luck. A warrior, on the other hand is always alert and tight and has the spring and the gumption necessary to grab it.

What matters is that a warrior be impeccable.

I will say that what matters to a warrior is arriving at the totality of oneself.

we're not going to engage ourselves in dwelling on any experience of that nature, It is not advisable for you to indulge in focusing your attention on past events. We may touch on them, but only in reference.

the self confidence of a warrior is not the self confidence of the average man. the average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self confidence.The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.the average man is hooked to his fellow men. while the warrior is hooked only to himself. Perhaps you are chasing rainbows. You're after the self-confidence of the average man . When you should be after the humbleness of a warrior. The difference between the two is remarkable. Self-confidence entails knowing something for sure; humbleness entails being impeccable in ones actions and feelings.

If one is to succeed in anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort, but no stress or obsession.

I've told you that the internal dialog is what grounds us. The world is such and such, or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about it's being such and such,or so and so.

A warrior takes his lot,whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

I know now the humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of a beggar. The warrior lowers his head to know one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar on the other hand falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor for anyone he deems higher; But at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.

I know only the humbleness of a warrior and that will never permit me to be anyone's master

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