The quest for knowledge is a curious affair. We have to go through strange maneuvers discover the core of ourselves. To draw from the somethings inside us, the hidden resources, unsuspected guts and cunning, the nobility of the spirit in the face of sorrow or pain, that can surface when we are confronted by the unknown when we are alone, and without friends. without the familiar boundaries, without support. if nothing comes out of us under those circumstances, it's because we have nothing. Enter into the warriors world with the mood of a warrior!
The mood of a warrior is that of abandonment. Don't just go for seemingly orderly arrangements of thought and deed . For a warrior, order is different from arranging things neatly. We don't give a damn about stupidity and have no patience. that's the mood!! We must not always persist in asking for details guided only by our bad habits of having everything spelled out. Listen for the voice of power, go into the aloneness find out what your strengths and weaknesses are. Instead of instructions on what to do, take instruction on how to arrange your thoughts, feelings, and reactions, with that in hand you'll take care of any eventuality that might arise.
The first detailed item to consider is taking stock of your self, you see in the warriors world, we must be responsible for our actions.
In the warriors path people remove the burden of self importance, because importance waters down fierceness.
In the warriors path people are fierce. They remain fiercely impassive under any conditions. They don't demand anything yet they are willing to give anything of themselves. They fiercely seek a signal from the spirit of things in the form of a kind word, an appropriate gesture; and when they get it they return their thanks by redoubling their fierceness.
In the warriors path people don't judge. They fiercely reduce themselves to nothing in order to listen, to watch so they can conquer and be humbled by their conquest or be defeated and be enhanced by their defeat .
In the warriors path people don't surrender. They may be defeated a thousand times, but they never surrender.
Above all:
In the warriors path people are free.
I'm not your teacher; I'm not your mentor; I'm not responsible for you. no one, but yourself is. The hardest thing to grasp about the warriors world is that it offers total freedom but freedom is not free.
It takes years for average persons to remove themselves from their involvement with themselves and be capable of seeing the wonder of it all.
Take warning anyone who chooses the warriors world has to be prepared for fierce aloneness. Let it be made clear, aloneness does not mean loneliness but a physical state of solitude.
Learn to feel your way through situations, and adjust your actions to your inner voice. To gain access to the inner voice you will have to learn to shut off the inner dialog, the endless chatter of our minds. This can be accomplished only by training and endless practice.
While traveling down the warriors path, don't worry about details. Details tend to adjust themselves to serve the circumstances if one has conviction. Your plans should be as follows. Pick anything as a beginning, then go and face that beginning. Once you are face to face with the beginning, let it take you where ever it may. Trust that your convictions won't let you pick a capricious beginning. Be realistic and frugal, select wisely.
Do it now!! ANYTHING WILL DO FOR A START!!
Be sensitive to the spirit, be alert, the spirit tends to move in subtle ways.