Meditation Of A Spiritual Warrior

This is a wonderful 14th Century Samurai Warrior meditation. The author is unknown, but it is a timeless jewel of wisdom that can inspire you to discover the Spiritual Warrior inside of you.

I have no parents:
I make the heaven and earth my parents.

I have no home:
I make awareness my home.

I have no life and death:
I make the tides of breathing my life and death.

I have no divine powers:
I make honesty my divine power.

I have no means:
I make understanding my means.

I have no secrets:
I make character my secret.

I have no body:
I make endurance my body.

I have no strategy:
I make "unshadowed by thought" my strategy.

I have no design:
I make "seizing opportunity by the forelock" my design.

I have no miracles:
I make right action my miracle.

I have no principles:
I make adaptability to all circumstances my principle.

I have no tactics:
I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.

I have no talent:
I make ready wit my talent.

I have no friends:
I make my mind my friend.

I have no enemy:
I make carelessness my enemy.

I have no armor:
I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.

I have no castle:
I make immovable mind my castle.

I have no sword:
I make absence of self my sword.

The idea of the spiritual warrior is one much prone to misunderstanding, especially for those who like shaolin monk kung fu movies!It is though a principle that I feel quite strongly, because my own experience of spiritual evolution is that it takes a great deal of courage.

When we choose meditation, not as a form of stress management, emotional management manifesting technique, or any one of the numerous other applications that use the term these days, but as a means to sit with the darkness, fear and rage within in us, it takes a warriors courage to keep returning to that place and meditate as a means of transforming these illusions of separation.

 

 

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