PEACE: The True Way of the Warrior - Part One

Greetings fellow Lightworkers and Lightwarriors! I Am Akaeus.

I would like to take a moment of your time to explain somethings which most people may not know or fully understand about what it is to be a warrior in the true sense. This will be an ongoing theme which I will try to expand and give new light upon this subject. Some posts may be longer or shorter than others, depending on the specific subject matter, and i will try to update this on a monthly basis if I at all possible. With that said I will begin by explaing the core of what I believe it means to be a warrior.

The word warrior has been tagged with alot of stigma for many years, in fact hundreds of years, since the inception of mankind and warfare on Earth. Many people believe that a warrior is a violent, maybe slightly noble, way of being. This is only the smallest part of what it means to walk this path. To be able to really grasp this way of life, one must understand one thing above all others: the TRUE way of the warrior is PEACE.

For a lot of people this is a hard concept to wrap thier heads around, and it may even seem skewed or contradicting comapred to what they think a warrior is. To vaguely explain this ideal, one can take an example from the Jedi Knights of the Star Wars films. Though at first you may think it is odd to bring up this example, you will find this comparison is one of the simplest ways to begin to comprehend what I'm trying to say.

The Jedi are a sect of 'warriors' with special powers given to them by the all powerful 'Force'. Like warriors of today they are taught many aspects of this way of life, some of them include: comabt, tactics, balance of passion and reason, control of thier emotions and thoughts etc. Thier Jedi Code forbids them to use attack, or offense and only allows the use of defence when in a confrontation of any sort. Thier mandate as a whole is to keep the peace, mediate disputes between factions, and defend the innocent from harm. This is but a small example of what it is to be a warrior.

Another example of peace being the path that a warrior should tread upon is the legend of Masamune and Muramasa. The legend tells of a test where Muramasa challenged his master, Masamune, to see who could make a finer sword. They both worked tirelessly and eventually, when both swords were finished, they decided to test the results. The contest was for each to suspend the blades in a small creek with the cutting edge facing the current.

Muramasa's sword, the Juuchi Fuyu (10,000 Winters) cut everything that passed its way; fish, leaves floating down the river, the very air which blew on it. Highly impressed with his pupil's work, Masamune lowered his sword, the Yawaraka-Te (Tender Hands), into the current and waited patiently. Not a leaf was cut, the fish swam right up to it, and the air hissed as it gently blew by the blade.

After a while, Muramasa began to scoff at his master for his apparent lack of skill in the making of his sword. Smiling to himself, Masamune pulled up his sword, dried it, and sheathed it. All the while, Muramasa was heckling him for his sword's inability to cut anything. A monk, who had been watching the whole ordeal, walked over and bowed low to the two sword masters. He then began to explain what he had seen. "The first of the swords was by all accounts a fine sword, however it is a blood thirsty, evil blade as it doesn't discriminate as to who or what it will cut. It may just as well be cutting down butterflies as severing heads. The second was by far the finer of the two, as it doesn't needlessly cut that which is innocent and undeserving."
(text of the legend taken from Wikipedia)

I think that this legend can be inerpreted in one plain sentence: You have to know when to use your brains and when to use your brawn. The opposite of this can blantantly seen in modern warefare today, where force is used all too often when diplomacy can still be of great consequence to a long-term, peacefull solution. This is mainly where the mainstream view falls short of the big idea.

Which brings me to the main points of this post. I believe that violence should not be used 99.99% of the time, in fact I don't even like to fight when there is a true conflict unless there is great, and I mean GREAT, reason to do so. As I see it, the only reason to ever consider combat, of any sort, is when you are faced with the situation of defending others (physically, mentally, verbally) and even more rarely: yourself, if it ever comes down to your survival on any fundamental level.

Many warriors today, excluding the modern day soldier, believe that to kill the 'enemy' is the lowest priority when faced with conflict. The highest priority should be to find a peacefull solution for the good of all involved, and the next consideration if all else fails would be to injure, incapacitate, and most of all nullify the 'enemys' ability to fight. When you take away the 'enemys' ability to fight, you open the doors for other, more irenic outcomes.

There will be more to come, in time. But for now I will let you cook your noodle on this a little bit.

~ Akaeus ~