Self-control
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Warrior’s tortoise strategy
“Utterly destroying the Monkey. Grooming and religiously tending the Tortoise, is the way of the warrior.Living inside everyone is a Monkey and a Tortoise.The Monkey is a victim of ignorance and greed, ever willing to sacrifice the whole for the sake of the part.The tortoise on the other hand is adept at survival with impeccable… Continue reading
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Warrior’s glorious death
“Courage and willingness to embrace being struck by lightening and thunderstorms of BETRAYAL.To accept without resentment, the CROSS of humiliation.To meet DEATH with minimal hesitation, but maximum exilaration, to DIE.To RESURRECT and gloriously ASCEND.To relentlessly repeat this process is the EASTERIAN Code by which the Warrior must live”… Continue reading
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(some of the)Warrior’s battle principles
Never engaging an opponent who is in fear, in possession of an inferior weapon or skill.Being the epitome of valorous pride, the Warrior divine never attacks an opponent who is drunk, asleep, unarmed or most important of all, an opponent who’s back is turned… “ Continue reading
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Warrior’s focus
“keeping eyes on the sparrow as the road gets narrow. Deploying the concentration and swiftness of a Hawk.For the Hawk watches the brood of chicken from distance, select one of them to pick, maintaining its focus only on that one, go after only the one, even as the brood of chicken run hither and thither.… Continue reading
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TAT TVAM ASI (LIKE UNTO YOU I AM)
Beyond the wakeful state Where you sometimes feel irate Pass the body resting asleep state But the mind still intensely berate Beyond the streaming dreaming state Where chaos muddled time and date Past the sweetly serene deep sleep state Where all mental, sensory, bodily agitation abate That state where calibrated time exist conspicuously by its… Continue reading
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