I have been looking around and taking in some of the conversations on other forums, and listening to other people talk about "stuff". Rolling it all around in the palate of my brainpan and wondering some things...and coming to some conclusions for myself.
Warriorship is not about war against others, its about war against untrue ideas of self and of the world around us. While some "warriors" appear to be cranky and judgmental, others seem blissed out and full of peace love and cheeze whiz. I trust the former rather than the latter. Why you may wonder? Because it has recently occurred to me that peace love and cheeze whiz (PLC) is easy. Its not just easy its a trap. Wha Wha Wha??? isnt that the point? That we all just get along? I think not. There are no hard truths in PLC. There is rest in PLC...there is fuzzy warm complacency in PLC...but very rarely the kind of clarity and forward movement as a smack upside the head with some cold hard reality. Not comfortable, not "kind", not even pretty sometimes. Yet, how else can we find our way? Being uncomfortable causes one to ask some questions...the more uncomfortable the more complex and insightful the questions. The answers to those questions are what brings enlightenment imho.
Warriorship is another level. Being able to "take" the criticism, the truth that others see, ask the hard questions of self. Am I really this? Or am I really that? These are hard hard questions to face, because it upsets our PLC applecart, often in very very sharp and uncomfortable ways. This is what I call the slicing away of detritus...when it hurts ur getting to the real issues that keep the real self from the real self.
This whole thing is not about changing anyone elses world. Its about "seeing" YOUR total nature, YOUR totality of self. You alone are the honored one.
I never really understood what that meant till recently...never really grasped what that means. I alone am the honored one...If my discovery of who I am helps another...sweet. If not, equally as sweet...we alone are the honored ones...so honored.