I have been fortunate to find a warrior teacher who is also much like a brother.
He is a true modern day shaman and has aided me in the trial of facing myself through unraveling my burden of potential I have carried.
His accurate assessment began with the simple advice to " be who you are.
" As there is nothing more pressing and disconcerting to me than what could be and has yet to become resulting from the simple avoidance of application.
I have also discovered in this that there is conversely nothing so inspiring to witness than what awaits us within the fruition of these possibilities.
In discussing this philosophy of the warrior, a title which is often casually and equally precisely affixed with great depth and purpose someone recently asked me, " what is a warrior, how is someone a warrior if they have not gone into battle? How did you arrive at the realizations you have reached and what have you and your teacher been at war with on this path? " My response was that a warrior is someone who has culminated themselves to being in a warlike state and applies the elements of that knowing evoked from this state to their lives in all dimensions.
Knowing they are here by chance and acting as if this opportunity were a gift treasuring their brief experience of life and all which it encompasses.
A warrior is at war with the idea of the self that fostered notion of separation.
A sentiment which so often divides and limits through applying classificatory schemes and binding descriptions cast by the sense of finality instilled by the socialized perspective establishing the illusion of disconnectedness.
The warrior is only a warrior and yet in this simplification they are embracing a grand complexity.
The path they walk is to embrace the challenges which threaten to limit and define them as they return to a state of unformed immeasurability.
A warrior is reduced to nothing and thus they are available to everything in this becoming of emptiness.
Contradictorily they find they are unavailable to anything which would occupy and compromise this formless state.
A warrior sees from their heart knowing that to walk their path with integrity and learn from their travels exerting unerring effort is all that matters.
For a warrior living in accordance with their death and seeing from their heart is simultaneously aware that while the journey constantly appears to be ending, it has also always only just begun.
Arriving at this knowing a warrior takes action prepared for their inevitability, whatever that may be in relation to their circumstances.
While conscious of their impending departure, they see from this view of immediate expiration and are prepared for all that life has to offer, as such a challenging gift.
The warrior finds solace in this state feeling peace while being at war.
For death to a warrior is only the final threshold of this life initiating the commencement of yet another journey.
A warrior exists in this condition of being already dead, so every facet of their life is lived to the fullest potential and released gently as if it never were.
So as to step forward welcoming what mysteries await beyond us and paradoxically within.
Warriors strive to transcend these boundaries and limitations of the self instilled view realizing they are undefeatable as they are actively being nothing they exist in identification with everything which surrounds them.
With detachment, the warrior discovers that nothing could possibly defeat or be defeated in this mirage of conflict.
A warrior is not concerned with winning or losing, being right or wrong.
Instead existing for experience and the wisdom harvested from this as they have transcended that competitive division by living in applied emptiness.
The warrior encounters mutual enhancement with all life as life itself is enriched by their efforts in actualizing this awareness of a greater essence occupying all forms.
This path absorbs their entirety enduring for eternity as a warrior relinquishes all enemies, concerned with prevailing over the only true opponent they have ever faced which was that vantage of the limiting self imposed.
They become an expression of a unified collective knowing intending to learn and share.
Seeking and being of knowledge a warrior yields to this blossoming.
Lujan Matus is such a man of knowing, a shaman already realized and a warrior incessantly traversing this path with the admirable will to assist in inspiring others.
He is a true modern day shaman and has aided me in the trial of facing myself through unraveling my burden of potential I have carried.
His accurate assessment began with the simple advice to " be who you are.
" As there is nothing more pressing and disconcerting to me than what could be and has yet to become resulting from the simple avoidance of application.
I have also discovered in this that there is conversely nothing so inspiring to witness than what awaits us within the fruition of these possibilities.
In discussing this philosophy of the warrior, a title which is often casually and equally precisely affixed with great depth and purpose someone recently asked me, " what is a warrior, how is someone a warrior if they have not gone into battle? How did you arrive at the realizations you have reached and what have you and your teacher been at war with on this path? " My response was that a warrior is someone who has culminated themselves to being in a warlike state and applies the elements of that knowing evoked from this state to their lives in all dimensions.
Knowing they are here by chance and acting as if this opportunity were a gift treasuring their brief experience of life and all which it encompasses.
A warrior is at war with the idea of the self that fostered notion of separation.
A sentiment which so often divides and limits through applying classificatory schemes and binding descriptions cast by the sense of finality instilled by the socialized perspective establishing the illusion of disconnectedness.
The warrior is only a warrior and yet in this simplification they are embracing a grand complexity.
The path they walk is to embrace the challenges which threaten to limit and define them as they return to a state of unformed immeasurability.
A warrior is reduced to nothing and thus they are available to everything in this becoming of emptiness.
Contradictorily they find they are unavailable to anything which would occupy and compromise this formless state.
A warrior sees from their heart knowing that to walk their path with integrity and learn from their travels exerting unerring effort is all that matters.
For a warrior living in accordance with their death and seeing from their heart is simultaneously aware that while the journey constantly appears to be ending, it has also always only just begun.
Arriving at this knowing a warrior takes action prepared for their inevitability, whatever that may be in relation to their circumstances.
While conscious of their impending departure, they see from this view of immediate expiration and are prepared for all that life has to offer, as such a challenging gift.
The warrior finds solace in this state feeling peace while being at war.
For death to a warrior is only the final threshold of this life initiating the commencement of yet another journey.
A warrior exists in this condition of being already dead, so every facet of their life is lived to the fullest potential and released gently as if it never were.
So as to step forward welcoming what mysteries await beyond us and paradoxically within.
Warriors strive to transcend these boundaries and limitations of the self instilled view realizing they are undefeatable as they are actively being nothing they exist in identification with everything which surrounds them.
With detachment, the warrior discovers that nothing could possibly defeat or be defeated in this mirage of conflict.
A warrior is not concerned with winning or losing, being right or wrong.
Instead existing for experience and the wisdom harvested from this as they have transcended that competitive division by living in applied emptiness.
The warrior encounters mutual enhancement with all life as life itself is enriched by their efforts in actualizing this awareness of a greater essence occupying all forms.
This path absorbs their entirety enduring for eternity as a warrior relinquishes all enemies, concerned with prevailing over the only true opponent they have ever faced which was that vantage of the limiting self imposed.
They become an expression of a unified collective knowing intending to learn and share.
Seeking and being of knowledge a warrior yields to this blossoming.
Lujan Matus is such a man of knowing, a shaman already realized and a warrior incessantly traversing this path with the admirable will to assist in inspiring others.
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