What is a WARRIOR?

According to Webster’s Dictionary a warrior is –

: a person engaged or experienced in warfare
: a person engaged in some struggle or conflict

So, a warrior is someone who continuously engages in, and is therefore experienced in, struggle or conflict. Why do we struggle and live lives filled with conflict? We do so because we resist the natural flow of our intentions from which everything we experience is birthed. We resist because we are so focused on the material realm that we usually are not even in touch with the undercurrent from which everything in our material reality is informed. We believe our physical reality, our bodies and environment, to be our whole existence, when in fact, it is merely a representation of the current perceptual lens from which we perceive ourselves. Because in the physical we only exist in comparison to everything else (our coordinates in space and time), we take great satisfaction from seeing ourselves in our environment and we go to extraordinary lengths to control and manipulate it into our own image. This is how we become caught in our reality and are unwilling to let it evolve as it should, to flow like water and take on another form which we can recognize as a less limited version ourselves.

The more we try and assert control over our environment, the more the environment reflects back to us the struggle which we create.

The more you see struggle in others and within yourself, the more aware you are.  Why?  Because you are putting attention on the very signposts which will lead you to discover what you are holding onto which does not allow you to move and shift into ever emerging configurations and expressions of who you are. The more you overcome those struggles, the more you express your true nature into the world.

As a warrior, you see the struggles but you don’t focus on them, because you know that you will get lost if you do. A warrior focuses her attention on where the signpost is leading her and then she moves to engage the conflict so that it surrenders to her, and so she can then surrender to herself. Once the warrior has done this, she will gain clarity of the purpose which the signpost was leading her to.  This will evoke a greater will within her heart. The more the warrior engages in struggle, defuses the conflict and then surrenders to it, the greater her will grows. The more she moves her will to take action to find herself beyond her identifications, the more she becomes aware of her unlimited nature.

So, the warrior battles for freedom, the freedom to rediscover herself and fall in love with a less limited version of who she is.  The warrior is always connected with her purpose. She never, not even for a moment, forgets her purpose, as that is what focuses her will. Without a razor sharp will, the warrior will get lost in the fog of illusion. The warrior will become surrounded by the fog and will need to start justifying her actions. This will make her ineffective, as she will need to contemplate every action rather than be led by her purpose and allow her will to be its sword. The warrior can find her way back however if she stops contemplating and reaches within. When she reaches within, there is no fog, only space; space in which she can travel the universe and seek herself, but first she must stop contemplating, because it is the contemplation which keeps her believing she is in the fog, when in fact she never left her purpose.

This is when the warrior is reborn, rising from the fog with the focus of hawk, ready to engage in battle again and again.  With each blow of her will, with each awareness waiting for her behind the conflict, with each surrender of her perceived control, she finds herself and is born anew, more whole, more compassionate, more free, more human than the last battle.

We are all warriors. Honor your life as a warrior; don’t turn from the struggle.  If you are lost in the fog, look within and you will find the truth; you are a warrior armed with a deep purpose and a razor sharp will which will lead you to your unlimited nature.