A True Warrior

I have no parents:
I make the heavens and earth my parents.
I have no home:
I make awareness my home.
I have no life or death:
I make the tides of breathing my life and death.
I have no divine power:
I make honesty my divine power.
I have no means:
I make understanding my means.
I have no magic secrets:
I make character my magic secret.
I have no body:
I make endurance my body.
I have no eyes:
I make the flash of lighting my eyes.
I have no ears:
I make sensibility my ears.
I have no limbs:
I make promptness my limbs.
I have no strategy:
I make "unshadowed by thought" my strategy.
I have no designs:
I make "seizing opportunity by the forelock" my design.
I have no miracles:
I make right action my miracles.
I have no principles:
I make adaptability to all circumstances my principle.
I have no tactics:
I make emptiness and fullness my tactics.
I have no talents:
I make ready wit my talent.
I have no friends:
I make my mind my friend.
I have no enemy:
I make carelessness my enemy.
I have no armor:
I make benevolence and righteousness my armor.
I have no castle:
I make immovable mind my castle.
I have no sword:
I make absense of self my sword.

-Anonymous Samurai, Fourteenth Century

I wish I could just take all the hurt and suffering of those I love upon myself and myself alone, swallow it whole, and, if necessary, burn to the bone.

Or take it to war and release it upon a true enemy in such measures of vengeance as they have never yet seen, nor thereafter, will ever have the need or opportunity to suffer again.

My real life sister has joined Xanga.  Now we're all in for a treat?

I'll announce her site when she's ready for me to!  lol

I expect most of my readership to eventually switch over to her. Cause I've only just always been a prophet screaming madly in a desert.  But now a new voice of transcendental wisdom and abounding beauty is soon here abouts (details soon) to birth...

   "...when faces called flowers float out of the ground"