On Warrior Meditation

Meditation by itself is an art that has been practiced by both warriors and non warriors for many years.  Simply the art of mental relaxation and mental focus training.  What I will cove here is meditation that is practiced by warriors and how one should conduct themselves in this practice.

The warrior meditates in the early morning or at early night depending on the individuals' schedule.  The manner in which this is to happen must be in a time of the day where there is complete silence, no call phone ringing, no alarm clock, nothing except silence.

To begin with, sit in a relaxed position, and begin to breath slow but steady.  This sets up the pace for breathing and for warrior meditation.  The next step is establish the breathing and slowly close your eyes.  While breathing, your mind must be focused on one thing, imagine in your mind that a light is shining above you and it is far away.  Your goal is to get to that light.  While keeping this mental picture, bring to mind the tasks of the day and what needs to be done.  This should create a mountain in which you have to climb.  No I must add that this is not an exercise in imagination, but rather a  mental picture of your journey as a warrior and that each step must bring you closer to your end goal.

The next stage that follows is what I call "the war of the mind."  What this means is the problems that warriors face in life: drama, emotions, desires based on pleasure, the need for pleasure, the ego, reacting to peoples' words or gestures, mockery, depression, anger, lust, greed for wealth, people or material things, the need to hide or lie, personal secrets or battles.  All of this comes crashing on the mind, yet one will ask how can we fight against all these things?

The answers is this.

There is a saying that goes like this:  "Fight with the head, forget the heart."  While this sounds harsh if not brazen with roughness.  In actuality, this saying gives profound advice.  When a warrior engages in the battles of the mind and heart, the individual is to fight these battles with their mind and wisdom rather than with emotions (which can be unstable) and the desire to get things done with quick fix mentality.  Instead, the warrior utilizes his knowledge of the problem he/she faces and calculates the strategy and plan to defeat the problem.  The last thing is to take action to defeat the problem of the mind by following through with the plan by your physical actions. All the battles start and end in the mind.  The victor of the battle must be your intellect and willpower to follow through by your action.

The battles and the problems will change in nature and level of difficulty.  However, when one's mind is set on wisdom and discernment as a mountain, the problems become predictable and the answer the same: win the battle of the mind and heart and you will master yourself.

Mastery of self is what brings about victory after victory of these battles, it is best to know yourself and your potential so as not to loose hope or confidence.

When you meditate, ponder on what your problems are, and where you want yourself to be at.