02-03-2014, 12:00 AM
trinsic wrote:Continuing from my introduction, I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on how they stay on the path of a Warrior.I find myself getting distracted by civilized life a great deal. I work in fixing computers so I deal with the public a lot. and I live in a a small city. I sometimes wonder if it would better to drop everything and move to a place where I can pratice silence, stalking, and dreaming. In fact every time I think about leaving society a powerful emotion of sadness comes into me, in my heart center. Its as if I a am missing something. Like when you think that you have forgotten something important. Has that happened to anyone?
I deal with the public too. You can adapt those times to your benefit through stalking. Then be sure to make time for yourself to be alone, at home or travel into nature. So that your time is divided into two lives: with and without people. At least that has worked for me. I get benefits of experience and learn from both environments. Then night dreaming is a continued enrichment, like a bridge between the two.
If you were to leave society all together, you would miss out on a storehouse of value able experiences that can come only from human interaction IMO. On the other hand, time alone is so very important, as is being silent, meditating etc. So that longing feeling, I have felt it too, but if I were to actually leave society completely, I doubt it would be ultimately beneficial. So the longing may not be as accurate if given a test run. I think it would lead to stasis....this is based on having done some temporary retreats from society. They are great in a way at first, but then everything just slows down.
I deal with the public too. You can adapt those times to your benefit through stalking. Then be sure to make time for yourself to be alone, at home or travel into nature. So that your time is divided into two lives: with and without people. At least that has worked for me. I get benefits of experience and learn from both environments. Then night dreaming is a continued enrichment, like a bridge between the two.
If you were to leave society all together, you would miss out on a storehouse of value able experiences that can come only from human interaction IMO. On the other hand, time alone is so very important, as is being silent, meditating etc. So that longing feeling, I have felt it too, but if I were to actually leave society completely, I doubt it would be ultimately beneficial. So the longing may not be as accurate if given a test run. I think it would lead to stasis....this is based on having done some temporary retreats from society. They are great in a way at first, but then everything just slows down.