The ally will come to have it with you, no matter what you feel. What I mean is, you do not need to do anything to attract him. You can be sitting down, wiggling your fingers, or thinking about women and suddenly, a slap on the shoulder, you turn around and your ally is right there beside you. What can a warrior do?
Fear is one thing we never fully overcome. When a warrior is caught in a difficult situation, he simply turns his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot have caprices, and thus cannot die of fright. A warrior only allows the ally to come when he is well prepared. When he is strong enough to fight the ally, he opens his breach and advances, grabs the ally, keeping him immobile, stays his gaze for the exact amount of time, then looks away and lets him loose. A warrior, my little friend, is the lord in all decisions.
You can only survive in the world of a sorcerer if you are a warrior. This means treating everything with respect, to not trample anything, unless required. A warrior does not give in to anything, not even to his death. A warrior is not a docile partner, a warrior is not available, and if he gets involved with something, you can be sure that he knows what he’s doing.
The idea of Death
Life for a warrior is an exercise in strategy. But you want to discover the meaning of life. A warrior does not care about meanings. All I can tell you is that a warrior is never available, never waits on the road, waiting to be slaughtered. Thus, it minimizes his likelihood of being taken by surprise. What you call accidents are most of the time very easy to avoid, except in the case of fools who live any which way.
What makes us unhappy is to desire. And so, if we learn to reduce our desires to zero, the smallest of things we receive will be a true gift. Being poor or needy is just an idea; as is hatred, or hunger, or pain. The power to do this is all that we have, pay close attention, to oppose the forces of our lives, without this power we are lost like dust in the wind.
It behooves us as individuals to go up against the forces in our lives. I told you this a few times: only a warrior can survive. The warrior knows that he is expecting and what he is expecting, and while he is waiting, needs nothing, and so any little thing he receives is more than can take. If he must eat, he finds a way, because he does not have hunger, if his body is hurt, he finds a way to stop it because he does not feel pain. To have hunger or feel pain means that the man has gone astray and is no longer a warrior and the forces of his hunger and his pain will destroy him.
A warrior thinks of his death when things get muddy, because the idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit. The detachment that the warrior has does not automatically mean wisdom, but it is an advantage because it allows him to pause momentarily to reassess situations, to reconsider positions. To use this extra time with awareness and correction, however, it is necessary for a warrior to fight relentlessly all throughout life.
A warrior cannot be beset. To be beset implies that one has personal possessions that can be blocked. A warrior has nothing in the world except his impeccability, and impeccability cannot be threatened. However, in a battle for life, a warrior must strategically use all available means.
A warrior is only a man, a humble man. He cannot modify the designs of his death, but his impeccable spirit, which has built up power after tremendous hardships, can certainly keep his death at bay for a while, long enough for him to rejoice one last time in recalling his power. You can say that it is a gesture that death has for those who have an impeccable spirit.
One of the acts of a warrior is to never let anything affect him. Thus, a warrior may be looking at the devil himself, but does not let anyone know it. The warrior’s control must be impeccable.
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