“The time has come for the peaceful warrior. The warrior that doesn’t reach violence or war to reach his goal, but the warrior that acts from the heart. Its weapons are compassion, love and wisdom. And its enemies are ignorance, judgement and hatred.
Its arrows are not directed to any particular group or person, because the peaceful warrior knows we are all human beings trying to find our way out of the claws of illusion. We are all caught in the web of samsara. And to free ourselves we have to liberate first our own mind and release our negative emotions.
This is no easy practice. That’s why it takes a warrior’s mind to be sharp, relentless and yet compassionate and wise. Each one of us has a favorite enemy, someone or something that we want to fight. Could be our father or mother, our leaders or any other authority figure, or it could be our neighbors, other people, the system, the bad guys, another religion, another race, we can even want to fight ourselves and fight an inner battle. To get out of this fight and survival modus, it takes a lot of courage, wisdom and strength. But in the end it is rewarding on many levels.
To bring peace to the world, we first have to bring peace and healing to our own mind and soul. Yes, there is darkness, injustice, war and suffering. Yet how can we avoid to contribute to it, knowingly or unknowingly. This is the way of the peaceful warrior.”
(13/06/2025)
