People are often puzzled to read statements about Warriors , as it conjures-up thoughts; perhaps of war-mongering, BasketBall Teams, Savages replete with Spears and Blow-guns, and maybe, just maybe Spiritual people, Warriors of Peace, Spiritual Warriors, etc. not to mention the Warrior-Priest !  

 Last summer I recieved "The Gift of Hafiz", a book of poetry, written by  a man so deep and so mystical, that he has been called "The Tongue of the Invisible" !   Often I write about Life as a Path, and those on that Path  as Pilgrims and Warriors , on their  way Home. Ours is not an easy Path, as it is sometimes lonely , but it is always worthwhile !   This Path does require something...a depth of honesty, courage and of course Matri...Loving-kindness...and an Openness to allow and to "Let Go" of the unnecessary, in order to become...  

                             THE WARRIOR      

The Warriors tame

The beasts in their past

So that the nights hoofs

Can no longer break the jeweled vision

In the heart

The intelligent and the brave

Open every closet in the future

And evict all the minds ghosts who

Have the bad habit

Of barfing everywhere

For a long time the Universe

Has been germinating in your spine

But only a Pir* has the talent

The courage to slay

The past-giants, the future anxieties

The Warrior

Wisely sits in a circle

With other men

Gathering the strength to unmask

Himself

Then

Sits, giving,

Like a great illumined planet on

The

Earth.

               Hafiz  (Sufi Master)     

                (1320-1389)

                           Pir* , the Persian word for saint.

To all the brave Warriors upon the Path, I simply say ; BE !

Shen Sung

  Fred