Yours is a legacy of service to those in need,
protection to those in distress and strength to those who are overpowered.
Your guide is Nin-Po, the silent means of working your will without actions.
Your reward is spiritual growth and active role in the scheme of totality.

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Master Hatsumi, Soke Togakarei

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They way that can be told is not the eternal way.
It cannot be explained or defined. It can only be experienced.
This is the way of the Silent Shadow Warrior:
looked for they cannot be seen
listened for they cannot be heard
felt for they cannot be touched.

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An old warrior legend

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1. Choose to do whatever brings the greatest pleasure and the greatest amount of knowledge over the longest length of time for self as well as for the collective.
    

2. Take full responsibility for your choices.
    

3. Never give your power away to anyone or anything at any time.
    

4. Stand at the centre of your own circle of life, at cause with full beauty within your being.
    

5. Seek perfection through becoming impeccable. Find the inner truth which leads you into proper alignment with all things within the Everything. Come into harmonic resonance with your ancestors and the Great Spirit.
    

6. Choose the proper and correct use of energy at all times and within all spaces.
    

7. Follow the great Sacred Laws of natural, magickal, cosmic and universal origin and obey only those civil and social laws which conform to the great Sacred Laws.
    

8. Know the potentiality of change and chance and choose never to gamble.
    

9. Avoid the real-ness of the shideh’s self-importance and thereby give away your attachments, dependencies, judgments, comparisons and expectations.
    

10. Never be awed by anyone or anything. There is no such thing as miracles, only proper use of energy.
     

11. Seek knowledge for the pure beauty and pleasure of doing so, and for no other reason.
     

12. Have goals, but never focus on them. The Warrior’s focus is always on the Journey, which becomes the personal vision quest for enlightenment. Be here now!
     

13. Give away, let go of and completely erase your personal history by virtue of forgetting the past. You cannot change it, only learn from your mistakes and change today!
     

14. Look to the future by virtue of being totally here now. Tomorrow never comes, for when you wake up it is always today.
     

15. Accept mistakes as your greatest teachers but do not repeat them. Accept your success as a point of alignment and follow it into harmonic resonance.
     

16. Avoid short term pleasure which usually gives long term pain and choose instead long term pleasure which usually has short term pain. Acquire the prerequisite knowledge, the necessary tools and resources and apply your heart’s desire.
     

17. Choose to do onto others whatever you choose to do but take full responsibility for your choices.
     

18. Commit yourself to the collective dream of harmony and balance within all things and then to dancing your sacred dream awake.
     

19. Always transform your needs into wants and your wants into desires until the only needs you have are the basic needs of the warrior, that is, food, water, shelter, clothing, sleep and dreaming.
     

20. Learn the transforming deaths within the flowering tree shields of the Shideh and seek them out until you have the fully balanced shields of the Hokkshideh.
     

21. Learn to meet your needs from inside your own resource circle or orende and always choose to exchange energy only with those whose orende is one point above your own. Otherwise, it is a healing for the other or a set up for pain and dependency.
     

22. First hand experience is good but it may not always be proper use of energy. Sometimes we may avoid improper use of energy by virtue of learning from the mistakes of others as well as the previous experiences of our teachers.
     

23. Remember that wisdom and knowledge is felt, never thought.
     

24. Always apply the law of maximum efficiency with minimum effort.
     

25. The wise and true warrior knows that to influence the lives of men one must remain outside the circle of forces which affect them. Do not allow your life become entwined with the fortunes of those not on the path to enlightenment.
     

26. Become one with nature for nature is eternal and ever balanced and harmonious. Do so by virtue of establishing your inner and inter connection and alignment with the elements and the four worlds of Grandmother Earth. Then select your Path with Heart and follow it into a disciplined, alchemical and ceremonial process of movement into and through the 15 sacred Gateways of the Warrior.
     

27. Engage in the Great Game of Life but never take it seriously. Rather engage with a great deal of humour. Play in the Great Game yet be untouched by it (never at the effect). Remain honed to the fighting edge, prepared and capable to act in preservation of the sacred balance nature intends, or for the pleasure of acting. Always strive to become a man/woman of knowledge and lead by example. In this way one may become a warrior and pass their time in relative peace and harmony.
     

28. Remember to hold sacred the trinity of the warrior: Power = Love = Wisdom; Yin = Yang = Tao; Female = Male = Void. Power is performing an act because it is one’s will to do so. Love is the reverse of rational decision for you are doing the will of someone else. Wisdom is knowing the difference.
     

29. Always act and never react!
     

30. Become a part of the Warrior Family by learning to stalk the tyrants of life with skill, patience, dexterity and pleasure in order to count coup and gain proper alignment and knowledge.
     

31. The Silent Shadow Warrior Way leads one through the Gateways of Life into the Sacred Dome of the Wizards where one meets and merges into the Rainbow Warrior who walks the earth in harmony and balance being touched and reaching out to touch everyone and everything around them with their beauty. In this way, they walk the way of the Peaceful Warrior into the sacred light of their Higher Self.
     

32. Desire, perspire, acquire.
     

33. Thinking is dangerous. It produces emotions. So don’t think. Know.
     

 

This type of individual moves through life ever-centered, firmly fixed in the present moment and always mildly joyous with whatever or whomever he/she encounters. This person is unencumbered by the rules and laws or belief systems that limit the earth consciousness. He/she is not controlled by or susceptible to the emotional reactions that cloud the water consciousness. This person is not driven by the ambitions or fears that dominate the fire consciousness, nor are they swayed by the concepts of right/wrong, good/evil, moral/immoral, ethical/unethical that appear from the intellect operating within a wind consciousness. Their personality becomes so clear that there appears no personality at all. These Silent Shadow Warriors are so in touch with their true natures that they become impossible to predict and therefore impossible to control!

 

They always exhibit the true warrior’s freedom: they are never at the effect of anything or anyone, anywhere in anyway or at anytime. They walk in beauty with their six swords of clarity: self-awareness, self-appreciation, self-acceptance, self-pleasure, self-love and self-actualization. They do not need anyone’s approval, recognition or acceptance. They derive all of these from Great Spirit and their Higher Self for they have found their Path with Heart.