INTERSPIRITUALITY │BECOMING WHO WE ARE
How to Be a Spiritual Warrior
From an Interspiritual perspective ~ 7 of 9
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Spiritual Warrior
We have been considering how to become Spiritual Warriors from the Interspiritual perspective. In the first article of this series, we defined a Spiritual Warrior as a person who has the strength to know who they are, what they stand for, where they are called, and how they are going to get there. Earlier in this series, we read that Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chogyam Trungpa described a Spiritual Warrior in this way:
“Warriorship here does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Here the word “warrior” is taken from the Tibetan pawo, which literally means “one who is brave.” Warriorship in this context is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.” — (from his book, “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”)
We are using Jesus’ list of the blessed from his Sermon on the Mount, as recorded by Matthew, as a guide to becoming Spiritual Warriors ourselves. In the last installment, we looked at “Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.” We came to the conclusion that to be merciful was to…
