The Way of the Warrior Monk

Posted by Allen Baird, Partner on Sep 14, 2009 in personal development | 0 comments

I’ve been thinking about the Jedi again, and how they are a mythical type of the warrior-monk.  Different cultures have expressed this type throughout the centuries: the Sohei warriors of ancient Japan, the Knights Templar, perhaps the Islamic Assassins, and definitely the Shaolin monks of Kung-Fu fame. There is something attractive to me about this combination of seeming opposites.  The...