Before diving into the spirit and the codes of a warrior, let me be
very clear that there is a historical and modern difference between most
warriors and the idealism of what it means to be a warrior. If all warriors
followed the codes, there never would have been a library of books that have
been written over the centuries admonishing warriors on the meaning of the code
that they are to follow.
Furthermore, it should be acknowledged that there is a difference
between being a warrior and being a noble warrior—a knight, a dog soldier, a
samurai, or any such type of noble warrior in your culture. This is the plan
for this blog, to write about following the path of the noble warrior—what it
meant in the past, what it means today, and what it may mean tomorrow,
especially in a world that outwardly seems to have become jagged and distrustful
of such codes and where it is impossible to walk without tripping over someone’s
personal agenda.
What is my agenda? It is transparent. The name of this site was
carefully chosen. It is made up of three words—Ghost, Owl, and Samurai. The
first word is Ghost and is a salute to the movie Ghost Dog: The Way of the
Samurai. In the movie, the character Ghost Dog is a man who pursues the Bushido
(the way of the Noble Warrior) as it is explained in Hagakure, written by Yamamoto
Tsunetomo.
The second word is Owl. It is a symbol of mystery, piercing the veil of
illusion, wisdom, war, art, the bringer of luck, protector from suffering. The
owl is my personal symbol and spirit guide.
The third word, Samurai, is to reference following the way of the
Bushido.
With this blog, I will be exploring and sharing my life of following the code and the
characters I create in the new stories I am writing as I relaunch my
author career after having to put it on hiatus.
Interesting. Thank you, David.
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