The Mood of a Warrior

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The 'name' of my blog is, heitai.blogspot.com. 'Heitai' is Japanese for 'soldier.' It is a misnomer. I had asked Kootch what the Japanese word for 'warrior' was and she returned, 'heitai.' So I want to correct a possible misunderstanding: I am not a soldier I am a warrior. There is a huge difference.

And I use the term, 'warrior' in the sense that Don Juan used it when he said, 'A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgement. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.'