Martial Will

Some time ago, I was doing landscaping work with a buddy of mine. All day we stood in the heat, pulling weeds from the ground, struggling with gigantic root systems. The owner left the yard unmaintained for a year......and mother nature reclaimed the land. 

Anyways....there I was....shovel and glove....struggling to pull these cantankerous life-forms from the dirt and they were resisting with all there might. Stabbing, straining there roots.....they refused to yield. Here we are, human beings, at the peak of the food chain and ruling earth.....yet still struggling with fucking weeds! 

It was an impressive lesson....as Malcom would say......"life finds a way". Mother nature's tenacity to "fight" and will to "survive" is extraordinary. Naturally, this is not something only in weeds......but in all species.

The Martial Way is deep and extreme......this tenacity.....this will to live exemplified by the weeds, is an important "attitude" for both internal training, but especially for the Martial Path. There are many wars going on in the world right now and I see that "attitude" in these conflicts....the stubborn and brutal tenacity to survive and continue on into the light. Its an energy worthy of reverence and cultivation.