Warriors of Peace: The Two Wolves Within

A little boy was walking with his uncle in the woods when the boy turns to his Uncle and asks “Where does good and evil came from?

The Uncle sat the little boy down on a near by rock, pointed to the boy's chest and said. “Inside there, lives two wolves. One is love and one is hate.” The little boy leaned in, eagerly asking, “Which one wins?”
“Well, that depends.” said the Uncle. “Which one do you feed the most?”

A long time ago, a friend of mine helped me understand the importance and power behind one simple fact.
It does not matter what is true, it only matters what we believe to be true.

And the belief, that just about everyone struggles with, on some level, is that we are separate from one another.

Even if we have come to understand that we are all connected, everything in our world reflects what we have been taught to perceive, that we are separate.

And the second we view ourselves as separate, however reluctant, we create a reality of war. We become at war with the truth: that we are all connected. And life reflects this division to us. Little battles erupt around us and we develop our strategies in response. Separate vs connected. Peace versus war, love versus hate.

A warrior is an agent of unity.

A warrior studies and heals the division within himself, so that unity and peace can exist in the world outside him. A warrior develops courage to face down fear in all its forms, feelings, beliefs, sensations.

In short, to study to be a warrior is to face the battles within. To see beyond the trickery of division, and drop straight through, as a sword that sinks through hard earth, to the place where neither wolf exists. It is to accept you are both wolves, and out of that you are neither.

This is the battle before you, and when you take up your arms, you become a warrior for truth, an agent of peace.

There is the belief in Asia that a warrior achieves greatness when he learns how to not have the fight in the first place. So I ask you Warriors of light, in the areas of your life that present division, struggle, what is there to do, to put down the fight?