Soul Sword, 2nd Edition: The Way and Mind of a Zen Warrior - Softcover

Turner, Vernon Kitabu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571741518 ISBN 13: 9781571741516

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

The power of the Warrior Mind is its ability to act from Mushin...a state of No Mind. As a mirror reflects objects without clinging to the images, the Warrior Mind is free to flow from one object to the next without impediment. From this state arises instinctive wisdom, the power that allows ordinary people to perform extraordinary feats.

This is the power that lives within each of us: the power which the author, a legendary black belt and Zen master, hopes to awaken in his readers. It functions within us daily but is counteracted by the false mind and its endless projections. The task is to still the mind to the point where "the action and the actor [are] a seamless thread."

Daily life is the battlefield for the Warrior Mind. The author shows us how to "flow into the affairs of the day. Meeting the rising and falling of circumstance, we learn how to . . trust our true selves once again."

Soul Sword is an active meditation for those who wish to be in the world but not of it.

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Review:

"Zen-warrior and literary lion Vernon Kitabu Turner shares his experience and insight with clarity and compassion. His words ring like temple bells, resonating with the eternal truths of transcendent teachings, conveying both substance and spirit." --Dan Millman, author of Way of the Peaceful Warrior

About this edition

• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1571741518
• ISBN 13: 9781571741516
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192