Blood & Ink: Tuesday

bushido / sudden violence / martial skill

“The only solution for bad and violent people are good people that are more skilled in violence.”

– Samurai Bushido Code

It is not enough to be ‘willing’ to engage in violence…

With enough poking—and a few extreme hypotheticals—you can get most (spiritual) people to admit they would be willing to use violence to protect something they care about.

“If they had a gun to your mom’s head, and no possible alternative, and only you could stop them, and, and, and…”

Effective shadow integration is how you arrive at this first milestone. 

But it is nowhere near enough.

Against who do you imagine you need to be violent? An 8-year-old child? A sickly woman? A decrepit grandfather?

Unlikely. 

If violence was necessary, odds are it’s against a middle-aged man, with some mix of: 

• combat experience (war)

• motivated aggression against you (theft/home invasion)

• the element of surprise (mugging)

• deep training (martial arts sparring)

If you have not trained in violence you’re going to be submitted instantly, or worse.

If you think you can ‘turn on berserker mode’ in the heat of the moment, you overestimate yourself and underestimate who your opponent(s) might be.

Willingness is a good start, it is the initial spark.

Stoke the flame, develop martial skill,
Eric Brown.