Question to a Warrior

[HeroFightWarrio]

Do you think the spiritual or the fight is more important?

[mickey]

Greetings and Welcome to the forum, HeroFightWarrio,

Neither is more important.

For the warrior, it is the achievement of the goal/objective that needs to be accomplished that is important. Accomplishing that goal/objective may take spirit and/or may take "the fight" as you put it. Neither stand for anything if the end result is failure.

mickey

[GeneChing]

Do you think the spiritual or the fight is more important?

There is no distinction.

[bawang]

Do you think the spiritual or the fight is more important?

yes

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[wenshu]

[David Jamieson]

Nothing is important until you give it importance.
What is important to you may be meaningless to another.
What do you want to be important? When will you decide to be accountable for your life and choices made?

Ommmm mafa.

[MarathonTmatt]

A victory can be over anything- bad thoughts, poverty, sickness, a life and death situation, etc.

[rett2]

Maybe the question can be rephrased like this:

Suppose an angel appeared and told you that if you put in the effort you will suceed at becoming either:

One of a handful of the very best fighters and martial teachers of your generation (in whatever form of martial art you like)

or

A holy or truly wise person (in whatever religion or philosophy you believe in, a Saint, a Bodhisattva or Arahant, Enlightened being, born-again-saved, Spocklike ultimately rational, Taoist sage or whatever).

But the angel says you can’t be both. The one would exclude the other. In fact gaining the one would make you at best mediocre at the other.

Which would you choose?

[RenDaHai]

問「武」。曰：「克。」未達。曰：「勝己之私之謂克。」

Scholar: 'Master, what is the meaning of 武 'Martial nature'?

Master: Conquest!

Scholar: I do not understand....

Master: Overcoming your own selfishness is called conquest!

--- Yang Xiong (53 BC --- AD 18)


Seems to me overcoming selfishness would define the sage as well as the warrior.