I was sat thinking last night. I’m in difficult times at the minute, but something came to mind that I read while browsing a book on Buddhist spirituality on the Evolution store in Birmingham over the weekend.
The author was of the opinion that our darker nature contains spiritual gems, anyone who’s been reading me regularly will know I agree with that view. But a thread on Star Wars over at the Tea house reminded me of something I read elsewhere about the Dark Side.
We all know the character of Mace Windu, he was a very powerful Jedi. More so than Yoda, or so it’s implied. Why? Because he didn’t fear the dark side, to quote the Revenge of the Sith novel (p330):
There was a time when Mace Windu had feared the power of the dark; there was a time when he had feared the darkness in himself. But the Clone Wars had given him a gift of understanding: on a world called Haruun Kal, he had faced his darkness and had learned that the power of darkness is not to be feared.
He had learned that it is fear which gives the darkness power.
He was not afraid. The darkness had no power over him. But-
Neither did he have power over it.
This concurs with my own feelings on the matter, that your own dark side only has power over you if you fear it. This is also true of a dark time or situation, if you realise that you always have some power in any situation, you don’t have to fear it and so it has much less power over you.
Little Dragon says:
You’re right - we should all become aware of our ‘dark’ side. Examine it, understand it and then it won’t be frightening or need to be locked down as it will have no power over us.
Thanks for a great post.
10 August 2006, 10:56 am