After winning several archery contests, the young and rather boastful champion challenged a Jedi Master who was renowned for his skill as an archer. The young man demonstrated remarkable technical proficiency when he hit a distant bull's eye on his first try, and then split that arrow with his second shot. "There," he said to the old man, "see if you can match that!" Undisturbed, the master did not draw his bow, but rather motioned for the young archer to follow him up the mountain. Curious about the old fellow's intentions, the champion followed him high into the mountain until they reached a deep chasm spanned by a rather flimsy and shaky log.

Calmly stepping out onto the middle of the unsteady and certainly perilous bridge, the Master picked a far away tree as a target, drew his bow, and fired a clean, direct hit. "Now it is your turn,"…

1. Let the Force be your guide.

2. Know your motives for becoming involved.

3. Seek to know the motives of others involved.

4. Be aware of outside motivators.

5. Understand the dark and light in all things.

What is meant by "making the will sincere" is that one should not deceive oneself. This sincerity should be like the sincerity with which we dislike a bad smell or love what is beautiful. This is called satisfying your own conscience. Therefore a Jedi is watchful over himself even when he is alone.

People usually lose their sense of judgment toward those whom they love, toward those whom they despise or dislike, toward those whom they fear, toward those whom they pity and towards those whom they pamper or are proud of. Therefore, there are few people in this world who can see the bad in those whom they like and see the good in those whom they dislike. As Jedi we seek to overcome these habits in ourselves. Thus seeing the truth in all people.

A Jedi first searches himself before he demands it of others, and makes sure…

I was reading "Beyond the Occult" (by Colin Wilson) the other day, when I got this idea. I was aware that it is part of Jedi philosophy to be able to put full attention to the 'here and now'; but I had known it only theoretically. And I realize that many other Knights and Masters in the Jedi community have never exercised awareness practically, either.

Then, I came upon this fragment, containing a quote from the book "The Magus of Strovolos" (an account on the mage Daskalos), with a surprisingly simple exercise:

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[these words by Daskalos], for example, might have been said by Gurdjieff or by some Zen master: