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The one who serves

The samurai were, are, and always will be, those who serve others.

In the past, a samurai would serve an Army. Now they serve a corporation, a team or a family.

This is their true nature. The essence that transcends beyond any form. Serving a lord. A warrior without a lord is just a ronin wandering through the limbo and whose soul is getting dangerously close to the hell’s abyss.

A lord may have many forms. But here too, form holds little importance. The lord is not a man or a woman. The lord is not a flag. The lord is not a corporation.

The lord is an idea for which it is worth dying, and beyond that, it is an idea for which it is worth living.

It has always been hard to know how to choose the right lord. Since ideas do not belong to this world, but inhabit another, more subtle place. And the only way of serving ideas is serving other people and organisations.

Making a mistake in choosing a person or an organisation is painful; making a mistake in choosing an idea, more so. But making mistakes is an essential part of the way of the samurai.

That is why it has always been better to serve the wrong lord than to serve none at all. Serving the wrong lord is not a sin. Serving more than expected is not a sin either. Those who really sin are those who serve no one but themselves.

After all, those who do not serve, serve no purpose at all.

Only those who serve humbly are those who truly lead.

That is why it is written that whoever is able to bow with pure honesty, will make the entire universe bow in return.