Peaceful Warrior

Just watched this Beautiful Movie--"PEACEFUL WARRIOR" ....a true Story of a gymnast - Dan MillMan.

Dan Millman is a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. After an intensive, twenty-year spiritual quest, Dan’s teaching found its form as the Peaceful Warrior’s Way, expressed fully in his books and lectures. Dan’s thirteen books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, have inspired and informed millions of readers in 29 languages worldwide. The feature film, “Peaceful Warrior“, starring Nick Nolte, was adapted from Dan’s first book, based upon incidents from his life.

Much of Dan’s time is devoted to writing and speaking. His keynotes, seminars, and workshops span the generations to influence men and women from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, politics, sports, entertainment, and the arts.Dan and his wife Joy live in northern California. He has three grown daughters and two grandsons.
It is on what he wants to achieve in his life and how his life changes when he meets a person whom he refers to as " Socrates"....Every scene and every dialogue in the movie has a very profound meaning and one can really relate it with the wisdom taught in the courses or in all the good books about what actually life is.

It touches upon " Whys" in the Life and what one seeks ---the Movie actually talks about evolution on an individual not only in the body but all other realms in Life...How he actually gets out of the monkey called Mind and comes to the Present moment.

The Movie weaves in a pattern such that it brings all the broken threads of knowledge together and produces a Robe called Wisdom and when one wears this robe .....What results is an unconditional state of happiness

I could actually relate it with some of the Art of Living/Zen Teachings of being in the Present Moment and giving your 100 % . It also touches upon Bhagwat Geeta in one aspect of " Karm Kar aur Phal ki Chinta Mat Kar"....The Main Character in the Movie applies these principles in his Life and what comes out is a total transformation in his Life.

This is the Power of Knowledge....If you are in gyan....you know that what is happening around ar eonly events and these shall also Pass....This Movie is a Must Must Watch for someone who really wants to understand Life Better....Also, It is a must must watch for those who do not want to understand life....cos both school of thoughts merge in this movie and the confluence is Amazing.....Buy this CD and watch it at Home.... and the end is utterly beautiful !!!!!

Enclosing some of the Dialogues from the Movie....

1. There are no ordinary moments.

2. This moment is the only thing that matters.

3. Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness…if you had little time left to live…you would waste precious little of it. Well, I'm telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason…or you will never be at all.

4. The first realization of a warrior is not knowing.

5. Every action has it's pleasure and it's price.

6. You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability…to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.

7. Find the love in what you do.

8. Everything has a purpose. It's up to you to find it.

9. If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.

10. Some people live their whole lives without ever waking up.

11. Knowledge is not the same as wisdom.

12. Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation…is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

13. I call myself a Peaceful Warrior…because the real battles we fight are on the inside.

14. Find your answers from inside.

15. Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is…the only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.

16. Those who are hardest to love are the ones who need it most.

17. Throw out everything that is keeping you from this moment.

18. Where are you? Here. What time is it? Now. What are you? This moment.

19. There is never nothing going on.

20. Three principles of reality: Paradox, Humor, and Change.

21. There is only the journey.