Lessons from the Jedi

The Jedi spirituality is much closer to our spirituality. There is a running joke here that we are a group called the "SJ" which we call the "Society of Jedi's". Learning the way of the force (or the Spirit) which all of us went through a rigorous training for us to see where the force (Spirit) is leading us. These days, I go back to those what I have learned for the Jedi Masters. And its true that we can apply it in our own lives.

The need to reflect, be at peace and calm. Like what we do in the Consciousness Examen:

Yoda: Yes, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware of the dark side. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.
Luke: Vader... Is the dark side stronger?
Yoda: No, no, no. Quicker, easier, more seductive.
Luke: But how am I to know the good side from the bad?
Yoda: You will know... when you are calm, at peace, passive. A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

We all have fears, but if those fears would hinder us to do what is right, then we are being swallowed by the evil one. Courage is not the absence of fear, but despite of those fears we learn to face them:

Yoda: Afraid to lose her I think, hmm?
Anakin: What has that got to do with anything?
Yoda: Everything! Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. I sense much fear in you.

On readiness and preparing for the future (assignments and uncertainties) :

Yoda: Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel will I keep on who is to be trained. A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away... to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was. Hmm? What he was doing. Hmph. Adventure. Heh. Excitement. Heh. A Jedi craves not these things. You are reckless.

On letting go: (this one I must say, my favorite of all. So much truth is being presented here, the need to let go. That is why our founder talks about inordinate attachments which may lead us to evil.)

Yoda: Premonitions, premonitions. These visions you have...
Anakin: They are of pain, suffering. Death.
Yoda: Yourself you speak of, or someone you know?
Anakin: Someone.
Yoda: Close to you?
Anakin: Yes.
Yoda: Careful you must be when sensing the future Anakin. The fear of loss is a path to the dark side.
Anakin : I won't let these visions come true, Master Yoda.
Yoda: Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed that is.
Anakin: what must I do, Master Yoda?
Yoda: Train yourself to let go... of everything you fear to lose.

and last of it all, on death:

Yoda: Death is a natural part of life. Rejoice for those around you who transform into the Force. Mourn on them do not. Miss them do not. Attachment leads to jealousy. The shadow of greed, that is.