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Do you know joy? Do you have joy in your work as a warrior? Can you identify and react appropriately to instances of joy during the very moments you are working your hardest to fight? Can you share in your opponent’s joys? All of these skills are vitally important. As you have other duties and responsibilities, it is your duty to remain human and sympathetic, and if you cannot experience or express joy, you won’t. You will seem wooden and angry and you’ll get no alliance or sympathy from bystanders.

Joy maps to (in my system), the fourth trigram: Wind.

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I have at least four more Tao of… posts to write. I’d planned to write 8 and I’m sticking to that promise, both for symbolic and thematic reasons.

I hope that it’s doing more folks than just me good, but it is doing me good to articulate myself and some of my beliefs about being an ethical activist/warrior.

I have been reading and rereading bits and bobs of this year’s cultural appropriation discussions and I am left with some questions.

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