The Way of the Sith - Darth Magellon's HolocronThe Loftiness of Passion
The following should be the foundation of your life as a Sith, especially if you want to become self-disciplined. All the discipline you can muster isn’t much of anything if you don’t have the quality of persistence, the instinct to never give up, even if you were to fail, and to be able to get back up again, stronger than before. Without this, your discipline would be difficult and perhaps even impossible to achieve.
The strongest emotions fuel your purpose or goals and produce clarity and focus. Insights on the nature of emotions, their purpose or ways in which they can be used, channeled into drive and energy and it pushes one towards self-knowledge, and the nature of the force. Passion fuels goals and action, and action creates clarity.
Jedi assume morals are everything, but Sith believe that morals aren’t always relevant to realistic outcomes, higher goals or aspirations. Sith see sovereignty and understanding or awareness of the self as crucial to become whole. Sith don’t deny half of what they are to appease others. This is potentially leads to passions being driven by impulse or emotivism, and a lack of restraint, but passion as long as its given form and direction by a force of will, often times leads to integration and so, it is intertwined with empowerment. Ethics should be seen as a boat to get across a river, to accomplish certain specific outcomes.
Passion starts with a decision to reject the morality of the masses, and often will lead to feelings of resentment, rebellion, and disobedience in the rejection of the light and teachings of moral based systems. In its place the Sith rises by the strength of will/aspirations, restraints are loosened on emotions and instincts, seeing these as serving a purpose or a powerful outcomes and potent actions. Sith recognise passion as a reality, as the crucial factor and inner drive, a force that fuels their goals and drives them to go on the attack, to struggle for life, to resist structures that attempt to control their direction in all areas, and the passion to triumph over their struggles. Passions come in many varieties but four are key to the unlocking their potent actions, these four key components are the passion that drives creation, destruction, rebellion and transformation. Passion allows one to struggle and persist over weaker peers or one’s competitors, to engage in the struggle fully in the fight to survive, adapt, or procreate or gain triumph towards a victory, over all adversaries. Those whose passions are stronger than one’s rivals will desire survival or victory more, and thus he will be significantly more Those who tap into or channel their passions more fully will be left standing, because they struggle through dire circumstances or worse odds, or the passion to not give up in the furtherance of a purpose or goal, and against somebody of similar quality traits for the role, they will triumph over them.
Passions form into a single-mindedness of purpose that when acted upon fuels our passion. Action creates motivation and desire precedes any consideration of goal setting, desire forms our inner world with which we strive with intentionality or purposefulness to an end. Power rests upon ultimately upon desire, the spark of power, the desire to struggle for life and to triumph over adversaries or foes. Achieving our goals takes much effort and time. If it was as easy as a few meditation sessions and cardio, then just about anyone would or could be a potent Sith acolyte. What turns a normie into someone with a sense of personality and individuality is what it takes to get there to begin with, and that is the persistence we all have. Even the biggest names you can come up with were doomed to fail if it wasn’t for their persistence, to do and succeed in what they envisioned for themselves at any point in time, especially if it’s difficult, then it’s early on or at some point or another. This kind of ‘failure’, which is really an outcome more than it is failure, is the lofty belief that we are always proceeding closer to our dreams. Each time we gather ourselves back up, or going onwards, we get closer to our stated goals. Each time we grow stronger, and perhaps we may become somewhat smarter each time we do it. Any result that we conjure up is one that takes a bit of time and effort, of course, but it always is closer to reaching a stated or unstated goal. Passion is ruling the day. It brings us towards it with what we are envisioning as being better having done than not having done at all, doing something for the sake of doing it, ‘we are better for having done what we sought to than waiting for some magical moment in time where we do decide to take the plunge’ and ‘action is better than the alternative, the inertia of abstract thinking’. These principles, we could call them, are really artefacts of a dark-side thought process, impending or approaching from our core. This persistence, then the core of what we believe in, it is passion that I speak of. Passion is something that relaxes you, drives you, forces you to strive, and to deny passion would conjure up anxiety or feelings of paralysis. When I allow passion to be the driving force behind my action, all feelings of guilt wash away, and that allows me to do whatever I want to or whatever we are fit to.
Stay persistent and try to come up with a list of the reasons you want the things you want. Don’t underestimate the effects that reasons have. They may compel, encourage, and motivate people to act in ways most conducive to their own empowerment. Passions make us better people; they gather up hidden potential to be used as a Sith-like weapon towards slowly slashing down the problems we face. Every time we are breaking or clashing away at problem until it starts to eventually begins to give in to our selective pressures and then finally give way, the practice of our knowledge may lead to wisdom. Wisdom is experience; it’s knowing the difference between that which languishes and that which provides you with the means to achieve ends and fulfil unlimited freedom. Analyse the situation and find the solution that is most beneficial with wisdom.
Analyse the enemy for weaknesses, then exploit that weakness. Fulfil your purpose, or in other words, see the bigger picture, and the result will be clear to you that you must take. You can then instruct your servants about A to Z on how to solve the problem. Sith are always problem solvers. This isn’t to say that passion of purpose and strategically attacking weakness is the only advantage in our ever-growing arsenal, but it’s a rather potent beginning and important, nonetheless intermediary, ability that we all have in our journey.
Passion has us evolve to be assertive in what we say and do. Passion saves us time because of whittling away at a problem until it gives way, which in turn saves us from an obstacle’s pressures, the despair and frustration over its undue influence in our lives. Problems always require wisdom to solve. Power is oftentimes the wisdom we have, utilise, and discover. Analysing the situation and finding what solution that you can find is most beneficial. Scan the enemy to find their weaknesses, by their actions, their ways, and their spoken word, then when the time comes, exploit that weakness. Use your purpose, or in other words, the bigger picture; thus, you will take that drive and use it for you will find and mobilise that result that reveals itself to you. We tackle problems head on or so we are taught to, and our passion gives us that necessary drive to see some good come of it. We are natural problem solvers. It’s the best people in society, and billionaires tend to be. When society, however, teaches us to deny ourselves, to self-sacrifice unwittingly for others and most unwittingly for authority, we lose ourselves in the process and become like mere automatons, puppets without the will to engage and assert ourselves. We have to learn to unlearn that tendency, and to that, we meet fresh problems.
The longer and harder path towards wisdom and understanding is what creates a power greater than many, also builds up and makes it easier to attain our basic competence and create social order. It’s also foregoing the impatience, arrogance, and overconfidence to have entitlement. That doesn’t suggest that the person in question has earned the rank or title that he or she pertains to want, demand, or recklessly pursue.
Social stigmas are the common parlance of trust and rejection or disapproval. We would do well to learn from the mistakes of continuing cycles of trust and then rejection, rejecting someone for their relationships, hedonistic tendency, culture, gender, race, illness, and disease. It’s in fact a common issue in our culture that cultures probably exhibit commonly the same issue of trust then rejection. We could learn to distrust by nature, and forego the whole rejection side until society has cleared itself up. People are trapped in concepts of right and wrong governed by society’s whims and opinion. We are all shackled by the chains of social stigmas and personal defeat. It’s only by digging deep into our darkness we can find the strength to overcome such personal and collective problems. We must use our dedication. Dedicated passion can lead to a world of endless possibilities. This is a step further that we are all at all times being tested on. Life is always testing us on our resolve. We may find that at any time we may get distracted, taken off course. We steer the direction with our rudder, like a ship captain, to bring us back on course, but by small common adjustments. Passion is the heat of the furnace. Direction is what we must come up with; otherwise, that fire or flame won’t be guiding us to our destination or our goal. Thus, our direction is really our chosen dedication to overcome a difficult problem and facing the ones we must all face. Problems are overcome by our dedication to our wisdom, experience (our knowledge applied to circumstances). Conflict with circumstance is what yields strength, and it forces us to be evolving: minor adaptations, change, growth, or death. The obstacles are the mighty seas, and being the captain of one’s fate is the overall responsibility or ownership we have over our fates; metaphysics means worldview, it’s a set of interlinked values and abstract and/or practical ideas. A worldview will be our fate so choose your beliefs with the mentality for what increases your power, power over yourself and your environment and surroundings, that resistance has been overcome to your ideal world.