THE
FOURTH ENEMY OF MAN
The warrior
will be, by then at the end of his journey of learning, and almost
with out warning he will come upon the last of his enemies: OLD AGE. This
enemy is the cruelest of all, the one he won't be able to defeat completely,
but only fight away. This
is a time when a warrior has no more fears, no more impatient clarity of
mind, a time when all his power is in check, but also a time when he has
an unyielding desire to rest. If he gives in totally to his desire to lie
down and forget, if he soothes himself in tiredness, he will have lost
his last round and his enemy will have cut him down into a feeble old creature.
His desire to retreat will over come his clarity, his power and his knowledge.
If the warrior, can slough off his tiredness and live his fate through,
he can then be called a man of knowledge, if only for a brief instant
when he succeeds in fighting off his last invincible enemy. That moment
of clarity, power and knowledge is enough.
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