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# Blood & Ink: Tuesday
- URL: https://www.zenmedicine.co/09/
- Published: 2024-10-08T12:35:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-09T15:58:30.000Z
- Description: bushido / sudden violence / martial skill
- Author: Eric Brown
- Tags: Blood x Ink

*“The only solution for bad and violent people are good people that are more skilled in violence.”* 
  
*– Samurai Bushido Code*

## **It is not enough to be ‘willing’ to engage in violence…**

With enough poking—and a few extreme hypotheticals—you can get most *(spiritual)* people to admit they would be willing to use violence to protect something they care about.

> *“If they had a gun to your mom’s head, and no possible alternative, and only you could stop them, and, and, and…”*

Effective shadow integration is how you arrive at this first milestone. 

**But it is nowhere near enough.**

Against who do you imagine you need to be violent? An 8-year-old child? A sickly woman? A decrepit grandfather?

**Unlikely.** 

If violence was necessary, odds are it’s against a middle-aged man, with some mix of: 

- combat experience (war)
- motivated aggression against you (theft/home invasion)
- the element of surprise (mugging)
- deep training (martial arts sparring)

**If you have not *trained in* violence you’re going to be submitted instantly, or worse.**

If you think you can ‘turn on berserker mode’ in the heat of the moment, you overestimate yourself and underestimate who your opponent(s) might be.

Willingness is a good start, it is the initial spark.

Stoke the flame, develop martial skill,  
Eric Brown.