How a Zen Warrior is formed

Christian virtues · The purpose

Humility

Definition

Humility is an accurate size of yourself: able to be taught, unwilling to need the room.

The lesson

Humility is not talking yourself down. That is another costume. It is letting a true correction land, and refusing to arrange the day so that you remain the most capable man in it.

Practice it by taking the lower, useful job once without announcing that you are being humble. Or by asking a less celebrated person to teach you one thing they actually know.

How. Receive one correction, or take one unnoticed task that does not increase your standing.

Watch. A display of lowliness that still makes you the subject of the room.

The book finishes this. How humility is trained in a hall, where rank is real and the temptation to use it is constant.