Denying oneself is an indulgence. Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior s indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable.
Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, trough space, to infinity.
When a man embarks on the warriors path he becomes aware in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been left behind. Every bit of knowledge that becomes power has death as its central force. Death lends the ultimate touch, and whatever is touched by death indeed becomes power. Only the idea of death makes the warrior sufficiently detached so that he is capable of abandoning himself to anything. He knows his death is stalking him and won t give him time to cling to anything, so he tries without craving, all of everything.