"You must project your certainty, your confidence, but you must not confuse confidence with power. Power can lead to the dark side, somewhere a Jedi does not wish to go." Refel paused to judge whether he had answered correctly.
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Refel Ezer's training
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"Hmmm," saad Cade, contemplating in which order to address these misunderstandings, "Well first of all, the item I was going for was a lightsaber. You must have read the accounts of Form Zero in the archives, the mere prescence of a lightsaber can be as much a deterrent as using it. Namely, having a lightsaber can cause your enemy to back down before you even switch it on, okay?" he tried to sound kind and sympathetic, "and projecting certainty and confidence can help at times, but being the centre of attention is not always best for a Jedi. Which emotions and beliefs you project should be decided upon when judging ths situation prevailing at the time," he paused again before continuing in a stern tone, "Now, I would not say that power leads to the dark side, not at all. Fear, and anger, and hate, they lead to the dark side and don't confuse them with power. For power, it is something Jedi can have easily...would you consider the great Masters on the council to be powerful? I certainly do, but that does not make them acolytes of the dark side. These acolytes use their power to do bad things, but that does not make power bad. If you have two men of equal strength, and one chooses to use his strength to help others and to help himself, but the other uses his strength to hurt people and steal from them, would you say that it is the man or the strength that leads to darkness?"
"I was speaking of the abuse of power although I hadn't thought it through completly as you have and yes the very presence of a lightsaber will sway a persons veiw and at the confidence I must clear the matter I was speaking of projecting confidence directly to the person at hand. Also power can corrupt. Thinking about it, how many people would use power for others betterment when they can just as easily use it for self gain? I do not mean to be rebbelious but few people untrained in right or wrong such as the Jedi are out for anyone besides themselves." Refel finished hoping he hadn't offended his master.
"The Jedi are trained in right and wrong, as you so put it. And saying that power does not lead to the dark side is not my opinion, it's a fact," Cade kept his stern tone, "How you direct your confidence is again, up to you considering the matter at hand. In some cases confidence can antagonise the person or persons you are talking to, and you probably won't to do that. Now back to power. Power is not a tool of the dark side, it is something all Jedi must have, but abusing power is indeed something an acolyte of the dark side would do. And it is not the power that corrupts these people, it's what they achieve. Power itself is not something you should be afraid of, for if you are unwilling to embrace power there is no point you even training to become a Jedi Knight, for you need to become more powerful than you are now to get there, let alone become powerful enough to have the rank of master bestowed upon you."
He breathed deeply and paused, considering his new apprentice. He was impatient for starters, and extremely self confident, perhaps too much so. He was also quite stubborn. Cade was thinking if he was indeed right to be a Jedi, he had a very narrow minded outlook and seemed convinced of the evils in the world. But he did not seem to have experienced a great deal of them, indeed he had seemingly had a happy childhood.
He breathed deeply and paused, considering his new apprentice. He was impatient for starters, and extremely self confident, perhaps too much so. He was also quite stubborn. Cade was thinking if he was indeed right to be a Jedi, he had a very narrow minded outlook and seemed convinced of the evils in the world. But he did not seem to have experienced a great deal of them, indeed he had seemingly had a happy childhood.
"I sense...skepticism in you, young one," said Cade, "don't say you agree with me, if you don't. Voice your concerns, it is one of the tenets, one you have told me you understand and follow. But what I've told you is fact. Being a powerful Jedi will not make you a dark sided one. Sarus Kappa is probably the most powerful man in the galaxy, in terms of ability with the Force, yet he is the grandmaster of the Jedi Order. Do you understand the difference between power and the dark side? Because, if you don't there's very little I can do to teach you. To become a Jedi you must embrace power, recognise it, use it and stay in control of it. If you fear power then you will never progress, and that fear may lead you down the dark path."
"Master I understand what you say about power and I must say I agree with you it's just, it is hard for me to accept new ideas and I apoligize for my hard headidness. When I lived at the palace back home I was taught that power was not evil and that it those without it should not be treated equally. When I saw the outside world I simply assumed that all of what I had been taught was a lie. I saw people being treated equally and with respect so I assumed that everything I had been taught was wrong. Now I see even some things that are corrupt can have good in them as well." Refel took a deep breath,"Master, I am a clean slate I hope you can teach me the truth although I may still hold my own opinions I will weighthem carefully and decide the truth for myself." Refel was truly humbled and had made a major realization, he simply hoped his master would continue to train him.
"Good," said Cade, "and the first thing you must do on the road to becoming a Jedi is opening your mind, which you have just done. Now do you see why discussing what you learn and discover is as important as, if not more important than actually being able to do it?"
"Okay," said Cade, "You have learned to see in the Force, a good technique, but now we shall review the code, for I think that is something you have not quite grasped fully and it is something very important."
He paused and thought about what his apprentice had said earlier before speaking, "Emotion yet peace is the first line. You said that we must have emotions for we cannot control them, yet we must have peace. Well, I must ask you, if we cannot control out emotions, how can we achieve peace?" it was a rhetorical question, and Cade continued, "emotions makes us the people we are and make us feel for other things. Without them we would be robots, but this line in the code tells to what extent we must control them. If we lose control of our emotion then we could end up on the path to the dark side."
He paused for a second, to see if his apprentice had anything to say before he moved on.
He paused and thought about what his apprentice had said earlier before speaking, "Emotion yet peace is the first line. You said that we must have emotions for we cannot control them, yet we must have peace. Well, I must ask you, if we cannot control out emotions, how can we achieve peace?" it was a rhetorical question, and Cade continued, "emotions makes us the people we are and make us feel for other things. Without them we would be robots, but this line in the code tells to what extent we must control them. If we lose control of our emotion then we could end up on the path to the dark side."
He paused for a second, to see if his apprentice had anything to say before he moved on.
"Okay," said Cade, "Ignorance, yet knowledge. Your interpretation mentioned that we must remain ignorant in order to be able to learn new things, as though we should try to remain ignorant so we can learn things. I may be mistkaen and your wording may have confused me, but let's start afresh and consider that the code, here, tells us that no matter how hard we study, we will always be ignorant of some things, but we must strive to learn more, about cultures, life, people, combat, the Force and anything else you can think of. All knowledge is worth learning, and while we cannot know everything, we must live to learn more about the galaxy around us. Do you understand?"
Cade nodded back to him, "Passion, yet serenity you have basically grasped. Passion is something that you will encounter in your life, but you must not let it control you or fuel you, you must make sure you are in control and you don't let it make your decisions for you," Cade knew he need not spend much time on that point, so he moved on, "Chaos yet harmony, now I must ask you what you mean by the phrase 'the basic level of chaos'?"
"The galaxy and it's inhabitants are inhertintly chaotic. I don't mean that in a bad way but people are all different so there will always be some conflict or in other words chaos. If people did not cause chaos or dissagree than they would be no better than machines. So being living things with different veiws on life will always cause chaos as I see it." Refel wondered if he was right or wrong.
"Yes, I understand that, but you implied that this 'basic level of chaos' will cause harmony, and I don't really understand what you're getting at. Are you saying that due to the chaotic nature of the galaxy, it is in fact harmonious because if we lived in true harmony life would be quite pointless?"
"It's an...interesting way of putting it to be sure," he said, "but I think that line of the code is telling us that, while there will always be chaos due to the clashing nature of different people but in the midst of it we should strive to create harmony and bring balance to conflict, do you see?"
He assumed he did before moving on once more, "and to the last line, Death, yet the Force. Your analysis of this is perhaps the most confusing. You said that 'death is there, but it is essentially the Force, just like life.' Could you please expand upon that and explain what you mean?" Asked Cade, this was an interesting perception, but Cade wanted to see how and why he thought this.
He assumed he did before moving on once more, "and to the last line, Death, yet the Force. Your analysis of this is perhaps the most confusing. You said that 'death is there, but it is essentially the Force, just like life.' Could you please expand upon that and explain what you mean?" Asked Cade, this was an interesting perception, but Cade wanted to see how and why he thought this.
"Well the Force is everything life, death and they are all natural and even good. While death may seem bad or evil it is not if not for death how would you know you are living and if you were the Galaxy would soon overpopulate the Force is full of checks and balances. Death is the opposite of birth and it allows birth to happen without throwing the Galaxy off balance, and the Force is connected to every living being so when you die your "spirit" you could say joins with the Force that surrounds us. Death is a natural part of life and it should be rejoiced not shunned." Refel hoped he had made his point.
"Hmmm...parts of that are true and some parts a little...less so," said Cade, "you are right in thinking that you join with the Force when you die. For indeed that is what the last line of the code means, it is to remind us that in death we become one with the Force. However, I would hardly say the Force regulates life and death. Indeed it guides people through their lives, but it does not decree what is to happen. We still make our own choices, the Force just helps us make an informed decision. It does not decide when we shall die in terms of the galaxy becoming overpopulated. And death is hardly a reminder that we are alive, for it is the end of life; if you only realise youa re alive as you die then surely life has been wasted upon you? Do you understand the code more clearly now, or are there any parts wou are unsure of?"