That is the question...I don't know for certain but I know what I feel. I think it has something to do with living a life that is congruent with serving a purpose that is larger then your individual self. Doing what you know to be right, true, and loving in all circumstances especially when it is difficult. Not thinking about how what you do will percieved by others in terms of ego gradification, but only in terms of if you are making a greater contribution to society. It is allowing your small self to be swallowed by your larger self to do something profound, unique, and noble. We all know those examples Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jesus, Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa and many others. It is easy to be supports of them now, at a distance, when everyone agrees what they did was needed, but it is always so much harder to be a person in those times and those situations. Gandhi, MLK, and Jesus were all killed for starters, Mandela spent 17 years in prison with horrific torture and Mother Theresa spent much of her life in what she called a spiritual darkness not knowing if god was still with her while she continued her work in the poorest slums in India and near starvation and sickness herself due to lack of provisions.
So this begs the question what is an Urban Samurai? I believe it is someone who seeks to live for a more noble cause regardless of the circumstances and the cost. I don't think that we warriors must always suffer, that is not my point, but to be noted that sometimes you do suffer when you fight for something outside the norm...but the suffering is far less great then knowing that you are not doing what you need to do. What you are called to do. If you are making progress and pushing for change that makes people uncomfortable because it threatens their self and what they know to be true. So check yourself, make sure you are living the big dream and not the small dream...and that every action is congruent with the larger self of love and transformation.
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