Lesson 3 – Part 3: A Meditation for Jedi – I Am a Jedi
Original journal entry from June 21, 2025 – A personal meditation titled “A Meditation for Jedi” as part of Lesson 3: Introduction to Temple Doctrine. This was my heartfelt declaration and expansion of the Jedi Code (including the Peace Prayer lines), affirming my identity as a Jedi and how these principles guide daily life, forgiveness, love, and eternity.
I am a Jedi, an instrument of peace;
As a Jedi, I inherently carry peace everywhere I go. I am naturally a peace bringer and a peace keeper.
Where there is hatred I shall bring love;
It is my objective to mediate and find commonality instead of differences.
Where there is injury, pardon;
Forgiveness is freedom for the one who has been injured. The laws of man dictate punishment where laws have been broken while the law of the spirit seeks healing through pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith;
The peace I carry looks at impossibilities and sees opportunities.
Where there is despair, hope;
The glass is not half empty but half full. Focus on what is instead of what is lacking.
Where there is darkness, light;
This is my favorite one... The shadow is proof of the light! Darkness cannot dispel darkness, only the light can. And darkness cannot dispel the light – use the light to dispel the darkness!
And where there is sadness, joy.
Sadness is temporary. Seasons of grieving and sadness are natural and healthy but they are not final. Sadness will eventually be replaced by joy.
I am a Jedi.
Being a Jedi encompasses all of these things and the following things as well. All that I have stated so far confirm that I am a Jedi. I am doubling down and will state a few more things, again, confirming that I am a Jedi.
I shall never seek so much to be consoled as to console;
It is not what I can receive from others that I am searching for but rather, what I can bring. Is someone struggling with sadness? I seek to help by carrying the burden and join in moving toward joy, even if it is on a little bit at a time.
To be understood as to understand;
It is important to be clear and to seek to be detailed enough in my communication that others understand what I am saying. And it is equally important to seek to understand others in the same way. Sometimes, my understanding the other leads to them understanding me.
To be loved as to love;
To love one another is a choice. Whether the love is reciprocal does not control my choice to love. I want to be loved. I know that I am loved. However, these are independent from each other. And yet, when I am full of love, it is easier to give from what I have. Is it possible to give something that I do not have? Therefore, making the choice to love indicates that I have love, even when it seems non-existent.
For it is in giving that we receive;
Is it more blessed to give than to receive? The receiver receives what is given, while the giver receives the a spiritual blessing.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
A person who lives with an attitude of pardoning will build around themselves an environment of pardoning. And on the day that they have a need for being pardoned they will receive it.
And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
On the timeline of eternity, life is less than a vapor that is there one day and gone the next. I am an eternal spirit who has a soul and temporarily lives in this body. When the body dies, I will return to eternity.
The Force is with me always, for I am a Jedi.
The Force is in me and I am in the Force. The Force is the vital energy of life that is in and flows through all living things. As a Jedi, I am conscious of the Force being all around and in everything around me, and I flow with the Force. I am with the Force. The Force is with me. Always.
Umalohókan
House of Twin Suns
TM: Carlos Martinez
"You don't have to see the whole staircase just to take the first step."
(Signature links to IP Journal, Apprentice Journal, A.div Journal, and Degree Tracker omitted for brevity — these were forum navigation links at the time.)
The following user(s) said Thank You: RosalynJ, Griffin
Looking back now: This meditation felt like a declaration of identity — taking the Jedi Code and Peace Prayer and making them my own. It was a moment of doubling down on who I was becoming through the program, blending doctrine with personal conviction and eternal perspective.