ronin

Walking in solitude,
weeping my lot,
I take the roads that come,
telling my urgent longings to my only one,
through whom the blessings of my soul increase.
--Garcilaso
(Quoted in
The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross)

Though this could be interpreted as "sad" or as "lonely," it is not so. Nor is "my only one" a human lover. This is the expression of one who walks with God, whose heart and soul are open, vulnerable to the "only one, through whom the blessings of (his) soul increase." Like Enoch of old, he "walks with God and is no more." God, in this case, is not a figment nor an image, but a living breathing reality, the cosmos itself which births us all and which we enliven in return.

In taking "the roads that come," the roads of the cosmos, not the societal highways walked only through rigid corpse-like convention, the ronin is infinitely malleable, shaped through merge with the will and flowing energy of the cosmos itself.