Journey - Not the Destination

(Make a note that this is the same as the following post with some differences.. someone copied someone.. I don't know which is which)


Journey - Not the Destination
Baal Legato
A Jedi can perform many maneuvers which can not be performed by any other being.

To name an example, the Jedi is able to jump higher than any normal being: * Luke Skywalker uses this ability several times as he fell into the carbon freezing chamber in Cloud City. Suddenly after realizing what happened, he leaps himself stright up into the air and finds a hold on a coulpe of pipes around 20 feet above the pit's ground.
* Obi-Wan Kenobi is able to jump about 30 feet high to continue his battle with Darth Maul. Note that he jumps that high that he can land on his feet at the higher level of the catwalks without the need to climb it up or get a hold like Luke had to do. And besides this, he moves for about 15 or 20 feet again through the air over Darth Maul to surprise the dark lord and eleminate him.

Another ability is to have extended senses and a visionaire sight of the future.

* You heard that no human being is able to conduct a podrace, but Anakin Skywalker does this as a hobby - not being aware of his abilities
. * Qui-Gon Jinn himself used to snatch the long tongue of Jar Jar Binks in Anakin's home while eating dinner.
* Luke Skywalker was able to deflect the blaster shots from his enemies on Jabba's Sail Barge and in the woods of Endor. He was not perfect in doing this action, but he was still learning. Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn performed this action high-skilled through their hard training.
* To see the far future itself is more difficult than to realize and grasp this intuitional knowledge of the living Force. Yoda had not much success in seeing the future of Han and Leia on Dagobah, while he had a straight idea of the future of Anakin as "no good". But then, if you remember, Yoda was able to fore-shadow the future when he was on Dathomir as he spoke of Luke Skywalker as he would return a sort of order to the planet in several hundred years.

But there are more general abilities like the moving and alternating the nature.

A Jedi has the ability to move practically any object through the use of the Force.

* Yoda moved Luke's ship on Dagobah out of the swamp.
* Luke was able to propel his lightsaber several times into his hand - in the ice-cave on Hoth, and on Jabba's Sail Barge on Tatooine.

But the Force movement power done by the Jedi applies differently sometimes.

* Obi-Wan Kenobi and Qui-Gon Jinn were fighting the Battledroids on the Federation Commandship. There, Obi-Wan used his powers to push the droids hard away, resulting in the destruction of the droids as they smash into small pieces even before they hit the ground.
* As Qui-Gon Jinn is nearly finished with the rescue of Queen Amidala in the streets of Naboo, he disarms his lightsaber and raises his hand to throw two Battledroids against the wall. There he does it smooth and calm, but hard in the result because he allows the Force to penetrate the droids longer than the quick strike of Obi-Wan Kenobi. The droids break when hitting the wall, and not before it.

You see that there is a quick and hard way, but as well a long and calm way to use the Force.

In the end, a Jedi can push or pull objects using the force.

Even the darkest knights like Darth Maul used this power to push opponents a few times during the duels. Maul used a destroyed Battledroid to trigger a doorlock, and Luke used the stone (or skull?) in the Rancor pit to throw it straight at the doorlock, too.

Darth Vader himself used to rip several devices and parts out of the walls and floor to throw them at Luke Skywalker while he stood silently and calm while watching over his son in Cloud City on Bespin.



Mind Tricks, as many people call this skill, are used quite frequently by the Jedi. It is often seen as a step to the dark side when you push the mind of another being too far, and that is the reason why Jedi must use this skill only when there is no other way. You see Obi-Wan Kenobi waving his hand at the Stormtroopers in Mos Eisley as he ordered them to let them pass.

Qui-Gon Jinn used this skill several times in Ooth Gunga and on Tatooine.

But these mind tricks do not work on everyone. It is apparent that some races of creatures such as the Hutts or Toydarians are immune to the mind tricks and that they only work on the weak-minded.

As Obi-Wan Kenobi said, "The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded." However, the Hutts might not be resistant to mind tricks. It appears that Jabba was definately not a weak-minded being...

There is one question that remains: Why do Jedi use gestures when ordering the weak-minded? Personally, I believe that this is just a sign that George Lucas used in his movies to show that the Force is used, but of course, people disagree with me here and say that it is required for a conjunction of mind and body, because one cannot be without the other. This reminds me of the Dark and the Light... one cannot be without the other.



But as next, there is a way to empower the body:

Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon used an incredible speed to evade the destroyer droids on the Federation battleship.

The ability to deflect the blaster shots requires a high concentration of your body, too. Without this inner strength, even the sight of the future would not be helpful.

Now there is the ability to have a strong Concentration. It will allow the Jedi to concentrate hard and focus on a task at hand. It is in the category of the empowerment of your body, it will give the Jedi more ability to accomplish a task. Life is a journey, not a destination, such also is the way of becoming a Jedi. Don't concern yourself with when you will be a Jedi, instead concern yourself with what can I do today that is worthy of a Jedi.
One must walk before they fly.

-Baal Legato