YODA
A long-lived Jedi Master, Yoda is
the conduit for the
rebirth of the nearly-vanished Jedi
Knights. For more
than 800 years, the green
being has trained Jedi Knights
in the
ways of the Force, but rarely has he faced such a challenge as the
young Luke Skywalker.
By the time Luke encounters
him in the bogs of Dagobah, Yoda is nearly 900 years old and walks
stooped over
with the help of a gimer stick.
He subsists on things that
nature offers him, eating plants
and fruits and fungi, and
building his home of mud, sticks and stones.
Yoda's path
to Jedi wisdom seems simple, yet profound.
He makes his students unlearn what
they had been
taught, helping them to tune in
to the subtle world
around them to learn its truths.
"A Jedi uses the
Force for knowledge. Never for attack,"
he tells them.
Yoda lectures young Skywalker about the Force while
Luke performs rigorous physical
and mental exercises.
Yoda especially cautions him against
the easy path of
anger and the lure of the dark side
of the Force.