Mind Manipulation. Dr. Haha Lung

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СКАЧАТЬ mental challenges, not the least of which was the stress of being under the constant threat of capture, torture, and death from overwhelming numbers of samurai invaders. Yet the shinobi-ninja overcame these challenges through the use of seishinshugi, literally mind over matter.

      Medieval ninja students began by learning the basic traditional and technical aspects of their chosen craft in order to survive. But, in order to master their craft, the ninja student had to pass beyond mere regurgitation of lessons, beyond mere repetition of technical physical skills.

      Their first step was wiping their minds clear of psychological hindrances and mind filters (doubts, phobias, unresolved trauma, and prejudices), thus unleashing the endless potential and natural flow of the unclouded mind.

      Likewise, we today need to discover our own filters, those mental programming glitches that prevent us from seeing the world clearly.

      For survival, we must find these potentially fatal faults and mental fissures in our minds before our enemies do.

      Seishinshugi: Mind over Matter

      “All things are ready, if our minds be so.”

      —Shakespeare, King Henry V

      Physical circumstances all too often overpower the mind. In the face of overwhelming force or impossible odds, confusion, doubts, and fear creep in and we falter. Doubt is the beginning of defeat.

      Such doubts and fears amount to stains on the mirror of our minds, a mirror that should perfectly reflect the world around us but which, instead, reflects imperfectly because of these stains on its surface. Adroit mind-slayers deliberately insert confusion, doubt and fear into the minds of their foes, purposely staining the foe’s mind-mirror in order to make that foe “see” an imperfect reflection of the world.

      An imperfect reflection of the world around them causes people to act on incorrect information. Calculated on incorrect intelligence, an enterprise cannot but fail.

      In order to remain in a constant state of readiness to do battle, be it physical battle or a no-less-lethal mental challenge, ninja cultivated makoto, the stainless mind. Makoto is a balanced state of mind allowing us to remain calm even in the most trying of circumstance.

      The development of makoto consists of the active cultivation and practice of two skills: haragei (awareness), and rinkioken (adaptability).

      Awareness

      Medieval ninja practiced purposeful awareness of all five known senses (sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch) as their first line of defense, as well as their first choice of offensive weapons when aggression was called for.

      As children, we used all our senses to explore the world around us. As we grew older, however, our senses began to dull. For most adults, the use of the senses is not balanced—that is, we tend to favor one or more of our senses, while neglecting the others.

      Unlike the average person, mind-slayers practice the full use of all five senses to the point that they notice every shift in weight; hear each slight hesitation of doubt in a person’s voice; feel that slight tremble in another when shaking hands or brushing against him. The most accomplished of these mind-slayers can literally “smell” doubt and fear in another person. Used to their fullest, in concert with one another, the five known senses become greater than the sum of their parts, merging to create a sixth, extrasensory sense of awareness.

      The effect of using their five trained senses together gave the impression to indolent and uninitiated outsiders that ninja mind-slayers possessed magic powers. Like modern mind manipulators, medieval ninja did nothing to discourage this belief.

      When you practice being more attuned to the subtlety and nuance of your environment, and to the subconscious clues given off by others, it will appear to others that you possess magical extrasensory abilities though, in actuality, all you are doing is using to the fullest the same five senses we all possess but all too often take for granted.

      And, if human beings do possess a long dormant and denied ESP—a sixth sense—what better way to develop it than by disciplining and making full use of our first five?

      Adaptability

      “Develop intuitive judgement and

      understanding for everything . . .

      Perceive those things which cannot be seen . . .

      Pay attention even to trifles.”

      —Miyamoto Musashi

      The ruling samurai of medieval Japan adhered to the rigid bushido code that dictated chivalry in civilian life and outlined restrictive rules when it came to personal combat between equals.

      If medieval ninja had insisted on thinking and acting in the same manner as the rest of feudal Japanese society, the great ninja masters of Iga and Koga would not have survived to pass their secrets of success along to us.

      The greatest of these ninja secrets of success was their rinkioken.

      Ninja warriors were trained to think on their feet, to improvise rather than to adhere to a rigid game plan. Likewise, ninja sennin trained to see and think in unconventional, non-linear fashion in order to be able to enter at will a heightened state of calm awareness that allowed them to function at their peak physical and mental level. This level of awareness is known as entering the Zen-zone.

      The Zen-zone is that level of functioning where stainless mental awareness (makoto) and physical awareness merge, allowing us to instantly and effortlessly adapt to rapidly shifting circumstance.

      Master mind-slayers operate from this Zen-zone, remaining balanced and aware—guarding the walls of their own mind castles while constantly alert for any sign of weakness in a foe’s mind defenses.

      ENDNOTE

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      Hooper, Judith and Dick Teresi. The Three-Pound Universe. New York: Macmillan, 1986.

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