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| Kanji - Mushin, or "No Mind" |
"Becoming Batman": for Christmas, my wife and I had a great epiphany - get the boys Kindles so that they'll download books and read. However, the funny thing was they bought me a Kindle as well! Awkward and humorous simultaneously...
I saw the book and it was one of the first I downloaded to my new device (yes, new. I still have an affinity to the pulp-paper-analog version, despite the Star Trek influence).
This was an exceptionally good read, with only one typo - exallant when I think the writer meant 'excellent' - and a good introduction to science, scientific terminology/concepts in biology, genetics, chemistry, and physics principles: Pressure, Work, Power, Impulse, Leverage, Center of Gravity, etc. It was good to see a mention of Dr. Ron McNair, who did a lot of research - not only into his specialty of Lasers - but also on the Physics of Karate.
The embed below is a figure I found in the book that basically steps you through the steps to what ancients referred to as Mushin, or "No Mind" (The Last Samurai referenced in the book as example).
The Kanji above is the "no mind" symbol that has many outside of martial arts and science...alarmed.
I think the term is like the use of Dark Matter: at the time, it was the only description that made sense, and like the astrophysics analogy, it was an admittance of the ignorance of ancient warriors. Dark Matter is "an admittance of our own ignorance":
Princeton University astrophysicist Michael Strauss: "Of course, we don't understand that picture—we don't know what dark energy is, and we don't know what dark matter is."
Cerebral Cortex, Basil Ganglia and Cerebellum didn't exist in the Japanese lexicon then. It also shows: whatever you work at, you can become expert at, be it fictional super hero exploits, martial artist or scientist!
Related link: The Daily Beast - Buff Your Brain
Princeton University astrophysicist Michael Strauss: "Of course, we don't understand that picture—we don't know what dark energy is, and we don't know what dark matter is."
Cerebral Cortex, Basil Ganglia and Cerebellum didn't exist in the Japanese lexicon then. It also shows: whatever you work at, you can become expert at, be it fictional super hero exploits, martial artist or scientist!
Related link: The Daily Beast - Buff Your Brain
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