Posted on 09/07/2009 3:26:44 PM PDT by blueglass
Not long ago at Fort Bragg, N.C., the country's largest military base, seven soldiers sat in a semi-circle, lights dimmed, eyes closed, two fingertips lightly pressed beneath their belly buttons to activate their "core." Electronic music thumped as the soldiers tried to silence their thoughts, the key to Warrior Mind Training, a form of meditation slowly making inroads on military bases across the country. Think military and you think macho, not meditation, but that's about to change now that the Army intends to train its 1.1 million soldiers in the art of mental toughness.
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" Electronic music thumped as the soldiers tried to silence their thoughts, the key to Warrior Mind Training"
"She also delved into the science behind mind training to analyze how meditation tactics could help treat - and maybe even help prevent - post-traumatic stress disorder"
"Mind training"-- I love it. This is simply the government preparing our troops to fight against us. They know how difficult it would be for brothers and sisters to turn against brothers and sisters so "mind training" (brainwashing) is needed to "silence their thoughts". Of ocurse, Obama's "civilian defense force" won't need any of this mental "training", because they already "damn America", and hate us, so they will relish in smashing and burning things. But the decent ones, they will need their minds made right.
I seriously doubt a little session of Zen meditation is going to turn you into a jackbooted thug.
Since when did Samurai have thumping electronic music?
Agreed.
I think you may be reading too much into this. It’s not like our troops are being programmed. From what I read, it’s more a sort of mental training to improve concentration.
How many 100s of years kicking the ass of the enemy and some schmuck comes along with something new to “improve” our soldiers. Sounds like left wing lunitic suggestions to the end of valueless results.
Suppress this stupid BS NOW.
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Zen is clearly neither American nor Christian, so then the question is what will it do, who is promoting it among our military and why?
And since it’s faggy, new-age mind control, I like the way they call it “Warrior” training, and “mental toughness”, when in reality it takes away your ability to think. I like my mind the way it is.
Cup of coffee works for me.
“Many tens of millions of other Americans know these techniques already. “
Never tried them. Do they work?
“two fingertips lightly pressed beneath their belly buttons to activate their “core.”
Shwing!
Giggety giggety!
I wonder how many of them are just going along and telling nasty jokes about it later...
Our Marines, Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen, achieve “mental toughness” through their rigorous training and combat experience.
This sort of mind control experimentation has the odor of New Age gobbledygook and Ivan Pavlov.
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This really could cut either way. I studied judo when I was in the army—not officially, but with a couple of my buddies who decided it would be fun to do.
Zen can either be religious, or it can simply be a matter of clearing the mind to fight better. Breathing exercises, concentration, emptying the mind—not bad in themselves, although they could be misused.
As for the thumping electronic music, that sounds like a load of cr*p.
I’d be more concerned to know what the career sergeants make of this. They are the guys who are supposed to make sure that the troops are kept fit and are ready to fight. Are they being consulted? This sounds suspiciously like some sort of amateur interference with the normal chain of command. I doubt whether these zen mistresses will be going out into the field with the troops.
In the Japanese garden there is the sound of the Water, the Wind in the trees
and the wooden Bonk of the Shishi odoshi. (Deer Scarer)
All things to Focus on.
My reference was to Zen meditation practices, not to Zen. Matthew 6 covers the waterfront on meditative practice. Jonah also appears to have used some pretty standard meditative practices common to modern Zen practices.
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