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VANGUARD CORE: III | KURAI NO SANKO
The Kurai No Sanko militant education program is ideally suited for exceptional individuals with self-set benchmarks of extreme success, track records of high performance, and minimum viable ("MV") human capital as assessed by Risk Division.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
FROM THE DESK OF IVAN THRONE
I bid you welcome, and offer power.
The Kurai No Sanko program from Throne Dynamics is a very special offering.
Consisting of nine comprehensive lessons, the program introduces ninja methodologies with my own interpretation and use of the methods. It draws on historical sources such as the Go Rin No Sho of Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin, the Bansenshukai of Fujibayashi Yasutake, and other historic works.
Analysis and application of the method is then dissected through the lens of my long family history, and our own proprietary methods of intergenerational survival.
Lastly, I walk you through our dissection of the ninja methodology from the mindset of the dark triad of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy as presented through my own philosophy bestseller The Nine Laws.
The British Crown ruled the wide world and established dominance in Asia.
The ninja warriors of old did not hesitate, and they could not be stopped.
We are going to take a tour, here, from the dark and difficult hidden places of ancient Japan, through the bloody towers of England, and into sharp and effective application by the dark triad in our digital age.
Prepare yourself for an extraordinary look into nearly a thousand years of the mindset that delivered absolute power and mobility across the earth. You will learn from this, and enter the world of strategic insight and delivery for war.
Much love, honor, and respect,
Ivan Throne, Chief Executive Manager
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INTRODUCTION
This Academy Level 2 material is designed to provide you a working introduction to the basics of the Kurai No Sanko program and the methodologies of the ninja for delivery of outcomes in statecraft.
Throne Dynamics has a unique and sharp advantage for you.
The Kurai No Sanko program is used by military, law enforcement, political, and economic leaders with good reason.
The principles of absolute victory without equivocation or apology are profound.
Whether in response to genocide by feral warlords and vicious samurai armies, or as counsel to the imperial rulers of the greatest empire in human history - the work is the same:
Survival, momentum, and triumph.
Manhood, war, and salvation.
Fealty, cruelty, and majesty.
Today as the Third World War breaks out and nations collapse in fire across the globe, the lessons and training of the Kurai No Sanko program are ever more relevant and compelling.
Take to heart the admonitions of those who survived dreadful epochs and challenges of history.
Learn the methods used to solidify the power and reach of dread lords in history.
Study the process and perspective of rulers and statecraft without cease.
Understand that this knowledge is more than mere methodologies; it provides the practitioner with the means to not just guide history as it unfolds in forward flow, but to perceive with surety the movements of kings, and thereby remain ahead of the inevitable massacres and devastations that follow.
Read carefully, absorb fully, and do not hesitate to grow. You will need that growth, to survive this tumultuous age.
Fulfill the same training exercise at the end of every scroll in this program.
Maintain grave sincerity throughout.
THE FIRST SCROLL: PART 1
Purity of heart.
真心 MAGOKORO
The irreplaceable framework of this knowledge base begins with the modern interpretation of what some call the dark triad traits of personality.
These are narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy.
In order to facilitate your understanding of this program within the proper context, and a fuller understanding of the teaching perspective, my work The Nine Laws is a necessary resource. Reliance upon social justice or political correctness when assessing the sharpest manifestation of the human being is a ridiculous absence of scholarship.
Going further, the perspective of those in service to the Crown was, and is, precisely that: service to the Crown and everything that entails. Wealth, family name, all of it was the munificence of the Sovereign and for most of history the executions were barbaric for disloyalty or disappointment.
At last in the end we have the ninja of feudal Japan, where constant military barrage of death and attack and seizure of suzerainty were the norm for centuries upon centuries, and the reality of victory in conflict became the truth of a constant blade over the heart.
The first lesson of the ninja is one you must understand at all three levels.
The ninja speak of it as 真心 magokoro, or “purity of heart”. The servant of the Crown acknowledges his feudal lord. The Dark Triad Man uses it to advance his mission.
Today, that mission is rarely driven by lord or family.
Today, your mission is up to you.
Magokoro must be present:
Ninpo ikkan magokoro ni masare!
"Ninja law consistently applied: pure heart is primary."
The Way of Heaven.
天道 TEN DŌ
The ninja speak of the pure heart as being like a mirror.
It reflects back without hesitation, with no gap in timing or perfection, a reflection of what is experienced by Creation itself with no attachment of desire.
This is both a very empty heart, and a very full heart, tumbled and turned.
The author of the Bansenshukai, the most infamous of the ninja field manuals, stressed the crucial nature of magokoro as the guiding principle of our agents. Absent this principle, he notes, it becomes a manual for common criminals to abuse the people.
Without purity of heart behind the hand of the king, the rule in his land becomes disordered and leads to conspiracies and rebellions.
Without purity of heart behind the application of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy in the world, much damage is done by the uneducated and undisciplined.
Therefore you must first cultivate this concept of purity of heart.
It is fatally important and will bring you closer to Heaven.
That is a place of power, for the Divine protects its own.
This is the Way of Heaven!
Contempt for the Way of Heaven will lead you to disaster.
That disaster will be deserved.
The ninja devote themselves with this vow:
Chi ha yaburu, kami no oshie watoko shie ne, tada shiki kokoro,mi wo ma mo ru ran!
"Teaching of Divine is forever / right heart will protect you.”
Royal fountain.
主君の泉 SHU NO KUN
Why is such devotion to the Way so important?
Do not think Heaven fails to take your heart into account. Karma is impersonal and does not spare.
Thus the correct heart (seishin) and correct mind (seii) are established.
It is similar in service to the Crown.
The Sovereign first of all is the fount of honor in the land, and the living representation of both the State and its connection to Heaven. As adherence and worship of the laws of God are of primary import in the conduct of the king, so too is recognition of the sacred role of anointed ruler of the realm by grace of God.
Your preference for alternate political architecture of the State is irrelevant to the reality of the perspective I communicate. This may be difficult to grasp at first.
Above all, the agent on a penetration mission into the camp of the adversary, the bishop listening to the whispered last words of a dying king, the modern sovereign individual who gazes across the world and seeks to bend it to his will…You must understand what has driven the rise and fall of governments, the rule and passing of kings, the shames and glories of dynasties, the heights and crashes of empires.
You must deeply appreciate the mindset their builders possess, demand, and implement:
Seeing reality for what it is, and nothing else.
This is also the Way of Heaven!
Violation of the Way of Heaven will hurtle you into illusion.
You will drag your Sovereign to destruction, as HM King Charles II warned:
For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers’.
HM CHARLES II OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND
Will and vow.
意志 I SHI
Not my will, but Thine be done.
Do you understand this concept?
Fujibayashi Yasutake explained the crucial importance of this, and the horrific consequences for failure to integrate according to the Way, in his Bansenshukai field manual:
You should know that heaven and your body and mind are one thing. Therefore, when you pledge any of your deeds or words to the principles, it is as if you pledge this promise to heaven. So, if you go against the principles, it is the same as if you go against heaven.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
“Not my will, but thine be done.”
Do you understand this concept?
It applies to the Will of Heaven that drives the ninja into unstoppable success.
It applies to the love and honor of the Crown in service as a dread lord.
It applies to the sovereign individual who decides what to seize and what to leave in this incredible, beautiful, terrifyingly connected world we have created.
Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin was also explicit in his Go Rin No Sho treatise:
In the void is virtue, and no evil.
Wisdom exists, principle exists, the way exists.
Spirit is Void.
GO RIN NO SHO
THE FIRST SCROLL: PART 2
Justice.
正義 MASAYOSHI
Toshitsugu Takamatsu of the Togakure Ryū, known and feared to the end of his life as Mōko no Tora, the Mongolian Tiger, did not equivocate on the crucial nature of divine power in his Ninjutsu Hiketsu Bun:
This is to know tendo, “the Way of Heaven.”
The truth of Heaven excludes all evil spirits and is absolutely correct.
People must have faith.
This is the only justice which exists in Heaven and in people.
If a person is honest, virtuous and faithful, he is walking on “the path of Heaven”.
When he goes with the path of heaven, he is following the will of Heaven.
This is the mind and eyes of God.
Therefore a ninja has to be a sensible and righteous person.
TOSHITSUGU TAKAMATSU
A man who does not place his loyalty to his sovereign lord over his own life does not properly serve his lord, in either the distant past of Japan, the cold bloody towers of England, or the global skyscraping behemoth that humanity represents today.
In the old days you were born in service to your lord.
As your family rose and the times changed, you became broker of alliances.
Today it is you who stands at the crossroad, as sovereign lord of your own life.
Structure well with purity of heart.
Or you will crash.
And take others with you.
That is a degradation of the Way, offensive to Heaven, and the propagation of collapse in the dark world, a very dangerous thing to do by any man who wishes success.
Take care with your thoughts, decisions, and words.
The throne.
位 KURAI
It is the duty of a wise retainer of the Crown to bear always in mind that fealty to God and fealty to the Crown may collide. Consequences of collision with the Crown can result in destruction of the family line and collision with God brings disaster.
Identifying the path forward for survival of the family is paramount. You bear direct personal responsibility for successful navigation through these waters and delivery to the other side of the cycle of men and states. Collision of your conscience and your oath is soul-wrenching and will sicken the rule of the sovereign and consequently administration of the realm.
Determine your positions of conscience without anxiety and communicate with swift humility to the Sovereign. Cruelty from kings is less typical towards those who demonstrate correct fealty.
It is not loss of life or status that is concern, but loss to the Sovereign of your future counsel if it is disregarded. That increases danger for the nation.
Thus your counsel and heart must first conform to God, only then to the ears of the king:
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
SIR THOMAS MORE
Ordered discipline.
秩序 CHITSUJO
How can we speak of purity of heart, connection to God, and yet through the terrifying penultimate of the dark triad of personality? How can we contemplate aligning the best of the human spirit with what is so often described as the cruel and hungry antithesis to it?
Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy.
Again, if you have not read The Nine Laws you are at a disadvantage. It is your responsibility, if you wish to fully profit this program, to acquire that book and absorb it well as a foundational volume.
For the Kurai no Sanko program, we are using the three traits based on two measures within each.
The first measure is strength of trait.
Is a person merely distant, or are they utterly immune to empathy? How powerful is the trait in the person, and what level of impact can it bring to bear at critical moments?
The second measure is regulation of trait.
Is the person well disciplined, precise, and successful? Are they subject to regular cycles of destruction from poor decisions and consequences? What is their competence?
Strength is competent to the degree it regulates.
Where the traits are present with strength, greater regulation is required. Where traits are weaker, less regulation suffices.
How does the modern dark triad in the modern age apply purity of heart to this?
Dysregulation deviates from the Way of Heaven.
This is a crucial metric that every man must observe consistently.
Where are you dysregulated?
Throttle back and return to God, or get a better grip.
This is where blunt words from Ivan Throne are the closure of the lesson.
I am not here to tell you nice things. And this initial issue of the Kurai no Sanko program is specifically designed to set your mind on the correct framing of the knowledge I share.
Using the skills of the ninja for gross material wealth and inconsiderate fame is banditry and an offense against natural justice.
Pushing the hands of the Sovereign from a broken conscience and spoiled greed brings disaster to the kingdom and destruction of the family.
Deviating from discipline, consistency and truth is corrosive infection of evil into the naïve heart of the human being and the collapse of his efforts.
You will require magokoro to absorb this program without damage.
Damage to you, damage to your loved ones, damage to your enterprises, concerns, and future.
For this reason you are to spend the next week in repentant inner reorganization. I do not speak of repentance as a form of “guilt” or “acknowledgement of sin” but in the very simple terms of returning your face to God and Heaven, whatever form of immortal justice you believe in.
If you cannot turn your face to God, knowing what works you do as a human being, without terror in the just consequences that Heaven will decree upon you, you are ill-prepared for this program.
Sober purpose.
地道 JI MICHI
This concludes the first of the Kurai no Sanko scrolls.
I want you to think very carefully about your own purity of heart.
Today we are faced with an unending digital distraction from this purity of heart, and the ability to connect with Heaven is profoundly integral to the process of success and power.
Be aware and consistently take moments to reconnect with the divine.
As we move forward in this material, there will be concepts of warfare that may generate unease, or concern for the depths of action that are taken by kings and States.
This is how the dark world has always been, and ever will be.
Thus your responsibility is to be a light of Heaven in the darkness, whether as regulation of self into a role model for brothers, or a man who literally moves through life and death in the dark. Kings will always need dread lords, and the wise counsel they bring.
The story is as old as time and will never go away.
The correct mind and correct heart are the mind and eyes of God.
That, too, is as old as time and will be with us forever.
Look well, o wolves!
More is coming in the dark.
Do not falter.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen these lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply the methods?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
THE SECOND SCROLL
Bag reversal.
袋返しの術 FUKUROGAESHI NO JUTSU
The next lesson we will review is a method known as fukurogaeshi no jutsu.
袋返しの術 “bag reversal method” involves penetration of the target at two simultaneous levels: within command, and also in tactical officer staffing, for dual engagement and control.
Through dual penetration by ninja agents at the command and execution levels of the adversary, its strategies and tactics can be tumbled and turned into the correct outcomes that serve the ninja.
When gaps in the adversary’s tactics are augmented by innocent appearing strategic recommendations, the adversary’s general can be led into foolish presentation and collapse.
Where strategic intentions of the adversary’s general are communicated directly to ninja responsible for disruption at the tactical level, confusion and disarray and distrust may be fomented within the ranks of the adversary.
This can be reversed in itself.
Positions of weakness in the adversary’s operations can be glossed over in in briefing to senior command, supported by the upper level agent, thus ensuring entry and exit gaps are institutionally maintained.
Fukurogaeshi no jutsu, bag reversal, is a significantly powerful penetration and redirection method.
There is always a bag over the head of the adversary. When it is lifted, the adversary is face to face with the ninja in the person of their commander’s counselor, or representing the tactical officers of the line. When properly understood and applied, fukurogaeshi no jutsu is scalable from individuals as targets to armies, from military commanders to rulers of empires.
Ninja employed in fukurogaeshi no jutsu must be seasoned agents able to work as a team. This method is difficult to disentangle from and often results in loss of agents.
Weigh trajectory and momentum of outcomes against expenditure and be positioned to move:
Ban pen fu kyo!
“Ten thousand changes, no surprise."
From our first lesson on the magokoro purity of heart command for the ninja, let us reflect on the fukurogaeshi no jutsu “bag reversal” method in this lesson.
How serious is the circumstance, where a single operation to penetrate and influence an adversary warrants more than doubling the risk of capture and exposure?
How rare are ninja resources capable of class, wealth, and seniority that can attach themselves personally to the enemy commander?
How valuable are ninja resources capable of reaching tactical command position in adversary forces, and maintaining coherence as an agent?
How much more unusual for these two agents to know each other and have trust, and operate from seamless devotion to the mission of the lord?
Fukurogaeshi no jutsu provides a very powerful method to infect, corrupt, and mislead the adversary into alternate strategic outcomes through manipulation of perspective instability. That instability in the adversary’s perspective results from the kyojutsu tenkan ho “tumble and turn” of perspectives and perception, carried out upon the adversary by two ninja in tandem.
Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin referred to Holding Down A Pillow in his classic Go Rin No Sho treatise:
The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy’s useful actions but allow his useless actions. However, doing this alone is defensive. First, you must act according to the Way, suppressing the enemy’s techniques, foiling his plans and thence command him directly. When you can do this you will be a master of strategy. You must train well and research “holding down a pillow”.
GO RIN NO SHO
The adversary’s general, taking counsel from the ninja concealed at his right hand, issues orders that are carried out by the ninja concealed within the responsible officer ranks.
In this way the natural strategy and operations of the adversary drive them directly into the fate the ninja have determined for them.
This is not a method to be used where spirit to overthrow the adversary is lacking.
“Bag reversal” is designed for serious moments of control from within the structure of the adversary. The lessons of entanglement and enthrallment from The Nine Laws are important to keep in mind:
Mesmerized fascination with people, places and things is a predictable and readily instilled state of hypnotic folly. Learn to infect with enthrallment, and to recognize and extract self.
IVAN THRONE, THE NINE LAWS
Employing fukurogaeshi no jutsu inherently brings enthrallment as the vehicle for control of the adversary. Enthrallment is a two-way street, and the ninja are directed to observe this with care.
This can be tumbled and turned and put to use by your sovereign lord.
Sir Francis Walsingham understood this, and put it to use when Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, was imprisoned by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I.
Known as the “Moor” from his dark complexion and darker character, Sir Francis was also the spymaster for his sovereign lord, and did not stint on ruthless pursuit of the safety and surety of the Crown.
By the time evidence was obtained by Walsingham sufficient to charge Queen Mary with consenting to assassination of his lord, he had not only fully co-opted and installed Queen Mary’s direct advisor, but also the courier of her correspondence and several cypher clerks in between.
This is fukurogaeshi no jutsu.
As accessories to the plot against his feudal lord came and went, Walsingham converted them to double agents or replaced them, utilizing the rejected asset in different ways.
The result of correctly applied fukurogaeshi no jutsu is the death of the enemy lord:
With encouragement from his fellow conspirators, Babington wrote in code to Mary with a detailed plan, unequivocally seeking consent to murder Elizabeth and to free her. Walsingham saw the letter and awaited Mary’s reply. Her main objective was to gain her freedom. If the price of her liberty was Elizabeth’s assassination, she would go along with it and wrote back in code giving her approval. Mary was now caught, and Phelippes wrote a gallows mark on the outside of his deciphered copy before forwarding it to Walsingham.
HER MAJESTY’S SPYMASTER (BUDIANSKY, 2006)
Remember what I spoke of in this lesson: total commitment to overthrow is required for fukurogaeshi no jutsu to be successfully applied.
Consider the gravity of entrapping the neck of a sovereign to a block and axe.
Could you scrawl a gallows mark with pitiless hand on the fate of a ruler ordained by God?
This is the responsibility of fukurogaeshi no jutsu.
This is the reality of the dark world.
We have framed the technique and now we come to the role of familial knowledge.
What does one do to protect one’s lord against fukurogaeshi no jutsu and the introduction of hostile ninja into the strategic and operational environment?
How does one support one’s lord upon exposure of fukurogaeshi no jutsu by the adversary throughout the court and in the ranks?
Espionage.
The integrity of communications for the commander is crucial in any military undertaking.
Understand this well: the surety of the Sovereign and the perpetuation of the Crown is in itself a military undertaking. To lose sight of this is to invite collapse and death of the State and all things within it.
Thus deviations from integrity in communications surrounding the Sovereign are military offenses.
Think well on this and conduct yourself as an officer of the Crown. That is the duty owed to both your feudal lord and the realm.
The surety of the Sovereign and the perpetuation of the Crown outweighs your personal aggrandizement before the realm:
“Despite Walsingham’s success in providing the means to bring Mary down, he was never rewarded by Elizabeth. He lived on until 1590, but she never approved of his shadowy methods with his network of spies continually infiltrating plots against her Crown.”
HER MAJESTY’S SPYMASTER (BUDIANSKY, 2006)
When fukurogaeshi no jutsu is detected within the Court, it must be turned to service or destroyed. Pity is not in play where military perpetuation of State power is required.
The Sovereign is a human being and will operate from that gut basis.
The Sovereign is also a ruler with offended dignity. Failure to appreciate and recognize brings you and the family within blast zone.
The blast zone of the dread lord is where you operate.
It is better for the king to be stripped bare of trusted resources than to place the surety of his person and the perpetuation of his throne within reach of those known as traitors.
Unless key traitors can be maneuvered into submission.
Killing men is easy.
Ruling them is not.
Encourage the ruler to move methodically, carefully, without pity or haste, and with magokoro as we have reviewed in several instances.
Remember this teaching.
Purity of heart also concerns true fealty to one’s sovereign lord.
“True allegiance to the same” is a powerful vow.
What is your true allegiance to?
Are you a “wave man”?
A rōnin 浪人 adrift?
Then ask yourself where you operate.
Are you capable of presenting on the scene of dread lords, unknown to them, and build immediate rapport and relationship and opportunity to begin provision of counsel and the initiation of an open end of fukurogaeshi no jutsu that may connect to a lower half that passes by?
That can bring a business deal to the benefit of all.
Do you have the gravitas and experiential seasoning to present to an organization at the tactical level and provide powerful performance while interfacing with a fukurogaeshi no jutsu agent at the top?
What market conditions can you bring immediately to enterprise decision-makers?
Spun hearts.
We now will review fukurogaeshi no jutsu through the eyes of the individual sovereign, the dark triad of personality. What will narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy teach us of this principle in application?
Again, you must know these terms through my work The Nine Laws or you will be working in the dark without firm footing.
Fukurogaeshi no jutsu is not only for infiltration and toppling kings, or for redirecting armies into collapse and death. The application of this method can be used in beneficial and positive ways. The dark triad does not have a preference for “positive” or “negative” application, and rather prefers “most utilitarian” method in keeping with accurate assessments.
Narcissism is a crucial part of fukurogaeshi no jutsu as the ability to tumble and turn two different visions is fundamental to the method. The vision of reality and potential futures seen by the man deploying the method, and the alternate “bag” vision, combined with trajectory and momentum adjustments from the top and bottom of the decision tree are distinct. In order to maintain authenticity in both visions (for authenticity is what the gut of the ruler follows) a certain depletion of one’s own vision is inescapable. This must be balanced well.
Machiavellianism is the heart of fukurogaeshi no jutsu. It is important to understand the basal concept of Machiavellianism as one that abstains from the gratuitous. If it is not necessary, it is not expended upon. Concealment and manipulation for their own sake are gratuitous, and not Machiavellian. This is why magokoro purity of heart is so ceaselessly essential.
Psychopathy is the driver of correctness for fukurogaeshi no jutsu as the pitiless will to execute, either in establishing a network leading to a beheaded queen, or launching a new business venture and having the ear of both the board and the sales team.
What is the ultimate lesson for the sovereign individual?
Two points of contact equal spin.
You must understand that comprehension of polarities is critical.
What are things spinning between?
The way in is the way out.
To detect fukurogaeshi no jutsu you can look for points of spin.
To employ fukurogaeshi no jutsu you simply establish points of spin.
This is the real world and some things do not ever change.
Spinning is the nature of Creation.
All things can always spin.
If it spins it is a door.
Thus the ninja is not denied entry.
Dread servants of the Crown will discover you.
The dark triad can pull everything within reach.
If you can enter anywhere and pull anything together, does a dread lord have use for you?
Think about that question.
Purity of heart and double penetration.
The polarities of the world!
Mutual depth.
This concludes the second of the Kurai no Sanko program lessons.
I want you to think very carefully about double penetration and purity of heart.
There are a few reasons for this.
First, this becomes an insurance, if you will, that the stupid and the inappropriate will not have access to the depth of the material. Sacred knowledge protects itself.
Churls who wish to speak about “ninja double penetration, man!” will find themselves shut down quickly, and ridiculed. That ensures fukurogaeshi no jutsu does not propagate among fools.
Second, consider the invasive nature of double penetration, and the full commitment that is inherent to a receptive deployment of such an intimately and mutually expressive act.
This works with women, businesses, kings, armies, ventures, and matter itself.
Spinning, inserting, connecting, driving.
I write that depth produces fulfillment. This is also why treason goes deeper than any crime.
Today you are on the cutting edge of the sovereign individual. Whether in service to oath or mission, and with methods proven over a thousand years of bloody conflict, you also face competition today that does not grasp any of these things fully.
There are many advantages to being alive today. Use them well.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
THE THIRD SCROLL
Stomach worm.
蓑虫の術 MINOMUSHI NO JUTSU
Our third lesson will review a ninja method known as minomushi no jutsu.
蓑虫の術 “worm method” involves a servant of the adversary, who is turned to work for the ninja, akin to a worm eating out the stomach of the target.
This is considered an extremely dangerous process.
The Bansenshukai speaks of several different types of men who are best selected for this extraordinarily volatile method. Here are the most recognizable:
The descendant of an innocent retainer who was harshly and unjustly punished by the lord, will hold resentment deep in his spirit.
The man who is skilled, talented, and of good family who is nonetheless passed over for promotion and recognition, will bear resentment in his belly.
The loyal man who has accomplished great things but has been provided only small reward, while his lord stupidly raises evil flatterers to prominence and wealth, will fill his mind with resentment.
The intelligent and skilled man who the lord dislikes and mistreats for fatuous reasons, and is held down from advancement, will feel the ache of resentment in his whole being.
Resentment is a corrosive, destructive, spiraling attachment to illusion.
It is anger and hatred that things are not how they are desired to be.
One who does his duty to his lord while filled continuously with resentment is an explosive, volatile thing that can be careened into the manufacture of disaster for the adversary:
Kajo chikusei!“
Flower heart, bamboo heart”
The dangers of the minomushi no jutsu process should be clear to those who consider the depth of the method, and the very serious outcomes that are almost entirely inevitable.
The subornation of treason is among the most risky efforts any operative can undertake.
The resentment of the minomushi worm agent is not calmed or pacified by his turning into treason and working against his own lord. Rather, that resentment will grow as he enters into internal excuses of how he is “forced” into his actions by the unreasonableness of his lord, and the stress of treason becomes deeper rooted in every aspect of his life.
Is it any wonder that such men cannot be left in place for too long?
How much will that resentment explode if the ninja responsible for running the minomushi worm agent is incompetent or careless?
Minomushi no jutsu is a different process than simply turning a foreign operative into a traitor and thereby gaining access to military plans, or blackmailing a diplomat into revealing sensitive strategies. The essential process of minomushi no jutsu is to turn the worm within the stomach, to let it fester and eat through, and the point is less to obtain intelligence than to precipitate damage, rot, and destruction in the adversary.
Shinryuken Masamitsu Toda of the Togakure Ryū was precise in his instructions to the ninja for how resentment, among other emotions, are most properly handled:
Sorrow, pain and resentment are natural qualities to encounter in life. Therefore work to cultivate the enlightenment of the immovable spirit.
SHINRYUKEN MASAMITSU TODA
Resentment is a natural human experience.
Resentment will take place.
Human beings are poor at cultivating enlightened spirits.
Resentment will curdle.
If resentment is human, and curdled resentment common, how can one prevent treason from taking place in the halls of the lord, or an adversarial ninja fomenting it in the hearts of retainers?
As we go deeper into our review of the minomushi no jutsu method, the answer should become more apparent if you have studied the previous lessons.
Resentment.
Bitter stuff, is it not?
Simmering resentment is poison, just as hatred, envy, and anger are poisons which burn through integrity, values, achievements, and happiness.
The curdled resentment of a retainer is a worm in the stomach, ready to turn and bite its way through the folly, blindness, and disgraceful temper of his lord.
What was the crucial principle of the ninja that we covered in the First Scroll?
Purity of heart.
Magokoro.
When one’s heart is pure and mirrors the purpose of the lord, then treason and collapse will not enter through you into the heart of the realm.
When one’s heart is pure and mirrors the reality of creation, then resentment does not linger in the heart and begin to poison and destroy.
When the lord’s heart is pure and the lord follows the Way of Heaven, the resentments which enable deployment of minomushi no jutsu rarely arise.
But remain vigilant without interruption or inconstancy. It is not possible to absolutely prevent resentment in the hearts of men. Human beings are fallen animals.
The result of correctly applied minomushi no jutsu is the rotten collapse of the enemy lord.
The lord who rewards those who are merely sycophants and flatterers, while turning his scorn on good and loyal men; the lord who unjustly punishes those who have not earned his displeasure; the lord who behaves with foolish immaturity and breeds resentment throughout his realm; these are the lords who create the condition for minomushi no jutsu and the raw material of their own destruction. Roger Mortimer, first Earl of March, who deposed Edward II and took the queen to his bed while acting as regent over the young Edward III, was such a lord:
Accused of assuming royal power and of various other high misdemeanours, he was condemned without trial and hanged at Tyburn on 29 November 1330, his vast estates forfeited to the crown. His body hung at the gallows for two days and nights in full view of the populace.
ROGER MORTIMER
Who was the minomushi no jutsu worm agent for the young King Edward III?
When Mortimer discovered the conspiracy against him, Montagu was brought in for interrogation – along with the king – but gave nothing away. Afterward he supposedly advised Edward to move against his protector, because “It was better that they should eat the dog than that the dog should eat them”. On 19 October 1330, while Mortimer and Isabella were entrenched in Nottingham Castle, the constable of the castle showed Montagu a secret entrance through an underground tunnel. Along with William de Bohun, Robert Ufford, and John Neville and others, he entered the castle, where he met up with the king. A short brawl followed before Mortimer was captured.
EDWARD III (ORMROD, 2013)
Counsel before the throne.
The continuous, conscious, and deliberate adherence of the Sovereign to the will and way of God is a fundamental pillar of the realm without which all things in the kingdom collapse.
Thus the surest place to provide counsel to the Crown is one which guides the trajectory and momentum of the realm, closely observes the rewards and resentments of the of the court, and hears the confessions, doubts and private heart of the Sovereign.
The private chaplain to the king fills this role.
Therefore, does that not make the private chaplain to the king, a target for the worst betrayal the realm can suffer?
Think well on this and understand that in this role of counsel to the Crown, your own heart must maintain clear conscience of duty to God and King, and thereby place your lord above your own resentments.
Grasp that because of your proximity to and intimacy with the Sovereign you will be despised, suspected, and focused upon by adversaries of the Crown, both internal and external.
Your proximity to the Sovereign will generate resentment in those who wish to exploit that proximity for their own profit, especially as they see their anticipated plunder ignored by one who serves his lord and not himself.
Thus your heart is a mirror, facing outwards, protecting the Sovereign.
Your intimacy with the Sovereign will provide you with first warning – before all others – of fallen character in the king, and perspective to see the potential devastation that flows from the sin of the lord who turns his face from God.
Your position as counsel to the Crown is one of grave duty, not restful ease, and demands of you the submission of your own judgment to the way of Heaven and your desires to the will of God and your sworn liege lord.
Thus the wise who counsel the Crown know to keep well to the shadow, else proud temptation and public enemies grow rampant.
Just as one cannot prevent the ninja from entering an encampment or fortification, no matter how strict the security and discipline, one cannot prevent men from falling into grudges, resentments, passions, hostility, and treason.
This is the way of the world as it is.
Men lie and betray.
Men plot and murder.
Men are fallen animals.
Remember this teaching.
You are not exempt from this assessment, and as a man you will also lie, betray, plot, murder, and you will do this according to your fallen nature.
Thus the first prevention of minomushi no jutsu begins with you.
The Sovereign is not exempt from this assessment, and your Sovereign will also lie, betray, plot, murder and will do this according to his fallen nature.
Thus the final prevention of minomushi no jutsu is impossible.
The reality is that service to the Crown is a military effort.
Military effort is ultimately nothing less than the focus of lethal force.
Do not lose sight of this truth:
The axe is never thrown away. It always waits.
If you would serve the Crown with distinction:
Never, ever forget that.
Mortimer was executed.
Stain of spirit.
How can we assess minomushi no jutsu as it relates to narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy of the dark triad?
You must read The Nine Laws and study it well to understand these things beyond mere reading.
Minomushi no jutsu ultimately relies on human nature, high stakes, and entropy.
Narcissism is an essential part of human nature, and the heart of minomushi no jutsu. Every human being possesses narcissism to varying degrees. The stronger the narcissism, the more important regulation of the trait becomes. Resentment is, in fact, a dysregulated expression of narcissism itself – anger at insult to identity.
Machiavellianism is expressed in the deployment of minomushi no jutsu. How efficient, utilitarian, appropriate, and seamless it is for the Machiavellian to topple the adversary, when the adversary’s own arrogant, foolish dysregulation provokes more hot, festering dysregulation in his retainers, and the realm itself begins to spiral around it!
Psychopathy is the cold engine that executes minomushi no jutsu in tandem with the pitiless laws of entropy which ensures that dysregulated poison spilling in a rotted kingdom continues to corrode the core of the realm and its ruler, leading to such degenerate state that overthrow by subornation of treason is far simpler and less costly than invasion.
What do we see again and again, underneath all the methods of the ninja, in the wise who speak guidance into the ears of the king, in the manifestations of the dark triad in the world?
The right heart will protect you.
I do not tell you to maintain purity of heart so you will be “good”.
I warn you to maintain purity of heart or you will be destroyed.
It is that simple.
The right heart is one of justice, of benevolence, of seeing things as they are and not as you wish them to be. A heart like the mirror behind the doors of the Togakure Ryū.
Resentment smears and stains.
Why do you bear resentment?
Does God resent things?
Should a man resent his sovereign lord?
What happens when a dark triad dysregulates?
Entropy is also the way of the universe.
Dead things rot.
Your adherence to Heaven must not rot.
Or the Way of Heaven will decree your destruction.
And the Will of Heaven will ensure it.
This is how it has always been.
This is how it will always be.
Remember this fundamental!
This is why the ninja often view themselves as priests.
Continuous worship is hard, and precisely what Heaven demands.
Rot and Shame.
This concludes the third of the Kurai no Sanko scrolls.
I will come back to purity of heart again and again in this program.
It is not only the most fundamental underpinning of ninjutsu and the higher ninpo methods, but it is also absolutely inseparable from results.
When the heart is shadowed or stained; when greed and resentment infect; when dysregulation begins to shudder; at these times your ability to accurately focus fate through adjusting the trajectory and momentum of your efforts is off.
The sniper’s heartbeat doesn’t cause accuracy problems at 100 meters.
At 1,000 meters away it’s another story.
A minor acceptance of dysregulation may only mean a few more calories today.
After a few years, you’re disgustingly, morbidly obese.
Court favorites will happen, and righteous men will be shamed.Reign that way all the time, and your putrid court will be full of traitors.Understand the worm and the rot it turns in.
Don’t be one.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
THE FOURTH SCROLL
Echoes.
山彦の術 YAMABIKO NO JUTSU
Our fourth lesson will analyze a ninja method known as yamabiko no jutsu.
山彦の術 “echo method” involves the close relationship between the ninja and his lord.
Just as when one claps the sound returns from many places, the will of the lord is echoed in the performance of the ninja as the shadow that follows and delivers fate.
This method requires, in order to be successful, great trust and loyalty. It combines public humiliation, collateral friendly death, and destruction for the adversary.
As we go deeper into this material, how important this magokoro purity of heart becomes!
When methods employ the death of your own men to lend legitimacy to a stratagem, the heart behind such efforts is the determination of success and failure, of accuracy or wild collapse.
There is no shortage in the world of those who engineer death in order to profit without adherence to the Way of Heaven or concern for justice. This does not build stability in the realm, peace in the land, or justice and compassion in human affairs. The ninja is not to be a mere brigand who feeds upon the spoils of outrageous conduct.
Yamabiko no jutsu requires that this purity of heart be the path of both the ninja and his lord, even as those hearts must be close and loyal.
The Bansenshukai speaks of the first display of yamabiko no jutsu that is presented to the world:
Therefore, you should make a secret arrangement with your lord, whereby you commit a serious offence and the lord reprimands you severely, throws you into prison, or confiscates your properties and exiles you from his domain.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
This inception of yamabiko no jutsu publicly severs the heart of lord and retainer, infecting the lord’s court with disdain for the dishonored, and casts shameful cloud on the name of the ninja.
How important this immovable spirit is, when the ninja cannot even tell his family of the mission!
Yamabiko no jutsu creates much pain in the process.
What shame and sorrow must the friends and loved ones of the ninja endure, knowing only that the disfavor and arrest are warranted at the hands of the lord?
Must not mistreatment from prison guards be authentic, in order for wounds to believably present?
This is only the beginning of yamabiko no jutsu:
Then there should be a constructed fight by force of arms so that you should kill five or even seven lower soldiers before you run away. You should go to the enemy and tell them this false story to show that you are not lying and that you hope to serve them; if you do this they will allow you to serve them without any doubts.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
The lives of men are expended as window dressing.
Has this not been the way of our fallen race of beings from time immemorial?
How can a man do this in the interests of justice? How can a man even know justice sufficiently so as to make decisions of this gravity?
These are difficult questions that a stained heart cannot answer.
It is easy to imagine the risks of the yamabiko no jutsu method bringing disaster.
For at the end of this, the ninja goes into the service of the enemy:
After becoming a retainer on their side, you should try to convince them by devoted service, bribe the counsellors or commanders with treasures, get into the favor of men close to the lord, according to their respective taste, or have discreet meetings with the enemy generals and infiltrate your own original side to set fires on unimportant buildings.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
By this time the reputation of the ninja is destroyed.
The family of the ninja is shamed, ostracized, persecuted by the people with the special loathing reserved for traitors.
Enmity from the families of those killed by the ninja during creation of yamabiko no jutsu is hot, and perhaps boiling into vengeance:
By taking every chance to go back to your allies, you should inform your true lord of the status of the enemy, and, when the time comes, you should kill the enemy lord before you leave or set fires in his castle or camp while your allies are attacking from outside, or do anything you can according to the opportunity.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
The result of successful yamabiko no jutsu is the shocking fall of not merely the adversarial lord, but shattered continuity of government for his entire realm. The clap of the lord then echoes through the ninja in the disheartened realm of the adversary, who suffers from the turning of virtues.
Devoted service becomes viewed as a cloak under which men commit treason. Counselors and generals are viewed not as honored sages and lords of war, but as cynical swallowers of the enemy’s coin. Men close to the lord are seen as controlled by their lusts and pleasures, and spewing corruption upon the realm.
With his father King Henry III still imprisoned by the powerful baron Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, and himself having just escaped the same control, Prince Edward raised his own army and restored the authority of the Crown at the Battle of Evesham in 1265:
With their defeat at Lewes still fresh in memory, the royalists fought with a strong sense of bitterness and resentment. As a result, and despite attempts to surrender, most of the baronial rebels were killed on the battlefield rather than taken prisoner and ransomed, as was the common custom and practice. In what has been referred to as ‘an episode of noble bloodletting unprecedented since the Conquest’, Montfort’s son Henry was killed first, then Simon himself lost his horse and died fighting. His body was mutilated; his head, hands, feet and testicles cut off. King Henry himself, who had been in the custody of Montfort and dressed up in his colours, was barely rescued from the mêlée by Roger de Leybourne, a converted rebel.
THE BARON’S WAR (BLAAUW, 2015)
Prince Edward, later King Edward I and known as “Longshanks” and the “Hammer of the Scots”, demonstrated his talents early. And Sir Roger de Leybourne saved the life of the king.
Echoes, in the darkness, of a close lord and retainer who moved as one.
Murder of crowns.
The correct relationship between the lord and retainer is one of fealty and honor, in measures complementary, and in manner dutiful before God.
As counsel to the sovereign who decides the fate of nations and the lives of those within them, how much more your success and errors in wisdom bring impact to the people for which your lord is responsible!
Therefore you bear more responsibility before God than those who merely offer opinion, but not counsel.
Therefore you must weigh the cost of treasure and blood, of hearts and betrayals, and accord your counsel with the realities of what you see and balance the will of the Sovereign with your conscience before God. And the king must hear your voice of dispassionate, unstinting reality and constancy.
Sir Amias Paulet, diplomat and last custodian of Mary Queen of Scots until her execution, provides excellent example:
Mary was found guilty and the warrant for her execution was drafted, but Elizabeth hesitated to sign it, despite pressure from Walsingham. Walsingham wrote to Paulet urging him to find “some way to shorten the life” of Mary to relieve Elizabeth of the burden, to which Paulet replied indignantly, “God forbid that I should make so foul a shipwreck of my conscience, or leave so great a blot to my poor posterity, to shed blood without law or warrant.
HER MAJESTY’S SPYMASTER (BUDIANSKY, 2006)
Queen Mary was beheaded on 8 February 1587.
Sir Amias died in September of the following year, unstained of regicide.
The fact of shifting alliances in war is well known.
It is simply how things operate in the dark world.
Barons change sides.
Men replace kings.
Kings kill traitors.
Governments can be made to collapse.
Reigns can be brought to an end.
Dynasties can be sundered and cut off.
Empires can be toppled.
How does one counsel the Crown against the echoes of its adversary?
This is again where the heart of the king must adhere to the Way of Heaven.
Yamabiko no jutsu is effective where the court is vulnerable. Counselors and commanders take private bribes, those close to the king are focused on gratification of lust and greed, and none place protection of the Crown as the highest duty of the servant.
This is dereliction of military duty.
Adherence to the Way of Heaven is mandatory for the preservation of the Crown.
Thus failure to God is military failure.
Military failure resulting from greed, lust, and abandonment of duty is execrable.
You are responsible for the stability of the throne.
Do not fail in this.
Broken screams.
How does yamabiko no jutsu accord with the narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy of the dark triad?
Yamabiko no jutsu ultimately relies on the tumble and turn of comparative loyalty, duty, and ruthless ferocity in their tumble and turn.
Dysregulated narcissisms of the adversary’s ruler and court are exploited to ingratiate and gain access through bribes, gratification, and other feeding of gratuitous appetites, while the pure vision of the ninja is but an echo of his lord fulfilling the will of Heaven.
Dysregulated Machiavellianism is the swirl of a court where duty is second to profit, where flattery and deceit take primacy over achievement, and where the pure heart withstands public hate and ridicule to achieve direct penetration under the command of a just and beloved king.
Dysregulated psychopathy is the norm of a court where lusts create blindness, ambitions foster illusions, and the risk of an adversary in the heart of things is ignored while the measured action of a man of justice works to systematically bring reality into sharp and permanent impact.
To employ this method of echoes, without extreme care and trusted bond between lord and retainer, brings disaster. How much more hideous the results for the sovereign individual, who must also tumble and turn the roles of speaker and echo, if the right heart is not his ground?
Remember always:
The right heart will protect you.
Without it you will bring much suffering and horror to both people and the nation.
Without it you become a thing of evil.
Magokoro is not a demand that a man become a saint in order to fully epitomize the will of God.
This is important to understand.
At the most fundamental level, magokoro involves seeing things for what they are.
Always follow truth where it leads you in the dark.
If your vision is stained with desire, it will divert from truth.
If your narcissism is driven by lusts, it will fester and corrupt.
If your planning is filled with arrogance, it will crash in attempt.
If your Machiavellianism is excessive and tawdry, it will strangle.
If your competence is ugly and scattered, it will not penetrate.
If your psychopathy is distracted by amusements, it will not save you.
The world works the way it does.
Deal with reality and not with fantasy.
Manage your lusts with circumspection.
Adhere to duty with pride in quiet fealty.
Place your mission above your public self.
Live a life that echoes through the ages.
Body lies.
This concludes the fourth of the Kurai no Sanko program lessons.
As we go deeper into more challenging and, perhaps, more dramatically powerful methods of the ninja, it becomes exponentially more important to ensure that the right heart and mind and purpose are all integrated and integral to his actions.
This connection to the divine, ideally a constant mode of living, becomes irreplaceable to the success of the ninja, of the counselor to the king, of the sovereign individual.
Without that divine connection, this adherence to the Way of Heaven and consequent deployment of the Will of Heaven as echo follows clap, things simply fall apart.
Therefore I instruct you to consider well this concept of purity of heart.
The surest expressions of the heart are seen in posture.
Posture is the Fifth of the Nine Laws, and is the expression of the being itself, the complemented and aligned body, mind, and heart at once.
Yamabiko no jutsu is really about colliding postures in contrast.
Postures born of falsehood will collapse.
Postures borne on truth will sustain.
Even in the dark, my brother.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
THE FIFTH SCROLL
Firefly light.
螢火の術 HOTARUBI NO JUTSU
Our fifth lesson covers the ninja method known as hotarubi no jutsu.
螢火の術 “firefly light method” involves the delivery of false and entrapping signal to undermine and overthrow a prominent tactician, general, or minister in the camp of the adversary.
The glowing spark of the firefly draws eyes in the night, and the hotarubi no jutsu method similarly draws the attention of the adversarial camp, and causes chase.
This method requires deep willingness on the part of the infiltrating agent to accept capture, to undergo interrogation, pain, and potentially death at the hands of the adversary.
Thus a true heart of fealty to one’s lord is essential for penetrating operative, whose life is cast into the tumult of manufactured treason in the heart of the adversary’s realm, and is as worthless as the whim of the adversary’s torturers can make it.
Do not fail to understand that this is life and death and the overthrow of realms and lords. This it not mere theory, but the placing of mission above the continuance of survival!
Hotarubi no jutsu requires deep knowledge of the adversary, of the inner workings of his realm, and is not a probing, leading method. Hotarubi no jutsu is a following method, one employed where there is sufficient intelligence on the part of the ninja to craft false communications that are wholly believable to the adversary.
The method of hotarubi no jutsu proceeds with the drafting of a letter from the ninja’s lord, to the prominent figure in the adversarial camp, confirming arrangements of treason.
Plot details, signals, meeting arrangements, and negotiations of reward for the target’s treason are carefully included. The deep knowledge of the adversary is thus put into place, for the narrative must be exquisitely constructed.
The ninja conceals the letter upon his person, and allows himself to be captured.
The ninja withstands torture until breaking point.
The ninja then reveals the letter in exchange for his life.
This use of hotarubi no jutsu thus employs the pure heart of loyalty the ninja bears for his lord, to withstand interrogation, torture, and likely death.
To the extent the ninja suffers in this process, the more credible the revealed horatubi no jutsu light becomes to the camp of the adversary.
Hotarubi no jutsu requires immense endurance, purpose, concealment, and posture.
It can also be reversed, as all ninja methods, and employed not only to wound the trust and cripple the influence of a prominent person, but to sow the destruction of a defector:
Also if there is anyone who has betrayed your side and defected to the enemy, take advantage of such a person and forge a letter that discusses specific signs or something which appears to connect the target retainer and this person who was once your ally; do this so that he looks like he is actually an enemy agent who has been planted and not a true defector.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
The eyes of men move immediately to a light in the darkness.
Doubt is darkness. Mistrust is darkness. Wariness is darkness. Suspicion is darkness. These are inherent manifestations in men.
Information is light in that darkness. The hearts and minds of men arouse upon its display.
Therefore in the dark of mistrust of a new defector, wariness over the prominent rise of a retainer, suspicion of ambition in a general, the ninja throws himself as a clump of earth into the maelstrom of the adversary, to deliver a brief and surprising light which turns the entire attitude and posture of the adversary to the service of Heaven’s will.
Make no mistake that hotarubi no jutsu may bring the death of the ninja.
The ninja accepts this risk as integral to execution of his purpose. The agony and injury of interrogation is inherent to the validity of hotarubi no jutsu presentation, for at the end the ninja uses that impending death to enhance the validity of the light:
If you spare my life, I will give something of grave concern to you. If I do not inform you of this, then you will plunge into a crisis which will break out from inside of your allies and no one knows when it will happen – maybe it is even happening right now. If you give me quarter, I will tell you what it is. However, if I am to be executed, I will not give away anything no matter how severely you torture me.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
The Bansekshukai explains further:
If things are going as you plan, he may be able to escape execution in most cases, and will cause domestic conflict among the enemy. Even if this plot does not work well, they will have doubts with each other, which should lead them to defeat in the end.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Sun Tzu spoke of “using men as clumps of earth”.
Hotarubi no jutsu utilizes this principle.
The finale of properly executed hotarubi no jutsu delivers instinctive disarray in the trust lattice of the adversary. Therefore disharmony exists, and disharmony has its own rhythm.
Then one may introduce resonance, as a bridge resonates until it bursts apart.
And collapse follows.
Shinmen Musashi no Kami Fujiwara no Genshin explained collapse in the Go Rin No Sho:
Everything can collapse. Houses, bodies, and enemies collapse when their rhythm becomes deranged.
GO RIN NO SHO
Just as the soft, sudden, and vanishing light of the hotarubi firefly creates a gravity well for the attention and interest of the adversary, the introduction of distrust into relationships creates a gravity well for derangement and collapse.
Gravity wells operate with spirals.
Spirals deliver brutal, dizzying impact.
This is a principle of spirals, and of those things attracted to light.
Human beings are among them.
Never forget this:
To navigate a spiral process with freedom, power and endurance, you require magokoro.
Purity of heart.
Sacred trust.
The relationship of trust between lord and retainer, between sovereign and officer of the Crown, must be of supreme honor as the foundation.
The method covered here involves direct attack on those who are in position of counsel and influence to the throne.
Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, 1st Duke of Richelieu and Fronsac, famed for smashing the power of the French barons and creating the central modern French state, and known to history as the Red Eminence, famously advised:
Never write a letter and never destroy one.
This is closeness to the Sovereign, when all is heart to heart transmission before God.
This is traceability of public and private commitments, with fully concealed obligations.
This is the direct connection of the magokoro of the servant of the Crown in fealty to his dread lord.
Cardinal Richelieu provided further instruction on the correct mindset regarding enemies for a grave counselor to the king, moving in the darkness:
I never had any other than those of the State.
Days before he died, he left his last words to his king:
I have the consolation of leaving your kingdom in the highest degree of glory and of reputation.
Your purity of heart will not only further the security of the Crown and the stability of the realm.
It provides the sanctuary where the Sovereign may relax from the lattice of distrust, find respite from the derangement of rhythm, succor from the anxiety of possible collapse.
Thus love and honor and calm and pitiless defense is the heart of the retainer.
Kings are human beings.
Human beings experience pain and fear.
Human beings are anxious when in pain and fear.
How much terror does the anger of a frightened king display throughout the realm? What webs of deceit can be spun and strengthened to ensnare and tug at the base impulses of ambitious and frightened men?
The realm, the court, and the throne must remain calm.
The heart of the Sovereign must know God, and be led to God when the darkness shrouds his vision and hurt from the acts of men begins to steer the State.
Hotarubi no jutsu works because human beings are what they are. Therefore hotarubi no jutsu, as with all the methods of the ninja, cannot be prevented from implementation.
This is why men who operate according principles are powerful.
This is why men who plan according to principles are prepared.
This is why men who decide according to principles are dangerous.
As counsel to the dread lord, your responsibility is to incorporate principles at all levels.
For the reach of the king is vast, and your value must keep pace.
Stragglers are put to death.
Flare signals.
How is hotarubi no jutsu employed with respect to the narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy of the dark triad?
Hotarubi no jutsu involves instinctive physiological response to the presentation of flare, and how human group dynamics intersect with these traits of personality.
Attention, in the form of a gravity well, is involuntarily drawn. This is the physiological response. The entry of distrust precipitated by the revealed information permeates the group dynamic, and engages each trait.
Narcissistic injury occurs as identity is violated through perception of betrayal. The result of narcissistic injury is resentment, which is a festering process that is utilized through additional exposures to such perception.
The structure and timing and play of influence and revelation, endurance and premanufactured breakdown and confession, are inherently and deeply Machiavellian and require deep skill and preparation, knowing the ways of human nature.
But at its heart, hotarubi no jutsu is pure psychopathy.
The decision to walk into tortuous death in order to advance your mission is the most clinical decision possible for a human being to make.
Without that empty heart, the sovereign individual will fail to employ this method successfully.
Once again, understand that the dark world works the way it does.
Depart from the Way of Heaven and the Will of Heaven moves on without you.
You become a straggler before God.
And you will be destroyed.
Hotarubi no jutsu appears on the surface as a terrifying manipulation, a cruel and savage tactic, and a foully brutal method of cracking apart alliances and realms, lives and fates.
Yes.
That is one perspective.
From the other perspective, through the tumble and turn of it by the ninja, there is a polarity of sincere truth:
Hotarubi no jutsu is the active, decisive, positive, irrevocable, laying down of the life of a sovereign individual in full and total sacrifice to his mission, with no reservation, nor thought of preservation.
This is the most powerful bequest a human being can make.
Your life is the most valuable currency you have.
Do not debase it by turning from the Way of Heaven.
Do not condemn it by opposing the Will of Heaven.
In the highest sacrifice is forgiveness of all lesser ties in the dark world.
Whether you are the changing the course of history, ensuring the stability of the realm, or achieving your own sovereign mission, the basal demand is this:
Marry purpose and purity.
Thereby you will accomplish all things.
The battle, the crown, the realm, the world become possible.
Step carefully.
Trust burn.
This concludes the fifth of the Kurai No Sanko scrolls.
The ninja examine all things from the dual perspective, for that is the nature of sincere truth.
Thus there is the outward, and the inward,
The revealed, and the concealed.
The presentation of harsh methodology conceals the heart of pure purpose.
Pure purpose is all that permits immortal sacrifice.
Learn to tumble and turn singularities, brother, for out of the spin of dark and light leaks truth.
The spin of this is where you drive your focus.
It becomes a drill, by which you may enter anywhere.
Hotarubi no jutsu drills into trust, into relationships, into crowns.
Involuntary physiological response to flare, followed by marionetting of human nature.
Derangement of rhythm, then collapse.
It is a natural process.
Learn to steer.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
THE SIXTH SCROLL
Women methods.
くノ一の術 KUNOICHI NO JUTSU
Our sixth lesson covers the ninja method known as kunoichi no jutsu.
くノ一の術 “woman method” involves the delivery of female sexuality to achieve penetration of the human target, as demanded by exigent circumstances.
Properly employed, the kunoichi no jutsu method drives an enflowering surrender in the purpose of the target, and integration into the network of the ninja.
This method requires a specific spiritual detachment on the part of the ninja agent, whether operating at genin, chunin, or jonin levels of seniority. For just as a sword cares not whom it cuts, neither does a kunoichi agent at her moment of bladed decision.
Thus the most proper method to employ kunoichi no jutsu is to operate from the principle of purity of heart. You did not make the world as it is. You live and die in the world as it is. As ninja we do not engage in illusions. That which endangers is powerful.
Power is to be influential in times of war and chaos, collapse and disorder.
What sway can a heartbreakingly gorgeous woman influence into the times of men?
Where can the ninja enter with such leading persuasions sighing into the heart of the adversary?
If magokoro is his frame for clinically detached purpose, what care would be provided to his females?
Kunoichi no jutsu requires competent handling of female assets, in particular the handling of female mental, emotional, and hormonal turbulence. This is balanced against intelligence, competence, and loyalty to the ninja. Kunoichi no jutsu is both a visceral and an enticement method, one employed when the stakes warrant such engagement of the body and spirit.
As always, tumble and turn the process.
It is yo-nin outer ninjutsu to employ willing female agents as a network.
This application of kunoichi no jutsu risks injury to the agents.
It is in-nin inner ninjutsu to select a female because of her placement, and apply himself into it. This application of kunoichi no jutsu risks injury to the ninja.
The Nine Laws speaks of this in a fundamental process you must understand:
The ninja survives.
The ninja conceals.
The ninja endures.
Kunoichi no jutsu requires focus on survival for the ninja and his kunoichi agents.
Kunoichi no jutsu demands competent privacy of the ninja and his kunoichi agents.
Kunoichi no jutsu necessitates formidable patience by the ninja to run kunoichi agents.
Kunoichi agents have their own taijutsu training in weapons and methods appropriate to their sex.
Consider well the danger of a beautiful woman, naked in the arms of an adversary who seeks her life. Left in the most vulnerable posture possible, to handle alone.
What is the proper equipage for such an agent?
What emotional support is necessary for a kunoichi agent?
Before you throw a human being into the dark,
Her safety and purpose must be clear, and it must come from magokoro.
Then kunoichi agents will die loyally.
There are no exceptions to this process.
Females are pipeline to the divine.
It is the Way.
Make no mistake that kunoichi no jutsu may bring the spiritual death of the ninja.
The ninja are human beings as much as any adversary. Just as a sword cares not who it cuts, the kunoichi agent will invariably turn on the ninja as matter of course. This is mere female nature; risk evolves from entanglement, and entanglement arises from confluence of purpose:
In general, kunoichi have a twisted and inferior mind, shallow intelligence and poor speech.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
To become enamored of one’s agent is to lose rational discernment and introduce derangement of rhythm. Therefore understand the application of kunoichi no jutsu.
The Bansenshukai explains further on kunoichi no jutsu with men of power:
The technique of sending kunoichi female agents beforehand is useful when the enemy is high-ranking and his quarters are unknown or if he has a number of security guards and it seems difficult to kill him only with in-nin.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Did Sun Tzu not speak of “using men as clumps of earth”?
Ninja use all things as clumps of dirt.
For absolute victory of the lord.
The objective of properly conducted kunoichi no jutsu is a continuous harmony of satisfied female arousal and collectively focused intelligence throughout the milieu of engagement.
Delivery of this is challenging, and a specialty just as ambushes, fire and explosives, and concealed movement are specialties.
Females operate on rhythms, and rhythmic management is necessary for proper deployment and oversight. Thus chunin are directed as leaders of kunoichi networks, and not genin.
Females eternally maintain their own objectives. This is inherent to their sex, and is well considered when employing kunoichi agents. Deep adherence to purpose, strict attention to posture, and firm reminder of power is essential to correct momentum and trajectory for the network.
The most primal power of a man is to spurt his seed into a beautiful woman.
The most primal nature of a woman is to seek the seed of the most powerful man.
This is the way of Men and the Will of Heaven.
As the ninja bends time and space to achieve the Will of Heaven,
The Way is simply the Way:
Do what is useful. Do not do what is not.
GO RIN NO SHO
The life and death of thousands can depend upon the whim of a female.
Therefore work to cultivate correct understanding and management of the same.
It is a matter of military discipline.
Beheaded hearts.
The presence of women at court is a permanent conclusion that must be addressed in the counsels of the dread lords which you serve.
No throne has gone untouched by the hands of a woman from the very dawn of crowns.
For all men have mothers, and it is the purpose of all women to raise kings of men.
Scripture itself testifies to the role of women at court in Proverbs 11:16:
A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.
THE KING JAMES BIBLE
At the right hand of the Sovereign it is your duty to understand that all honor flows from the Crown. This is a principle of service to the dread lord.
Women retain and are rightful reservoirs of that honor. Therefore they will have influence out of proportion to their value in considerations of the security of the Crown.
One must balance female influence when providing counsel to the Sovereign, for irrational impulse is the province of all those whelped from women, and who have a heart beating in their chest.
Therefore moments of State which occasion the execution of women are among the most solemn and terrifying displays of executive power:
Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it.
After her last words, the head of Anne Boleyn was removed.
Yet the stability of the realm itself is rocked as women of honor, and of the court, are served with final sentence.
Therefore the majesty of the king is the final indicator of decision.
Where the Sovereign abandons majesty in the presence of a woman, decisions of the Crown may affect the stability of the realm if her influence is brought to bear.
Thus women possess power at court.
To be wiser than a woman is the duty of the retainer who puts his service to his dread lord after his faithfulness to God.
Your proximity to the throne demands such trust.
The interests of a woman must never conflict with the stability of the realm.
Thus even great kings lose their loved ones, and the axe eats to the roar of subjects.
Without conscience unstained before God, you cannot execute a death warrant on a queen.
It is in opposition to that reservoir of honor.
Dishonorable.
Therefore by adherence to honor where women are concerned, the counsel to the Crown can be trusted to do the work of God in furtherance of stability of the realm.
To protect the heart of the king from tragedy.
To pick the pieces up afterwards.
For kings with a broken heart, who turn wrathful, release much blood.
And you are within reach.
Complementation.
When kunoichi no jutsu is put to deliberate use by highly regulated traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, what is results can be obtained in the dark world?
The Nine Laws provides you a framework within which you can answer that question for yourself.
Kunoichi no jutsu taps into the most primal evolutionary demand that exists for human beings. We eat, we fight, and we fuck. And only one of those is critical path for survival of the species.
Therefore it is ingrained in the survival process of the organism itself.
“A stiff dick knows no conscience.”
“Hypergamy.”
“True love.”
It does not matter what you call it.
It is the literal framework of our species.
It is what it is, and it’s among the most glorious experiences a human being can undergo. Therefore it is the ultimate lure, the most intoxicating brew, the most attractive seduction that can be emplaced in appropriate service to purpose.
This is simply intelligent execution.
To lose on purpose does not serve God.
It is arrogant assumption of the prerogative of the Divine.
Self sabotage is the delivery of judgment by an unrighteous mortal.
Do not turn your face from God.
Win.
Kunoichi no jutsu may be criticized as nothing more than pimping during wartime.
This is, to an extent, correct.
Warfare places extraordinary demands upon human beings, a species known for extraordinary adaptation. To the extent that human beings can adapt, your competence in execution of engagement within every arena is the measurement of your life and death.
Therefore the tumble and turn of the male and female, the engagement of purity of heart into sexual enthrallment through alignment of thought, word and deed, is a skillset that the ninja, the senior courtier, and the sovereign individual all must master.
Kunoichi no jutsu is not exploitation of women, merely full utilization.
Intrigue at court through sexual dalliance is known of old. Long before Salome writhed her lovely belly before the king, men’s heads were on bloody plates at the whims of women.
Women play for keeps just as men do.
You must succeed within the world as it is.
Fear of women prevents kunoichi no jutsu.
Resentment of women prevents kunoichi no jutsu.
Mistrust of women prevents kunoichi no jutsu.
Do not have limitations on your mobility. Engage with the world as it is, and master confluences of all opportunities that flow your way on the great river of human experience.
It is incredible.
Don’t miss it.
Tumble burst.
This concludes the sixth of the Kurai no Sanko program lessons.
The most powerful dual examinations of the ninja correspond to the male and female, for they are the very essence of our physical existence.
The plunging, and the plunged.
The enfolding, and the enfolded.
The dominance, and the exultation.
The tumble and turn of hearts and minds, with the ultimate expression of engagement washed through both the ninja and the kunoichi in a manner calculated to provoke the most unstoppable explosion of power.
Love, lust, and fury aimed at the heart of the world becomes a spear, of glamor and renown that draws the eyes of all.
Learn the techniques of handling females. Absorb the methods by which they operate. Apply the principles to guide and lead.
In correct service.
It is what they are made for.
Own it.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
THE SEVENTH SCROLL
Shadow houses.
陽中陰術 YO CHU IN JUTSU
Our seventh scroll covers the ninja method known as yo chu in jutsu.
陽中陰術 “inner within outer method” or “shadow inside open” involves involves the parallel use of ninja operating modalities known as yo-nin and in-nin.
Yo-nin 陽忍 “outer stealth” refers to overt engagement, with the inner self concealed, as in presentation in disguise or office or role by an agent that is visible and accepted, while the true purpose of the agent in supporting the ninja is concealed.
The maid in the home, the porter in the entourage, the shopper in the marketplace, concealed in the open, entwined in plain sight of the adversary and yet unseen.
In-nin 陰忍 “inner stealth” is covert engagement, with the inner self unconcealed. Hidden movement in the dark, the unheard footfall in the hall of the lord, the shadow that passes unfelt behind cruel and pitiless guards, but is instantly revealed as a murderous intruder on sight.
Yo chu in jutsu is the application of kyojitsu tenkan ho, the sacred tumble and turn, to these concentric, spinning concepts of inner and outer concealment and revelation.
The light shines so that eyes may see, but shadows pass unnoticed into the gap that inevitably results from the nature of human beings and their habits, predilections, and cycles when perception is induced.
The fundamental basis of all movement and engagement, from heart to mind to body, must follow moral principles without stain or disreputable conduct:
By revealing moral principles, pursuing righteousness and not concealing injustice, we come to the extreme secrets of ninjutsu and thus we express everything in a proper order.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
The ninja therefore must be a man of justice, pursuing righteousness, and avoid collapse into cynicism, proselytization of disrepute, or careless aggrandizement of desire and ego.
These are the sins of men, and these suffering desires deliver gap for entrance of the ninja. Therefore understand the application of yo chu in jutsu as means to enter into the slightest deviation of men from this way of justice, truth, righteousness, and proper order.
The illusions and lies men tell themselves are gaps between truth and desire.
Within these gaps, shinobi penetrate:
Though there are so many things a shinobi should keep in mind, the first thing of all is how to get close to the enemy.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
How does one see through gaps, and move silently within?
Ninja understand the purity of heart, the magokoro that is absolute necessity.
Lies are the currency of men, and the lies men speak to themselves in the darkness of their heart and mind are nonetheless written through their body and on display to the world.
This is true from the lowest vagabond to the highest lord who commands estates and realms.
Thereby to alternate with kyojitsu tenkan ho the presentation of yo and in, light and dark, enables fluttered penetration through alternation of shadow and illumination.
This process of yo chu in jutsu thereby serves as the lens through which the ninja is able to ascertain the hearts of men, through contrast and alternation.
Lords bring great ego, commensurate with their station, and the sins of lords are manifested through the ranks of the army and the people of the realm.
Beggars live in ego, defining their station, for opposition to the world and the Way produces fates in accordance with such unhappy blindness.
They are the same, different only in trajectory of consequence, for the deluded beggar slaughters his station, while the incautious and unwise lord murders the realm and his people.
Such has been the Way from time immemorial, and none are exempt from the Mandate of Heaven.
As the ninja alternates light and dark, the real and the hollow, the flashes of makoto sincere truth reveal what lies in the heart.
There is always a gap:
“To move the shade” is used when you cannot see the enemy’s spirit.In large-scale strategy, when you cannot see the enemy’s position, indicate that you are about to attack strongly, to discover his resources. It is easy then to defeat him with a different method once you see his resources.
GO RIN NO SHO
The gradient from beggar to lord is profound, yet both flow from the exactness of truth within the heart.
The sins of men do not change, regardless of station.
Move light and dark, and thereby see.
Know the fate that justice will bring.
In accordance with Heaven, cut once.
Fallen lords.
The duty of a retainer before the lord does not override the considerations of justice.
The balances of manhood and fealty, war and cruelty, salvation and majesty are the scales of Heaven.
Men bear duty first to God, and second to the throne of the king.
Heaven does not fail to perceive the makoto behind the designs of men, as Hebrews 4:12 teaches:
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
THE KING JAMES BIBLE
The Sovereign bears first duty to Heaven, to judge with truth and not falsehood, to abstain from evil lest it flow into the realm.
The retainer bears first duty to God, to uphold the Way of Heaven, and thereby serve as remonstrance by example within the court.
Yet no court is beyond the risk of poisonous counsel, sudden rise in favor, and ambitions in the hearts of men who are trusted as loyal.
Hearts become troubled; men speak in shadows; and whispers run through the kingdom, as a storm gathers at the heels of armies.
For just as the Crown is the fount of honor, from which the legitimacy of the State and its officers arise, so too is the Sovereign the harbinger of the fate that befalls the nation.
Thus the beggar destroys himself, and the foolish king devastates his realm, beyond the reach of his own life. Hosea 4:6:
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
THE KING JAMES BIBLE
The true heart of the loyal retainer cannot withstand sure and certain knowledge of the evil of the king.
The conscience of a man before God takes precedence over even duty to the throne.
How terrible it is, when the heart of the ruler is turned to unwise counsel.
The people become oppressed; justice becomes transient; and the future of the nation stumbles.
Yet to challenge the Sovereign is fatal, for Caesar demands his rendering, and those who fail in respect do so at peril.
Therefore one must lead the justice of the Crown through the yo-nin of open presence, with concealed heart of love.
Thereby the royal counselor does not spread shame within the Court, but speaks directly to the heart of the Crown.
For the prerogative of the king to heed counsel in direction of salvation or damnation belongs to him.
Fealty and majesty are cruel, for the only road through evil done by the king is a broken heart.
Yet a broken heart is more righteous than acquiescence to evil, for Heaven bears final prerogative.
Never forget that the Crown is mere representative, as example of the Way, and deviation brings death.
It is the inevitable law of God.
Therefore let men who see evil in the realm, done by ministers who bear hearts of stone,
Place first their adherence to the Way of Heaven and deviate not from righteousness.
Thereby execution becomes testament to fidelity, and Heaven raises and throws down in turn.
The ninja does not further nor facilitate evil, even to the level of the beggar.
You remain always within reach of God.
Deny this, and you betray both lord and realm.
Manifestation.
When yo chu in jutsu is delivered within the framework of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, how does one use it to perceive gaps?
The Nine Laws is your manual of kyojitsu tenkan ho, the great tumble and turn that brings truth to the fore and displays the vacuum lies leave behind.
Yo chu in jutsu advances this great spinning process, brought further from black and white into a mirror backed by the endless black gulf of damnation.
Spin the mirror before Men, that they may see themselves before God, and the consequence of lies behind.
The flash of truth and the promise of death are inherent in the fabric of creation.
Men will lust, and men will lie.
Men will desire, and men will die.
Men live only to die, for that is the fate that they have been created to achieve.
All things return to dust, and there is no exception.
Therefore gaps exist, and cannot be prevented.
Understand that evil has prerogative as well, and to rule over Earth under Heaven is its design and manifestation.
Thus desire to rule in the hearts of men comes directly from the face of evil.
To seek power absent mandate of Heaven is to bring foul consequence into the world.
Even to the children of the realm.
Yo chu in jutsu demands regulation of the mind, the heart, and the body.
To speak of mirror and gulf before others unstoppably brings them to tumble and turn of vanity and shame.
The man who has no fear for his own sins, has abandoned himself to gratuitous evil, regardless of his countenance.
To see the evil in the hearts of men, it is only necessary to present this balance. For the unbalanced fall before God.
To turn men from evil, one cannot force, but only present the remonstrance of magokoro and the inexorable results it brings.
Yo chu in jutsu is not manipulation, but the manner in which truth is presented to those who refuse it.
For men retain their prerogative of conscience, and answer for their deeds and for their evil.
This is the design of the world.
Hold to truth and do not let go.
The realm may fall, and devastation turn the land to chaff and death.
Poor councilors will writhe, and scream frustration as they slide into the pit.
The throne itself will topple, and there is no respite of consequence under the Mandate of Heaven.
The man who moves thought, word, and deed as one into vision, planning, and competence does not falter in spirit.
He lets chips fall where they may, for not his will but that of God in Heaven is always done.
Always follow truth where it leads you in the dark.
Dread truth.
This concludes the seventh of the Kurai no Sanko program lessons.
The ninja before all things is a servant of God in the dark.
His steps before the beggar speak of respect for life and kindness for those who suffer.
His work within the shadows of the realm accords with justice and truth and righteous movement.
His posture before the dread lord is pitiless and compassionate, for only such things can reach the heart of the king.
Men with ambitious power both love and hate mirrors, for as they love themselves they hate their shame and cannot reconcile.
Their belief that they are different from others is founded in the mortal sin of vanity and greed.
See the movements and orbits of such things. Know that Heaven will not be denied, and this is good as all truth is.
You bear sacred and inalterable responsibility to see and know and own your sins before the Throne of Heaven.
It is difficult, and broken hearts strew the path of the seamless Way.
Follow your conscience and do not tempt God or the Devil with your arrogance among Men.
Face the mirror without shield, coat, or armor and you will find grace and mercy from God.
Pursue armed advancement of lies, and the gulf smiles in anticipation.
The Devil always gets his due.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
THE EIGHTH SCROLL
Broken form.
型違えるの術 KATATAGAE NO JUTSU
Our eighth scroll covers the ninja method known as katatagae no jutsu.
型違えるの術 “broken form” or “mistake structure” is used when the ninja is faced with unexpected attack from a strong position.
In times where the adversary unexpectedly shows intention and sign of moving from a prepared stronghold or fortress, or is preparing a surprise attack, the ninja presents katatagae no jutsu as means to ensure penetration and facility of intelligence through broken or mistaken form in accord with the opposing force.
Following discovery and subsequent notification of friendly forces, the ninja utilizes the confident array and advance of the superior force to infiltrate, infect, and penetrate without opposition.
Where confidence in power, arrogance of position, and certainty of entitlement are present along a strong and united front, the inevitable gaps are in the heart of the castle or the stronghold of the lord.
Katatagae no jutsu is the application of kyojitsu tenkan ho to broken posture, momentum of vanity, and the strictures of the environment to facilitate penetration and overthrow.
When the great lord believes in his power, and sets troops to advance from the stronghold, the focus of the commander and the troops is on the unexpected power of their suddenness.
As the Bansenshukai notes well, these conditions permit inflow of the ninja:
As the enemy is launching a night attack in an attempt to catch you off guard, it is concentrating on outwitting you and is not thinking of being outwitted. Therefore, it tends not to expect ninja to infiltrate by taking advantage of this gap.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Once more the extreme skill of the ninja lies not in force against force, or resorting to clamor and outrage, but the correct application of principle in appropriate moment.
In the tumult of coordinated assault, the troops and commanders are focused on their objective, and not on full, methodical defense of their inner court.
The chaos of movement and flow of men is simple to assimilate within, either crossing with penetration or according outwards with pre-seditious troops.
Thereby the ninja maintains command over the outcome of fate, by tumbling within the behavior of the resolute and the powerful.
Such commanders, and the spirit of their men, are easily led into the belief of dominance and consequent stream from position of strength:
According to the time and place, you should perform these above techniques in an appropriate way for the status of the enemy forces, so that you can lure them out of the castle to perform katatagae.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
How does one defend against katatagae no jutsu?
The more clever and powerful the adversary and his army, the more impossible to prevent penetration.
For the mirror of the heart shows gap, and the confidence to move is the error of exposure.
Hostility at its base is movement in the heart.
Where hostility is present, men cannot cease their attachment to desire for determined outcome.
Consider this well, and understand the equal balance of in and yo where the movement of power is concerned.
Power draws after itself when moving, and even the mild thoughts of men cause gap.
This is the rule of Heaven, for are not men imperfect before God?
Think well on this method, and know the importance of purity of heart when drawing the outcome of fate.
The ninja also understand well principles of war, and where the confluence of people, rulers, and the environment intersect.
Tumble and turn these things, through the full array of vanity and power, tumult and momentum, timing and penetration.
Movement is the natural state of things, even of experienced commanders.
According to the fundamental principles of war, you should apply three criteria to find a gap within the enemy: the stupidity of the lord, trouble among people, and the benefit of the location. A massive army under the control of a stupid lord is seriously problematic. Trouble among people makes for a weak point, whereas the benefit of the location is the key for your smaller army against a massive enemy.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
The most certain way to prevent infiltration through katatagae no jutsu is to remain within the stronghold.
The middle way to bar entry from the ninja is to cease to move in whole or part.
The final way to forestall penetration by the ninja is not to bear hostility in the shadow.
Men drive their own fates, despite the warnings of Heaven.Heaven does not do pity.
Vain barons.
Where human being are, there you will find vanity, pride, and greed among all the other sins of Men.
The court is no different, and men charged with bearing counsel to the king will find such proclivities of human beings in sharp abundance. Temptation to fame, power, and wealth infect them, and vain barons often bring destruction to the nation.
For the court is a place where men jockey and vie for attention and affection, where display and theater of manners conceals lust for murder in the heart.The misery of fallen courts and kingdoms, and betrayals between men, arise from time immemorial. James 4:1-3 testifies:
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.THE KING JAMES BIBLE
The highest example of the Mandate of Heaven is the divine right of the king to the throne that he holds in right of God.
Dieu et mon droit, “God and my right”, declares the arms of the Kings of England since the time of Henry V, and this is the true heart of the genuine prince of state.
Yet Damocles weighs in as well, for no king is absent a court, and within the court run always the guileful enemies of the Sovereign.
As water flows downwards, finding its way through rock and cliff to the sea, as surely the desires and vanity of men find their way upwards around and through the loyalty and honor and faith that has placed them within reach of power.
Those who counsel the king live within an uneasy and dangerous space. Their work is done in peculiar shadow. For between ambitious, resentful hearts bent on aggrandizement of their own estates, and the need of the Sovereign to bestow trust and advancement, there is delicate work of enormous risk.
The counselor to the throne must weigh his future worth to the king in time of need, against the loss of his own head by opposing the immediate ambitions of such men. Kings have favorites, and play favorites, and the wise man does not struggle but rather accords.
For power comes and goes, and the Crown endures past the momentary whims of the king.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Where counsel will not be heard, and admonishment will not be taken, the gates of the realm are open to evil.
Whether dotage of age or arrogance of youth, resentment of ego or whispered lies in the ears of the king, it matters not in the end.
The fate of the realm and of government still lie in the hands of the king, for such is his prerogative.
Men will infinitely argue their right to do evil, for that is in accordance with their fallen nature. They will find endless ways to rationalize their crimes and lies.
Men will ceaselessly seek to elevate themselves, even to usurpation of the throne, and there is no surprise in this.
Thereby the royal counselor understands his true value and deepest role, which is neither the movement of armies nor of power.
To be true servant, and true friend, of the king does not require majestic obedience to the counsel you deliver.
For if it is truth you speak, and the motivation behind your counsel stems from magokoro purity of heart, then the consequences of that speech and counsel are manifest.
Only the ego or foolishness of the ruler interferes with his conscience as a king.
To remonstrance against this, in criticism or attack, is not the Way.
As a parent permits consequence to fall according to the reality and weight of natural consequence, so too does the wise guide allow kings to find their own way, from time to time. And when the adherence of any dread lord to the Way of Heaven grows dark and falls to the side, so too do the earned results.
Know when the timing is right to rebuke the king.
Know when the distance of the ruler’s ego means his heart is unreachable.
See the angles that vain and ambitious men align upon, in pursuit of temporal power.
Fealty enables pure heart to properly weigh and sift for the benefit of the Crown and the realm.
Cruelty provides vehicle for the inevitable and final fate of traitors who rise with malevolence.
Majesty results from the concert of all, in constellation of sacred purpose and betrayal.
Look well, and understand.
Extrication.
Where may katatagae no jutsu be adapted and utilized by the great processes of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy?
Think of extrication, and the various ways in which an embedded adversary may be dislodged from a position of power, causing him to come out.
Katatagae no jutsu is the sudden, tiny, but decisive advantage delivered to the small by the inevitable trail of consequence the large leave behind.
How foolish to believe that the movement of an army leaves no trace!
How unlessoned is the commander, who believes because he has decided, and his army sallies forth, that the greater mind is his.
The narcissist does not dysregulated, and allow his vision to fall into such idiot arrogance.
The Machiavellian does not assume his own initiative by fiat has won the day.
The psychopath does not act on impulse, but remains well-postured and appropriate as he cuts.
Understand that the principles of the shinobi warriors can be applied in myriad ways!
When angry manifesto is wrung out from the prisoner, cannot doubt be subtly inserted in his heart for later exploitation?
With new entrance into a market is effected, and company executives are confident, what focus is there on the quiet new hire in a lateral department?
When political adversaries launch onslaught of propaganda, what secrets are already under scrutiny by opposing operatives?
Apply well to your life, and understand the essential nature of katatagae no jutsu.
The sudden attack is the moment to penetrate.
The broad declaration is the timing to undermine.
The certainty of victory opens men up to overthrow.
Katatagae no jutsu demands swiftness, incisiveness, and determined heart.
It is the swing of weighted consequence into the rear of a commander’s ego, much as the iron ring of the kyoketsu shoge spins and slams from behind.
Understand the danger of movement, for without movement there is no gap.
Understand the stillness of competence, and the regulation that goes beyond patience into enlightenment.
The competing passions of men, and their inevitable ego and vanity,
Will inexorably lead them to move.
The more they estimate their power,
The greater the gap they leave for the ninja.
If you fear the ninja, look to your sins.
Katatagae no jutsu demands kyojitsu tenkan ho, as do all principles of the ninja.
Turn all tools against your predilections for gap and ego and arrogance arise.
Know where your vanity and pride and greed cause you to deserve death.
Never forget that Heaven favors its own mandate, and not the ambitions of men.
Using the above, you should fathom the enemy and contemplate your own nature.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Evil karma.
This concludes the eighth of the Kurai no Sanko program lessons.
As ninja you will bear responsibility for correct understanding, and proper employment, of these methods.
Never fail to understand that your ego, your sense of separateness of self from all things,
Is the cackling leer of a liar, who was a liar from the beginning.
Heaven does not make exceptions for you.
Truth does not alter itself for you.
Justice does not balance itself for you.
The infinite gulf will never make way for you.
Stare inside, and do not fail to see your conscience.
The voice of your conscience foretells judgment before God.
Before you do evil, you do not need warning of karma.
The moment you think evil, stain spreads in the heart and mind and body.
Therefore one may recognize evil when it walks, to and fro across the Earth,
For the ninja is faceless before God, an instrument of Heaven,
And not mere contemptible, disreputable thief.
The Crown is the fountain of honor,
But Heaven dispenses justice.
Think well.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
As the enemy is launching a night attack in an attempt to catch you off guard, it is concentrating on outwitting you and is not thinking of being outwitted. Therefore, it tends not to expect ninja to infiltrate by taking advantage of this gap.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Once more the extreme skill of the ninja lies not in force against force, or resorting to clamor and outrage, but the correct application of principle in appropriate moment.
In the tumult of coordinated assault, the troops and commanders are focused on their objective, and not on full, methodical defense of their inner court.
The chaos of movement and flow of men is simple to assimilate within, either crossing with penetration or according outwards with pre-seditious troops.
Thereby the ninja maintains command over the outcome of fate, by tumbling within the behavior of the resolute and the powerful.
Such commanders, and the spirit of their men, are easily led into the belief of dominance and consequent stream from position of strength:
According to the time and place, you should perform these above techniques in an appropriate way for the status of the enemy forces, so that you can lure them out of the castle to perform katatagae.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
How does one defend against katatagae no jutsu?
The more clever and powerful the adversary and his army, the more impossible to prevent penetration.
For the mirror of the heart shows gap, and the confidence to move is the error of exposure.
Hostility at its base is movement in the heart.
Where hostility is present, men cannot cease their attachment to desire for determined outcome.
Consider this well, and understand the equal balance of in and yo where the movement of power is concerned.
Power draws after itself when moving, and even the mild thoughts of men cause gap.
This is the rule of Heaven, for are not men imperfect before God?
Think well on this method, and know the importance of purity of heart when drawing the outcome of fate.
The ninja also understand well principles of war, and where the confluence of people, rulers, and the environment intersect.
Tumble and turn these things, through the full array of vanity and power, tumult and momentum, timing and penetration.
Movement is the natural state of things, even of experienced commanders:
According to the fundamental principles of war, you should apply three criteria to find a gap within the enemy: the stupidity of the lord, trouble among people, and the benefit of the location. A massive army under the control of a stupid lord is seriously problematic. Trouble among people makes for a weak point, whereas the benefit of the location is the key for your smaller army against a massive enemy.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
The most certain way to prevent infiltration through katatagae no jutsu is to remain within the stronghold.
The middle way to bar entry from the ninja is to cease to move in whole or part.
The final way to forestall penetration by the ninja is not to bear hostility in the shadow.
Men drive their own fates, despite the warnings of Heaven.Heaven does not do pity.
Vain barons.
Where human being are, there you will find vanity, pride, and greed among all the other sins of Men.
The court is no different, and men charged with bearing counsel to the king will find such proclivities of human beings in sharp abundance. Temptation to fame, power, and wealth infect them, and vain barons often bring destruction to the nation.
For the court is a place where men jockey and vie for attention and affection, where display and theater of manners conceals lust for murder in the heart.The misery of fallen courts and kingdoms, and betrayals between men, arise from time immemorial. James 4:1-3 testifies:
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.THE KING JAMES BIBLE
The highest example of the Mandate of Heaven is the divine right of the king to the throne that he holds in right of God.
Dieu et mon droit, “God and my right”, declares the arms of the Kings of England since the time of Henry V, and this is the true heart of the genuine prince of state.
Yet Damocles weighs in as well, for no king is absent a court, and within the court run always the guileful enemies of the Sovereign.
As water flows downwards, finding its way through rock and cliff to the sea, as surely the desires and vanity of men find their way upwards around and through the loyalty and honor and faith that has placed them within reach of power.
Those who counsel the king live within an uneasy and dangerous space. Their work is done in peculiar shadow. For between ambitious, resentful hearts bent on aggrandizement of their own estates, and the need of the Sovereign to bestow trust and advancement, there is delicate work of enormous risk.
The counselor to the throne must weigh his future worth to the king in time of need, against the loss of his own head by opposing the immediate ambitions of such men. Kings have favorites, and play favorites, and the wise man does not struggle but rather accords.
For power comes and goes, and the Crown endures past the momentary whims of the king.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Where counsel will not be heard, and admonishment will not be taken, the gates of the realm are open to evil.
Whether dotage of age or arrogance of youth, resentment of ego or whispered lies in the ears of the king, it matters not in the end.
The fate of the realm and of government still lie in the hands of the king, for such is his prerogative.
Men will infinitely argue their right to do evil, for that is in accordance with their fallen nature. They will find endless ways to rationalize their crimes and lies.
Men will ceaselessly seek to elevate themselves, even to usurpation of the throne, and there is no surprise in this.
Thereby the royal counselor understands his true value and deepest role, which is neither the movement of armies nor of power.
To be true servant, and true friend, of the king does not require majestic obedience to the counsel you deliver.
For if it is truth you speak, and the motivation behind your counsel stems from magokoro purity of heart, then the consequences of that speech and counsel are manifest.
Only the ego or foolishness of the ruler interferes with his conscience as a king.
To remonstrance against this, in criticism or attack, is not the Way.
As a parent permits consequence to fall according to the reality and weight of natural consequence, so too does the wise guide allow kings to find their own way, from time to time. And when the adherence of any dread lord to the Way of Heaven grows dark and falls to the side, so too do the earned results.
Know when the timing is right to rebuke the king.
Know when the distance of the ruler’s ego means his heart is unreachable.
See the angles that vain and ambitious men align upon, in pursuit of temporal power.
Fealty enables pure heart to properly weigh and sift for the benefit of the Crown and the realm.
Cruelty provides vehicle for the inevitable and final fate of traitors who rise with malevolence.
Majesty results from the concert of all, in constellation of sacred purpose and betrayal.
Look well, and understand.
Extrication.
Where may katatagae no jutsu be adapted and utilized by the great processes of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy?
Think of extrication, and the various ways in which an embedded adversary may be dislodged from a position of power, causing him to come out.
Katatagae no jutsu is the sudden, tiny, but decisive advantage delivered to the small by the inevitable trail of consequence the large leave behind.
How foolish to believe that the movement of an army leaves no trace!
How unlessoned is the commander, who believes because he has decided, and his army sallies forth, that the greater mind is his.
The narcissist does not dysregulated, and allow his vision to fall into such idiot arrogance.
The Machiavellian does not assume his own initiative by fiat has won the day.
The psychopath does not act on impulse, but remains well-postured and appropriate as he cuts.
Understand that the principles of the shinobi warriors can be applied in myriad ways!
When angry manifesto is wrung out from the prisoner, cannot doubt be subtly inserted in his heart for later exploitation?
With new entrance into a market is effected, and company executives are confident, what focus is there on the quiet new hire in a lateral department?
When political adversaries launch onslaught of propaganda, what secrets are already under scrutiny by opposing operatives?
Apply well to your life, and understand the essential nature of katatagae no jutsu.
The sudden attack is the moment to penetrate.
The broad declaration is the timing to undermine.
The certainty of victory opens men up to overthrow.
Katatagae no jutsu demands swiftness, incisiveness, and determined heart.
It is the swing of weighted consequence into the rear of a commander’s ego, much as the iron ring of the kyoketsu shoge spins and slams from behind.
Understand the danger of movement, for without movement there is no gap.
Understand the stillness of competence, and the regulation that goes beyond patience into enlightenment.
The competing passions of men, and their inevitable ego and vanity,
Will inexorably lead them to move.
The more they estimate their power,
The greater the gap they leave for the ninja.
If you fear the ninja, look to your sins.
Katatagae no jutsu demands kyojitsu tenkan ho, as do all principles of the ninja.
Turn all tools against your predilections for gap and ego and arrogance arise.
Know where your vanity and pride and greed cause you to deserve death.
Never forget that Heaven favors its own mandate, and not the ambitions of men.
Using the above, you should fathom the enemy and contemplate your own nature.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Evil karma.
This concludes the eighth of the Kurai no Sanko program lessons.
As ninja you will bear responsibility for correct understanding, and proper employment, of these methods.
Never fail to understand that your ego, your sense of separateness of self from all things,
Is the cackling leer of a liar, who was a liar from the beginning.
Heaven does not make exceptions for you.
Truth does not alter itself for you.
Justice does not balance itself for you.
The infinite gulf will never make way for you.
Stare inside, and do not fail to see your conscience.
The voice of your conscience foretells judgment before God.
Before you do evil, you do not need warning of karma.
The moment you think evil, stain spreads in the heart and mind and body.
Therefore one may recognize evil when it walks, to and fro across the Earth,
For the ninja is faceless before God, an instrument of Heaven,
And not mere contemptible, disreputable thief.
The Crown is the fountain of honor,
But Heaven dispenses justice.
Think well.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
THE KING JAMES BIBLE
The highest example of the Mandate of Heaven is the divine right of the king to the throne that he holds in right of God.
Dieu et mon droit, “God and my right”, declares the arms of the Kings of England since the time of Henry V, and this is the true heart of the genuine prince of state.
Yet Damocles weighs in as well, for no king is absent a court, and within the court run always the guileful enemies of the Sovereign.
As water flows downwards, finding its way through rock and cliff to the sea, as surely the desires and vanity of men find their way upwards around and through the loyalty and honor and faith that has placed them within reach of power.
Those who counsel the king live within an uneasy and dangerous space. Their work is done in peculiar shadow. For between ambitious, resentful hearts bent on aggrandizement of their own estates, and the need of the Sovereign to bestow trust and advancement, there is delicate work of enormous risk.
The counselor to the throne must weigh his future worth to the king in time of need, against the loss of his own head by opposing the immediate ambitions of such men. Kings have favorites, and play favorites, and the wise man does not struggle but rather accords.
For power comes and goes, and the Crown endures past the momentary whims of the king.
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
Where counsel will not be heard, and admonishment will not be taken, the gates of the realm are open to evil.
Whether dotage of age or arrogance of youth, resentment of ego or whispered lies in the ears of the king, it matters not in the end.
The fate of the realm and of government still lie in the hands of the king, for such is his prerogative.
Men will infinitely argue their right to do evil, for that is in accordance with their fallen nature. They will find endless ways to rationalize their crimes and lies.
Men will ceaselessly seek to elevate themselves, even to usurpation of the throne, and there is no surprise in this.
Thereby the royal counselor understands his true value and deepest role, which is neither the movement of armies nor of power.
To be true servant, and true friend, of the king does not require majestic obedience to the counsel you deliver.
For if it is truth you speak, and the motivation behind your counsel stems from magokoro purity of heart, then the consequences of that speech and counsel are manifest.
Only the ego or foolishness of the ruler interferes with his conscience as a king.
To remonstrance against this, in criticism or attack, is not the Way.
As a parent permits consequence to fall according to the reality and weight of natural consequence, so too does the wise guide allow kings to find their own way, from time to time. And when the adherence of any dread lord to the Way of Heaven grows dark and falls to the side, so too do the earned results.
Know when the timing is right to rebuke the king.
Know when the distance of the ruler’s ego means his heart is unreachable.
See the angles that vain and ambitious men align upon, in pursuit of temporal power.
Fealty enables pure heart to properly weigh and sift for the benefit of the Crown and the realm.
Cruelty provides vehicle for the inevitable and final fate of traitors who rise with malevolence.
Majesty results from the concert of all, in constellation of sacred purpose and betrayal.
Look well, and understand.
Extrication.
Where may katatagae no jutsu be adapted and utilized by the great processes of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy?
Think of extrication, and the various ways in which an embedded adversary may be dislodged from a position of power, causing him to come out.
Katatagae no jutsu is the sudden, tiny, but decisive advantage delivered to the small by the inevitable trail of consequence the large leave behind.
How foolish to believe that the movement of an army leaves no trace!
How unlessoned is the commander, who believes because he has decided, and his army sallies forth, that the greater mind is his.
The narcissist does not dysregulated, and allow his vision to fall into such idiot arrogance.
The Machiavellian does not assume his own initiative by fiat has won the day.
The psychopath does not act on impulse, but remains well-postured and appropriate as he cuts.
Understand that the principles of the shinobi warriors can be applied in myriad ways!
When angry manifesto is wrung out from the prisoner, cannot doubt be subtly inserted in his heart for later exploitation?
With new entrance into a market is effected, and company executives are confident, what focus is there on the quiet new hire in a lateral department?
When political adversaries launch onslaught of propaganda, what secrets are already under scrutiny by opposing operatives?
Apply well to your life, and understand the essential nature of katatagae no jutsu.
The sudden attack is the moment to penetrate.
The broad declaration is the timing to undermine.
The certainty of victory opens men up to overthrow.
Katatagae no jutsu demands swiftness, incisiveness, and determined heart.
It is the swing of weighted consequence into the rear of a commander’s ego, much as the iron ring of the kyoketsu shoge spins and slams from behind.
Understand the danger of movement, for without movement there is no gap.
Understand the stillness of competence, and the regulation that goes beyond patience into enlightenment.
The competing passions of men, and their inevitable ego and vanity,
Will inexorably lead them to move.
The more they estimate their power,
The greater the gap they leave for the ninja.
If you fear the ninja, look to your sins.
Katatagae no jutsu demands kyojitsu tenkan ho, as do all principles of the ninja.
Turn all tools against your predilections for gap and ego and arrogance arise.
Know where your vanity and pride and greed cause you to deserve death.
Never forget that Heaven favors its own mandate, and not the ambitions of men.
Using the above, you should fathom the enemy and contemplate your own nature.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Evil karma.
This concludes the eighth of the Kurai no Sanko program lessons.
As ninja you will bear responsibility for correct understanding, and proper employment, of these methods.
Never fail to understand that your ego, your sense of separateness of self from all things,
Is the cackling leer of a liar, who was a liar from the beginning.
Heaven does not make exceptions for you.
Truth does not alter itself for you.
Justice does not balance itself for you.
The infinite gulf will never make way for you.
Stare inside, and do not fail to see your conscience.
The voice of your conscience foretells judgment before God.
Before you do evil, you do not need warning of karma.
The moment you think evil, stain spreads in the heart and mind and body.
Therefore one may recognize evil when it walks, to and fro across the Earth,
For the ninja is faceless before God, an instrument of Heaven,
And not mere contemptible, disreputable thief.
The Crown is the fountain of honor,
But Heaven dispenses justice.
Think well.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative:
Using the above, you should fathom the enemy and contemplate your own nature.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Evil karma.
This concludes the eighth of the Kurai no Sanko program lessons.
As ninja you will bear responsibility for correct understanding, and proper employment, of these methods.
Never fail to understand that your ego, your sense of separateness of self from all things,
Is the cackling leer of a liar, who was a liar from the beginning.
Heaven does not make exceptions for you.
Truth does not alter itself for you.
Justice does not balance itself for you.
The infinite gulf will never make way for you.
Stare inside, and do not fail to see your conscience.
The voice of your conscience foretells judgment before God.
Before you do evil, you do not need warning of karma.
The moment you think evil, stain spreads in the heart and mind and body.
Therefore one may recognize evil when it walks, to and fro across the Earth,
For the ninja is faceless before God, an instrument of Heaven,
And not mere contemptible, disreputable thief.
The Crown is the fountain of honor,
But Heaven dispenses justice.
Think well.
Self assessment:
Thorough consideration of foundations are crucial to alteration of frame.
Where have you seen this lesson in your own life? Where do you see these create gaps for others to penetrate, or opportunities for you to apply?
Record your answers in a notebook or document so you can return to them later.
Focus on the dominant perceptions of those moments, and how they still ripple through your life as primary models of dominance and prerogative.
THE NINTH SCROLL
Live fealty.
誠心 SINCERITY
Our ninth lesson scroll the Kurai No Sanko program with the ninja method known as seishin.
誠心 seishin “sincerity” or “heart of truth” is the guiding principle for both ninja and commanders for their thought, word, and deed on Earth under Heaven.
The kanji 誠 sei has many powerful, fundamental meanings. It is not a mere simple word, but a profound conceptual principle that ties directly to the concept of Heaven. Truth, righteousness, fidelity, integrity, sincerity, honesty, absolutely, faithful, entire devotion, loyalty, and even gratitude are all aspects of this ultimate basic law of the ninja.
The kanji 心 shin is also a deeply conceptual dive into the many natures of Men. Mind, heart, spirit, meaning, core, sentiment, comfort, endeavor, and the true hidden purpose of the man.
Thereby 誠心 seishin pronounces the ultimate requirement for the total alignment of the ninja and it cannot be betrayed without collapse and overthrow of all things he touches.
This incredible responsibility therefore devolves into the demand of Heaven for the ninja to always maintain his state of pure, empty-minded worship of Heaven and utter alignment with Heaven’s principles to prevent the advancement of evil in the world.
This is a non-negotiable aspect of the ninja arts and those who go against these principles or forget them, will assuredly bring devastation to themselves, the lord, the province, and the nation.
The Bansenshukai delivers firm and unhesitating direction for the great Way on which the ninja must live and work without stumble:
What we call Correct Mind is about keeping benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and fidelity in check. Without these factors in mind, you cannot attain any great courageous achievement nor fulfill any tactics required for the circumstances at hand.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
These qualities of benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity are ultimately the ingredients of fealty, without which any action is selfish and destructive and offensive to God.
Understand this well! There are no exceptions to the Way of Heaven, for narrow is the road and straight is the gate that leads to salvation through fealty.
Thus the dread lord may arise, who is the anointed Son of Heaven who rules by principles and not by nature, and all efforts absent this state of seishin commits horror and spreads foulness.
Therefore you must know yourself, empty your heart of desire. This is a deep and immovable truth of the nature of Men.渇愛 katsuai or “thirst affection” is the demand within this broader concept of 心 shin heart, mind, and actual purpose for things to be what they are not, or to not be what they are.
This is attachment to lie, this is deviation from pure heart. 渇愛 katsuai is akin to the concept of sin, literally “turning away from God” to pursue desires of nature and not the principles of Heaven which constitute the great Way on which you are commanded to walk on pain of damnation in this world and the next.
Once more the Bansenshukai drives unerringly to the heart of truth:
In heaven there are principles while in humans there is nature.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
How does one enable, embody, and employ 誠心 seishin without fail, and without affection for the thirst for lies which is your nature?
Return to the truths of the Way of Heaven, and understand deeply that there is no violation of the Way without consequence, even to future generations.
Benevolence is recognition that Heaven “bestows innumerable gifts upon Men” as the savage Seven Kill Tiger acknowledged before the world.
Righteousness comes only through fulfillment of Heaven’s will, and never through the accomplishment of tawdry and futile human aggrandizement.
Loyalty to Heaven itself is fundamental to the heart of the warrior, the heart of the priest, and must be guiding principle for all who do their dangerous work in the dark.
Fidelity to the Way of Heaven is prerequisite for those who would know truth, correctly observe the hearts of men, and thereby see the gaps that are created.
For the sins of Men are the gates of Hell, and the ninja may sit beside the gate and observe those who pass through.
Within this movement of evil, there is the victorious mandate of Heaven which can be seen if one is congruent in heart, mind, and body with the Way.
The ninja therefore is both warrior and priest, in and yo, overt and covert, able to tumble and turn the ten thousand things and see the Will of Heaven through knowledge of principles and accordance with those principles without fail.
Thus the admonition of the ninja is now clear. Ninpo ikkan magokoro ni masare! is the vow of the ninja for all time and space:
“Persevere pure heart law always.”
There is no exception, only invitation to evil and murder:
The mind of man is easily affected by what the eye sees, worries about what the ear hears, is absorbed in what the nose smells, indulges in the five tastes the tongue tastes and allows the body to give in to lust. It gives way to the selfish desires of the six sense organs and no matter if the action is on any path of righteousness, people will do anything to satisfy their self-interest at a particular time. That is exactly what the mind of man is. If you depend on the mind of man, it will turn out that you will ruin yourself, no matter how good it seems at first. In the end all will be a total failure.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
To maintain 誠心 seishin is to reject the path of evil.
To reject 誠心 seishin is reject the path of the Divine.
The character 心 shin or heart, mind, true purpose can also be written as 神 shin which means divine, godly, secret, sanctity, dignity.
Therefore 誠心 seishin is the hidden thunder of God, poured ceaselessly from Heaven through the empty vessel of the correct heart.
Serve God, and live well.
God command.
The counselor to the king must embody the correct mind and correct heart without fail, or he will bring evil into the realm, suffering to the people, and collapse of the nation.
The court of the Sovereign is ever a hideous maelstrom of competing thirsts and ambitions, where ruthless cruelty crosses the will of God and drives foulness into purpose.
Benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity are prerequisites for the guidance of kings and the delivery of kingcraft that is pleasing to God and the unfolding of history.
Advisors to the Crown do not work in the common realm of mere individual lusts, private ambitions, or the fluttered demands of human hearts. Ephesians 6:12 gives clear warning:
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.THE KING JAMES BIBLE
The highest duty in counsel to the throne is to protect the Crown and the realm from the evil of sin that destroys all.
Errors of heart become errors in righteousness, which manifest as injustice and cruelty by the lords of the king. Those lords embrace arrogance with each step into sin, and become unrestrained in their pursuit of lust, greed, pride, and wrath within the suzerainty of their subdomains.
Therefore the correct guidance of the Sovereign at times demands opposition and entanglement of his earls and barons, for even though their loyalty and fidelity to the Crown may be absolute… their true heart is one of disgrace, selfishness, and contradiction to the Way of Heaven.
Such influence in the court inevitably draws, as gravity pulls and fluids descend in their own path, to the degeneracy of community within the court, thence to the culture of the nation, and finally to control of the realm in the sway and topple of destruction.
The great difference between loyalty and fealty is paramount for the advisor to the king to comprehend, to understand, and to work within.
“Men follow their hearts” is shallow, and expedient, and transient in the great decisions of fealty before God.
For God has principles, Heaven has the Way, and men have natures which are inseparable from them:.
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.THE KING JAMES BIBLE
The counsel to the throne must eternally bear witness to the principles of Heaven and lead the ruler to the correct mind and correct heart.
Kings are still men, and men have their nature, and as such are swayed and pulled to the flesh, the eyes, the pride of authority and majesty.
How more so are the barons and earls of the court, who count ambition and ascendancy as the highest desire, and accord their desires as the fate God has bestowed upon them?
Therefore the true retainer, motivated by benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity, with correct heart and correct mind, is the natural and despised adversary of the Court.
Those who disdain benevolence in pursuit of greed, see their own stain reflected in the calm observation of the man with correct heart.
Those who discard righteousness in chase after their own aggrandizement and admiration, sow evil and justified anger in the path behind them.
Those who dissipate loyalty as hindrance to expediency and secret profit, spread degeneracy and collapse the heart of the kingdom.
Those who disbelieve fidelity as the correct heart of the Way of Heaven and the command of the living God, are the death of all they touch.
And these things are the nature of men, without exception.
The counselor to the Crown must never forget that he works not against the intrigues of barons, the ambitions of earls, the greed of knights or the ugly pride of arrogant priests.
He must adhere to the Way without stumble or segue, guide the throne without resentment or jealousy, and never forget that the correctness of his heart and mind are all that stands between the future of the realm, the safety of his Sovereign, and the continuance of the dynasty in a fallen world of evil.
Your benevolence must extend to the childish whims of the king, in the knowledge that men are but children.
Your righteousness must radiate into the heart of the tempted ruler, and thereby light his steps under Heaven.
Your loyalty must extend past desires, and place the fate and future of the realm above your own body.
Your fidelity to the Way of Heaven must surpass all things, even when the consequence is your death.
For through these things, God speaks to the soul of the king with example both sublime and immortal.
Even in death, never let go of the Way.
Remember again the testimony of Sir Thomas More, on the scaffold below the axe:
I die the King’s good servant, but God’s first.
Exorcism.
What is the relation of 誠心 seishin to the man who understands the power of regulated narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy?
Exorcism is the great method through which extreme regulation must take place, when overstep or insufficiency have betrayed their presence.
Seishin is an absolute, the infinitely sharp edge of accuracy on which the sovereign individual must accord his mass, trajectory, and momentum.
What foolishness it is to believe that one may dispute and overcome the very nature of the world!
For to grasp the finite, in vain hope that the ego of the individual surmounts the practical reality of existence, is pointless idiocy.
The narcissist pours his power into the establishment of vision from correct heart, knowing that error compounds exponentially to death.
The Machiavellian accords the tumble and turn of concealment and posture and all other modalities, from the grave and sacred adherence to truth.
The psychopath executes without pity, having in forefront of his entire being the principles of benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity.
With these great strictures of the Way, how can one fail to persevere and endure and deliver the inexorable justice of Heaven into the world?
The answer is simple, and profound, and inescapable through the very design of all things that form and disappear in Creation.
There is truth, and there is lie.
There is what is, and there is not what is not.
The entire structure of the ten thousand things arises from the interplay of in and yo, from the light and the dark.
All things return to the One.
Thus the narcissist who dreams of the future, the Machiavellian who lays plan for achievement, and the psychopath who delivers with the thunder of God upon the Earth, understands and submits wholly to reality.
Lies are not the Way. Do not lie.
Seishin does not sustain it.
The fate of all that you do, all that you plan, all that you see as potentiality to manifest, will tumble and turn, live and die, in accordance with your adherence to the great Way that Heaven ceaselessly emanates.
This fatal, dying, dark and finite world is an infinitesimal nothing in contrast.
Just as you are a man, you are inherently finite, vanishing, with only your true heart the remnant of what you were.
It is useless to decry this, to fantasize great stratagems against Heaven, to deny the will of God, or expect the Way to be altered for the benefit of your sense of separateness of self from the very river of which you are simply a moment’s drop.
You must understand this well.
Heaven is pitiless by principle, for Heaven is the pillars upon which the Earth has been delivered to Men.
Your desire for things to be other than they are, is the mark of a petulant and unreasoning child.
Your secret belief that you are exceptional before Heaven is the direct work of the Adversary.
The death and damnation of all your works, all your plans, all your achievements, and the corruption of vision rests in this singularly inevitable understanding.
Contemplate this well, from John 8:44:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.THE KING JAMES BIBLE
Seishin is not negotiable.
The dark world will not change for you.
Heaven hears no prayers of pride.
Your ego is your road to death.
Exorcise it.
If you do not throw away your concern about yourself, your mind will do harm to you in the end.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Final death.
This lesson concludes the ninth and final scroll of the Kurai no Sanko program.
The ninja is a warrior, a priest, a counselor, a steward of the work of God in the world of Men.
To this end, Heaven has endowed the ninja with perception, perspective, principles, and power.
You will bear final and fatal accountability for your mind, your heart, and your conduct.
Thought, word, and deed must align.
Deviation of thought from principles of the Way brings ruination to all that you encounter.
Corruption of word from the sacredness of truth destroys plans, and realms, and futures.
Infection of deed with amoral impulse slaughters benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity.
Adhere to the Way, with correct heart and mind and hand or you do great and befouling evil.
You are a subject of God, within the principalities of Men, in a dark world that must collapse.
Bear this in your heart. Cement it to your mind. Foster it in your works.
There is only the razor of truth, of reality, of Heaven’s principles or there is lie.
It is binary, the spinning black and white card of The Nine Laws that you must never forget.
There is more, much more, that the ninja know, and put to work in the service of what must be.
You have begun this great journey as a man set apart to do the work of God within the dark.
Your continued advancement is necessary, and crucial, to prevent corruption and stumble,
But the Way at deeper levels must come directly.
Here the Kurai No Sanko concludes, with the warning to those who seek mere entertainment, and do not hold fealty to Heaven within themselves, but rather corruption of the Way and the inability to responsibly exercise unstoppable, inexorable, inevitable delivery of fate:
The rest is oral transmission.THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
What we call Correct Mind is about keeping benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and fidelity in check. Without these factors in mind, you cannot attain any great courageous achievement nor fulfill any tactics required for the circumstances at hand.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
These qualities of benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity are ultimately the ingredients of fealty, without which any action is selfish and destructive and offensive to God.
Understand this well! There are no exceptions to the Way of Heaven, for narrow is the road and straight is the gate that leads to salvation through fealty.
Thus the dread lord may arise, who is the anointed Son of Heaven who rules by principles and not by nature, and all efforts absent this state of seishin commits horror and spreads foulness.
Therefore you must know yourself, empty your heart of desire. This is a deep and immovable truth of the nature of Men.渇愛 katsuai or “thirst affection” is the demand within this broader concept of 心 shin heart, mind, and actual purpose for things to be what they are not, or to not be what they are.
This is attachment to lie, this is deviation from pure heart. 渇愛 katsuai is akin to the concept of sin, literally “turning away from God” to pursue desires of nature and not the principles of Heaven which constitute the great Way on which you are commanded to walk on pain of damnation in this world and the next.
Once more the Bansenshukai drives unerringly to the heart of truth:
In heaven there are principles while in humans there is nature.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
How does one enable, embody, and employ 誠心 seishin without fail, and without affection for the thirst for lies which is your nature?
Return to the truths of the Way of Heaven, and understand deeply that there is no violation of the Way without consequence, even to future generations.
Benevolence is recognition that Heaven “bestows innumerable gifts upon Men” as the savage Seven Kill Tiger acknowledged before the world.
Righteousness comes only through fulfillment of Heaven’s will, and never through the accomplishment of tawdry and futile human aggrandizement.
Loyalty to Heaven itself is fundamental to the heart of the warrior, the heart of the priest, and must be guiding principle for all who do their dangerous work in the dark.
Fidelity to the Way of Heaven is prerequisite for those who would know truth, correctly observe the hearts of men, and thereby see the gaps that are created.
For the sins of Men are the gates of Hell, and the ninja may sit beside the gate and observe those who pass through.
Within this movement of evil, there is the victorious mandate of Heaven which can be seen if one is congruent in heart, mind, and body with the Way.
The ninja therefore is both warrior and priest, in and yo, overt and covert, able to tumble and turn the ten thousand things and see the Will of Heaven through knowledge of principles and accordance with those principles without fail.
Thus the admonition of the ninja is now clear. Ninpo ikkan magokoro ni masare! is the vow of the ninja for all time and space:
“Persevere pure heart law always.”
There is no exception, only invitation to evil and murder:
The mind of man is easily affected by what the eye sees, worries about what the ear hears, is absorbed in what the nose smells, indulges in the five tastes the tongue tastes and allows the body to give in to lust. It gives way to the selfish desires of the six sense organs and no matter if the action is on any path of righteousness, people will do anything to satisfy their self-interest at a particular time. That is exactly what the mind of man is. If you depend on the mind of man, it will turn out that you will ruin yourself, no matter how good it seems at first. In the end all will be a total failure.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
To maintain 誠心 seishin is to reject the path of evil.
To reject 誠心 seishin is reject the path of the Divine.
The character 心 shin or heart, mind, true purpose can also be written as 神 shin which means divine, godly, secret, sanctity, dignity.
Therefore 誠心 seishin is the hidden thunder of God, poured ceaselessly from Heaven through the empty vessel of the correct heart.
Serve God, and live well.
God command.
The counselor to the king must embody the correct mind and correct heart without fail, or he will bring evil into the realm, suffering to the people, and collapse of the nation.
The court of the Sovereign is ever a hideous maelstrom of competing thirsts and ambitions, where ruthless cruelty crosses the will of God and drives foulness into purpose.
Benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity are prerequisites for the guidance of kings and the delivery of kingcraft that is pleasing to God and the unfolding of history.
Advisors to the Crown do not work in the common realm of mere individual lusts, private ambitions, or the fluttered demands of human hearts. Ephesians 6:12 gives clear warning:
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
THE KING JAMES BIBLE
The highest duty in counsel to the throne is to protect the Crown and the realm from the evil of sin that destroys all.
Errors of heart become errors in righteousness, which manifest as injustice and cruelty by the lords of the king. Those lords embrace arrogance with each step into sin, and become unrestrained in their pursuit of lust, greed, pride, and wrath within the suzerainty of their subdomains.
Therefore the correct guidance of the Sovereign at times demands opposition and entanglement of his earls and barons, for even though their loyalty and fidelity to the Crown may be absolute… their true heart is one of disgrace, selfishness, and contradiction to the Way of Heaven.
Such influence in the court inevitably draws, as gravity pulls and fluids descend in their own path, to the degeneracy of community within the court, thence to the culture of the nation, and finally to control of the realm in the sway and topple of destruction.
The great difference between loyalty and fealty is paramount for the advisor to the king to comprehend, to understand, and to work within.
“Men follow their hearts” is shallow, and expedient, and transient in the great decisions of fealty before God.
For God has principles, Heaven has the Way, and men have natures which are inseparable from them:
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
THE KING JAMES BIBLE
The counsel to the throne must eternally bear witness to the principles of Heaven and lead the ruler to the correct mind and correct heart.
Kings are still men, and men have their nature, and as such are swayed and pulled to the flesh, the eyes, the pride of authority and majesty.
How more so are the barons and earls of the court, who count ambition and ascendancy as the highest desire, and accord their desires as the fate God has bestowed upon them?
Therefore the true retainer, motivated by benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity, with correct heart and correct mind, is the natural and despised adversary of the Court.
Those who disdain benevolence in pursuit of greed, see their own stain reflected in the calm observation of the man with correct heart.
Those who discard righteousness in chase after their own aggrandizement and admiration, sow evil and justified anger in the path behind them.
Those who dissipate loyalty as hindrance to expediency and secret profit, spread degeneracy and collapse the heart of the kingdom.
Those who disbelieve fidelity as the correct heart of the Way of Heaven and the command of the living God, are the death of all they touch.
And these things are the nature of men, without exception.
The counselor to the Crown must never forget that he works not against the intrigues of barons, the ambitions of earls, the greed of knights or the ugly pride of arrogant priests.
He must adhere to the Way without stumble or segue, guide the throne without resentment or jealousy, and never forget that the correctness of his heart and mind are all that stands between the future of the realm, the safety of his Sovereign, and the continuance of the dynasty in a fallen world of evil.
Your benevolence must extend to the childish whims of the king, in the knowledge that men are but children.
Your righteousness must radiate into the heart of the tempted ruler, and thereby light his steps under Heaven.
Your loyalty must extend past desires, and place the fate and future of the realm above your own body.
Your fidelity to the Way of Heaven must surpass all things, even when the consequence is your death.
For through these things, God speaks to the soul of the king with example both sublime and immortal.
Even in death, never let go of the Way.
Remember again the testimony of Sir Thomas More, on the scaffold below the axe:
I die the King’s good servant, but God’s first.
Exorcism.
What is the relation of 誠心 seishin to the man who understands the power of regulated narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy?
Exorcism is the great method through which extreme regulation must take place, when overstep or insufficiency have betrayed their presence.
Seishin is an absolute, the infinitely sharp edge of accuracy on which the sovereign individual must accord his mass, trajectory, and momentum.
What foolishness it is to believe that one may dispute and overcome the very nature of the world!
For to grasp the finite, in vain hope that the ego of the individual surmounts the practical reality of existence, is pointless idiocy.
The narcissist pours his power into the establishment of vision from correct heart, knowing that error compounds exponentially to death.
The Machiavellian accords the tumble and turn of concealment and posture and all other modalities, from the grave and sacred adherence to truth.
The psychopath executes without pity, having in forefront of his entire being the principles of benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity.
With these great strictures of the Way, how can one fail to persevere and endure and deliver the inexorable justice of Heaven into the world?
The answer is simple, and profound, and inescapable through the very design of all things that form and disappear in Creation.
There is truth, and there is lie.
There is what is, and there is not what is not.
The entire structure of the ten thousand things arises from the interplay of in and yo, from the light and the dark.
All things return to the One.
Thus the narcissist who dreams of the future, the Machiavellian who lays plan for achievement, and the psychopath who delivers with the thunder of God upon the Earth, understands and submits wholly to reality.
Lies are not the Way. Do not lie.
Seishin does not sustain it.
The fate of all that you do, all that you plan, all that you see as potentiality to manifest, will tumble and turn, live and die, in accordance with your adherence to the great Way that Heaven ceaselessly emanates.
This fatal, dying, dark and finite world is an infinitesimal nothing in contrast.
Just as you are a man, you are inherently finite, vanishing, with only your true heart the remnant of what you were.
It is useless to decry this, to fantasize great stratagems against Heaven, to deny the will of God, or expect the Way to be altered for the benefit of your sense of separateness of self from the very river of which you are simply a moment’s drop.
You must understand this well.
Heaven is pitiless by principle, for Heaven is the pillars upon which the Earth has been delivered to Men.
Your desire for things to be other than they are, is the mark of a petulant and unreasoning child.
Your secret belief that you are exceptional before Heaven is the direct work of the Adversary.
The death and damnation of all your works, all your plans, all your achievements, and the corruption of vision rests in this singularly inevitable understanding.
Contemplate this well, from John 8:44:
Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
THE KING JAMES BIBLE
Seishin is not negotiable.
The dark world will not change for you.
Heaven hears no prayers of pride.
Your ego is your road to death.
Exorcise it:
If you do not throw away your concern about yourself, your mind will do harm to you in the end.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
Final death.
This lesson concludes the ninth and final scroll of the Kurai no Sanko program.
The ninja is a warrior, a priest, a counselor, a steward of the work of God in the world of Men.
To this end, Heaven has endowed the ninja with perception, perspective, principles, and power.
You will bear final and fatal accountability for your mind, your heart, and your conduct.
Thought, word, and deed must align.
Deviation of thought from principles of the Way brings ruination to all that you encounter.
Corruption of word from the sacredness of truth destroys plans, and realms, and futures.
Infection of deed with amoral impulse slaughters benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, and fidelity.
Adhere to the Way, with correct heart and mind and hand or you do great and befouling evil.
You are a subject of God, within the principalities of Men, in a dark world that must collapse.
Bear this in your heart. Cement it to your mind. Foster it in your works.
There is only the razor of truth, of reality, of Heaven’s principles or there is lie.
It is binary, the spinning black and white card of The Nine Laws that you must never forget.
There is more, much more, that the ninja know, and put to work in the service of what must be.
You have begun this great journey as a man set apart to do the work of God within the dark.
Your continued advancement is necessary, and crucial, to prevent corruption and stumble,
But the Way at deeper levels must come directly.
Here the Kurai No Sanko concludes, with the warning to those who seek mere entertainment, and do not hold fealty to Heaven within themselves, but rather corruption of the Way and the inability to responsibly exercise unstoppable, inexorable, inevitable delivery of fate:
The rest is oral transmission.
THE BANSENSHUKAI (CUMMINS, 2013)
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