Mind Penetration by Lung Haha;

Author:Lung, Haha; [Lung, Dr. Haha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2014-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

The Black Lotus

The ideal of the Eastern beauty—the geisha, the concubine—will forever fascinate the West.

While we cannot help but be captivated by their beauty, their demure manner, there are all too many historical glimpses of the will and wile—and perhaps wickedness—lying just below the surface, behind the veil, beneath the silk?

In fiction, there’s the melodic-voiced bride Scheherazade of 1001 Arabian Nights, mesmerizing her husband with her tales.

On of the most dreadful killer cults ever spawned, the dreaded Thuggee of India, worshipped not a manly war-god, but rather the black-tongued, fierce-eyed bitch goddess Kali. (See Lung, 1995.)

Then there’s the insightful twelfth-century Tantric Master Mahade-viyakka we talked about in chapter 6.

In the twentieth century, Indira Gandhi ruled India willfully well, until her assassination in 1984.

The Chinese had their classical heroine Mulan, as well as scores of twentieth-century Red Guard women warriors.

And while we always hear about the “Brothers” of Shaolin, that Order had a nun’s branch as well.

In fact it was a Shaolin Buddhist nun who taught runaway bride Yim Wing Chun Shaolin boxing, allowing her to fight her way out of a forced marriage. Today there is a martial art that still bears her name: Wing Chun, the art that launched Bruce Lee’s career.

Like Wing Chun the martial art, women in China (as perhaps women everywhere) mastered the concept of Shun, which literally means “compliance” but which implies “going with the flow.”

Knowing they couldn’t fight a superior force, superior strength, they adopted the philosophy of “give way in order to get your way,” the Judo principle.

Chinese women didn’t need Sun Tzu to tell them: “When strong, appear weak.”

Nonetheless, Shaolin nuns also took Sun Tzu’s philosophy, the fighting arts they had learned inside the monastery walls, and everything else they could carry as they fled from the 1644 Manchu invasion.

Like their brother monks, those nuns who survived the Manchu massacre of the Shaolin Order are credited with (or else stand accused of) having founded their own triad—the Black Lotus—secret society (Seagrave, 1985):

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