#tenbu hourin

[houseoflibra]

Saint Seiya: The Lost Canvas – Bangai-hen The Land of Wind (Part 3)

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Asmita: - (So that's Sisyphus's brother, the hero, Leo Ilias…) - (What an incredible presence… but…) - (I'm finally face to face…) - (…with someone who has awakened to the Eighth Consciousness!!…)

Sisyphus: - Oh… - Is that really you, brother? - Hasgard and Regulus… - …were convinced you were dead.

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Ilias: - In which dimension… - …would that be, Sisyphus?

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Sisyphus: - Wha…

Ilias: - I see… the "death" of the physical body… - It merely fulfilled its destiny in that life. - That's all. - Death is never final by nature. - It is a change of state, an ascension in the dimension of the soul.

Asmita: - …

Sisyphus: - Hahah… You haven't changed. - This brings back memories… - You really are my brother.

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Sisyphus: - "A change of state"?… - If death is such a trivial thing to you, brother… - …why didn't you come back to Sanctuary?! - You should know! Sanctuary… the world is under threat by Hades! - And Regulus struggled to survive in the forest after you were gone!… - Are you saying you just stood back and watched all that happen?!

Ilias: - You've not changed either, Sisyphus.

Sisyphus: - !… - What does that mean?

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Sisyphus: - Woooh!

Asmita: - Sisyphus!! - …!! - (When did he…?)

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Ilias: - What do you think… - …selfish Asmita?

Asmita: - !… - You came here because you wanted to talk to me. - You understand, don't you?

Sisyphus: - …

Asmita: - … - Yes… - I have felt your faint presence in the wind… - …ever since I arrived at Sanctuary. - You must have felt it too, Sisyphus.

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Asmita: - But whenever I felt your presence, I was reminded of my own immaturity. - It was as if the higher dimension where you exist was just beyond a thin, impenetrable membrane. - But now here you are before me. - So show me… - …your true nature… - …your Eighth Consciousness…

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Asmita: - Tenbu Hourin

Sisyphus: - This… I've heard rumours about it… - Virgo's greatest secret technique!!

Asmita: - This technique takes away the enemy's five senses according to my will. - In other words, it's a form that combines offense and defense.

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Asmita: - For someone like you, who has no physical body, robbing you of your senses… - …means stripping away and baring your very soul!! - Deprivation of the senses!!!

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Asmita: - Now let's see what remains in the end… - Show me everything, Ilias!!

Sisyphus: - Asmita, don't!! - Do not underestimate how terrifying my brother can be…!!

Asmita: - …!!

Ilias: - I see. That's certainly an interesting technique. - Then I shall also ask you who you are.

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Ilias: - I'll strip away your senses…

Asmita: - What?!! - You broke through my Tenbu Hourin?!

Sisyphus: - Get out of his way, Asmita!! - My brother doesn't know restraint!!

Asmita: - Wooooh…!

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Ilias: - I'm glad, Asmita… - …that someone like you is growing up in Sanctuary. - You have individually sought your own senses… - …and constructed a tenacious sense of enlightenment and worldview within you. - That gave you enough strength to create the Tenbu Hourin… - …from your own domain of thoughts within my domain of thoughts.

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Ilias: - But you still lack maturity. - You should realize that one more time.

Sisyphus: - !!

Ilias: - Lightning Plasma…

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Asmita & Sisyphus: - Aaaaaughhh!!

Asmita: - (I'm overwhelmed! I can't sustain myself…) - (It feels like I'm going to be scattered to pieces within Ilias's domain…) - (I see now… This is a world where Ilias's intense thoughts can become reality.) - (In other words, it's a world where a phenomenon will not become real unless I believe in it.) - (I have to preserve my senses, and look deeper… and deeper…) - (…and deeper…)

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Asmita: - (…into myself…)

Ilias: - All those we call wise men and who were once born on earth… - …awakened to the Eighth Consciousness through meditation, prayer, and self-discovery. - That's right. Cosmo… - …and the Eighth Consciousness are not exclusive to Saints. - By nature, it is a mental state that everybody who lives on this planet should strive to attain. - Prayers, wishes and thoughts come into harmony with the universe and become the source of cosmo. - They transcend time and space to become a power for realization… a power for miracles.

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Ilias: - But in the future, the people of earth will forget this. - They will laugh at prayers, wishes, and harmony. - They will enter an era of lies and exploitation, destruction and division. - And "according to prophecy…" - "A gourd full of ashes will fall on the land of the sun."

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Sisyphus: - Asmita!!…

Asmita: - (No…) - (Whether you turn inward or outward, what you end up reaching is the root of the universe.) - (In that case, let's go to the very end…)

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Sisyphus: - Asmita's cosmo is rising…

Ilias: - He's remaking this field of thoughts…

Asmita: - (It's incredible… It's as if I was freed from some kind of yoke.) - (As if I've known all along…) - (…the workings of the world… I understand who I am…) - (My thoughts transcend both time and space.) - (Yes, without hesitation, I can always be…)

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Asmita: - (…myself.)

Sisyphus: - The House of Virgo… - No way… these are… - …Asmita's thoughts…

Ilias: - You've awakened… Asmita.

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Asmita: - Yes. - I am simply one part of the fundamental universe. - And so are you… and so is every life that is connected.

Ilias: - Yes, with this, even if you are in the underworld… - …or when you look out into eternal time, you will not lose yourself. - Sisyphus, you will soon awaken too. - I can see it. - Well… one day, far into the future, all the people of this Earth will awaken. - And when that time comes, people will no longer be deceived by Hades or any kind of evil.

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Asmita: - But, Ilias… - You and Arkhes have both said it. - You said that, in the future, people will enter into an era of material destruction and division.

Ilias: - Yes. - People will make mistakes over and over again. - Because their souls are as immature as babies. - In fact, humanity repeatedly experiences destruction, learning and awakening, over and over again. - That is what Athena loves about it and what we must protect… - …until this earth becomes a true Elysium.

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Asmita & Sisyphus: - Yes!

Sisyphus: - Brother… - You once told me to remain as I am. - If I do, I'll be reunited with you… - …right?

Ilias: - Yes. - I am in all things. - I am beside you and beside Regulus too.

Sisyphus: - (After that…)

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Sisyphus: - (…Asmita went to the Underworld…) - (…and the Holy War reached its climax.) - (We burned our lives and our souls cried out:) - (Awaken!) The End

[neiru2013]

Tenbu Hourin (Heavenly Dancing Treasure Wheel)

This is Virgo's most powerful attack and invariably involves him opening his eyes. As both an offensive and defensive technique, it incapacitates Virgo's opponents and leaves them completely at his mercy.

It is based on the Buddhist understanding of reality, where the mortal senses (Five Aggregates) are treated as hindrances to the perception of ultimate truth. In this way Tenbu Hourin can be linked to the Heart (of Wisdom) Sutra:

In emptiness, there is no body, no feeling, no thought, no will, no consciousness. There are no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. There is no seeing, no hearing, no smelling, no tasting, no touching, no imagining.

And so, at Virgo's command, Tenbu Hourin strips his victims of touch, taste, sight, hearing, smell, and even the 6th sense of the mind, leaving behind a living corpse. Unless, of course, they are able to transcend this and achieve the 7th sense.