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Techniques for nothingness: Debate over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen in early-twentieth-century Japan
Abstract
This paper explores a debate that took place in Japan in the early twentieth century over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen. The debate was among the first exchanges between psychology and Buddhism in Japan, and it cast doubt on previous assumptions that a clear boundary existed between the two fields. In the debate, we find that contemporaries readily incorporated ideas from psychology and Buddhism to reconstruct the experiences and concepts of hypnosis and Buddhist nothingness. The resulting new theories and techniques of nothingness were fruits of a fairly fluid boundary between the two fields. The debate, moreover, reveals that psychology tried to address the challenges and possibilities posed by religious introspective meditation and intuitive experiences in a positive way. In the end, however, psychology no longer regarded them as viable experimental or psychotherapeutic tools but merely as particular subjective experiences to be investigated and explained.
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This paper examines an early-twentieth-century Japanese debate over whether hypnosis and Zen are comparable mental states, showing that psychologists and Buddhist figures drew fluidly on each other’s concepts before ultimately separating abnormal/pathological hypnosis from transcendental Zen. The debate reveals both attempts to integrate psychology and Buddhism and the boundary-work that later made religious experience an object of psychological study rather than a psychotherapeutic or experimental tool.
Key findings
- Fukurai Tomokichi argued in a 1908 article that Zen was simply a state of hypnosis, comparing induction methods, illusions/hallucinations, and brain anemia; Ono Fukuhei promoted hypnosis as “experimental Zen” to replace sitting-Zen.
- Opponents including Shaku Sōyen, Okada Gihō, Motora Yūjirō, and Iritani Tomosada distinguished hypnosis as passive, abnormal, or pathological from Zen as active, transcendental, or awakening; Sōyen divided Zen into five levels and said only gedō Zen might resemble hypnosis.
- The debate subsided after 1912 without resolution; psychology came to treat religious experiences as particular subjective experiences to investigate and explain, not as viable experimental or psychotherapeutic tools, while hypnotism increasingly moved toward occult reijutsu.
- The paper argues the boundary between psychology and Buddhism was fluid, with mutual borrowing, and that the Zen-hypnosis comparison anticipated later indigenous psychotherapies such as Morita therapy and Naikan therapy.
Methods
- Historical and intellectual-history analysis of a debate in early-twentieth-century Japan, based on published writings, articles, books, and speeches by psychologists, hypnotists, and Zen figures.
- Sources include Fukurai’s *Saimin Shinrigaku* and 1908 article, Ono’s *Ono Saimingaku*, Murakami’s lectures, Sōyen’s “What Is Enlightenment?” and *Seiza no Susume*, Okada’s *Zengaku Kōyō*, Motora’s writings, and Iritani’s *Zen no Shirimato Kenkyū*.
- Analysis is qualitative and contextual, tracing arguments, concepts such as nothingness, attention, brain anemia, and suggestion, and boundary-work; no quantitative data or formal sampling are reported.
Limitations
- The paper states that the long and rich history of Zen Buddhism in Japan is beyond its scope.
- No formal limitations section is provided; the study is based on published contemporary texts and does not report systematic sampling or quantitative measures (evident from the text).
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“This paper explores a debate that took place in Japan in the early twentieth century over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen.”
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“In the early twentieth century, a debate took place over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen in Japan.”
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“contemporaries readily incorporated ideas from psychology and Buddhism to reconstruct the experiences and concepts of hypnosis and Buddhist nothingness.”
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“it cast doubt on previous assumptions that a clear boundary existed between the two fields.”
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“it cast doubt on previous assumptions that a clear boundary existed between the two fields.”
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“some psychology scholars and intellectuals had tried to address the challenges and possibilities posed by Buddhist introspective meditation and intuitive experiences in a productive way, attempting to use them as a window into the inner psyche, and as psychotherapeutic methods.”
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“With these reforms, Zen became fashionable again in the 'era of anguish' of the early twentieth century.”
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“Furthermore, some of them increasingly saw the enhancement of suggestibility as morally and socially dangerous, particularly when crowd psychology became a subject of concern in the wake of a series of social disturbances beginning in 1905.”
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“However, Inoue held conflicting views on the nothingness of hypnosis.”
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“Dr. Majima Tōhaku, the first physician committed to hypnotherapy in Japan, similarly described hypnosis as a state of 'no self'.”
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“Sitting-Zen, as a health, therapeutic, and cultivation method, was often compared to other methods with similar objectives, including hypnosis.”
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“In other words, he seems to have regarded hypnosis as abnormal and pathological instead of sacred and transcendental.”
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“Those involved included leading contemporary psychologists and Zen masters.”
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“the few studies that have touched upon the debate merely treat it as an example of the mystical turn of Japanese hypnotism.”
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“While the scientific and medical interest in hypnosis declined in the 1910s and 1920s, reijutsu flourished and formed a movement comparable to the modern occultist movements in the contemporary West.”
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“there were a considerable number of people hoping to find through hypnosis new forms of spirituality that were founded on and could be proved by science.”
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“some Enlightenment-oriented intellectuals attempted to use hypnosis to scientifically explain, and thus normalize or even pathologize, religious miracles and mystical phenomena.”
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“Hitherto, the debate has received little attention from historians of either Japanese hypnotism or religion”
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“a few Japanese intellectuals became attracted to this new science and medicine of mind. They sporadically introduced a wide range of Western theories and practices of hypnosis”
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“The debate was among the first exchanges between psychology and Buddhism in Japan”
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“The debate was among the first exchanges between psychology and Buddhism in Japan”
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“The first one developed around 1887, shortly after hypnosis was first known to the Japanese through intellectuals returning from studying abroad.”
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“However, a second and much larger wave of interest began in 1903 and continued to grow for about a decade.”
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“Unlike the first one, this new wave of interest was not dominated by intellectual elites. Of the wealth of publications on hypnosis in the last decade of the Meiji period (1867-1912), most were written for the general public.”
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“hypnotism figured prominently in contemporary discussions about science and religion.”
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“They proposed replacing Zen-sitting with hypnosis, claiming that hypnosis was a more reliable and efficient scientific method for the cultivation of Zen.”
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“They regarded hypnosis as a science capable of enlightening the Japanese people by providing rational explanations for all kinds of mystical phenomena.”
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“Insufficient attention has been paid to the significance of hypnotism, psychical research and reijutsu to the history of psychology.”
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“Some people argued that they were similar, even identical, mental states.”
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“In their hands, hypnosis developed into a variety of occult reijutsus (literally, spiritual techniques).”
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“Other people, however, denounced the comparison as misplaced and misleading, maintaining that the two mental states were absolutely different and utterly incomparable.”
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“Their efforts, however, failed to attract the attention of the wider public. Judging by the small number of publications on the subject, interest subsided for most of the 1890s and the early years of the new century.”
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“Whichever side they took, they all acknowledged that there were indeed resemblances between hypnosis and Zen, which they thought were important to grasping the nature of the two mental states, and thus needed to be explored and clarified.”
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“Although it was not until the early twentieth century that the comparison between hypnosis and Zen was earnestly pursued, some pioneers of hypnotism had noticed their similarity in the late 1880s.”
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“Self-cultivation became a major concern in the face of the intensifying competition and confusion of values.”
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“He linked the popularity of hypnosis with the rise of socialist and nihilistic thoughts in Japan,”
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“Takeuchi, for example, warned of the dangers of hypnosis, contending that hypnosis inevitably led to the enhancement of suggestibility.”
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“Like Moll, some medical doctors and intellectuals actively promoted the therapeutic use of hypnosis and suggestion, while at the same time they launched attacks on the misuse of hypnosis by lay healers and self-styled priests.”
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“Inoue described the cessation of conscious activity in hypnosis as a state of 'no will and no mind', which originally was a Buddhist idea, referring to a state of returning to the true self attained by eliminating all distracting and deluded thoughts.”
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“Many Zen masters began to put more emphasis on the worldly benefits of sitting-Zen, promoting it not only as a religious practice but also as a method of improving health, treating diseases, and cultivating oneself that could help practitioners gain happiness and success in this life.”
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“worried by lay hypnotists' extravagant claims, scientists and physicians began to express disapproval of hypnosis and to lobby the government to restrict its practice to medical doctors.”
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“Faced with such challenges, some Buddhist sects began to reform themselves to adapt to the new world, including Zen Buddhism.”
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“He categorized sitting-Zen as psychotherapy by self-power, whereas hypnosis, in his view, was psychotherapy by another's power.”
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“Contemporary interest in hypnosis came from several interrelated aspects. First, people sought in hypnotherapy an alternative cure-all. Second, some people regarded hypnosis as a technique of seeing into and controlling others' minds and hoped, by means of it, to have the upper hand in social relationships which were becoming increasingly complex at the turn of the century. Third, some people were”
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“Ōsawa Kenji, a physiology professor and then the head of the medical department of Tokyo Imperial University, once compared hypnosis to Zenjō (the Zen calm) and quoted a Zen master as saying that his 'sitting-Zen is also a hypnotic method.'”
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“By that term, however, he sometimes referred to habitual or reflex unconscious actions, and even to pathological states of losing self-awareness like somnambulism and fox possession, but sometimes to a state of pure innocence that belonged to the sacred Buddhist realm of 'no self.'”
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“Kondō Yoshizō held that, with higher mental functions coming to a halt, hypnotized subjects were like decerebrate animals;”
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“A variety of old and new cultivation methods were invented or reinvented, competing for the attention of those who wished to improve themselves and their life.”
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“There were also efforts to use the knowledge about modern physiology and psychology to elucidate and reinterpret the teachings of Zen.”
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“and regarded hypnosis as harmful to morality and health on both individual and collective levels.”
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“Although they championed the use of hypnosis for medical and correctional purposes, hypnosis, in their view, was of no spiritual significance; nor could it serve as a method of self-cultivation.”
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“It was natural that students of hypnosis and Zen began to make comparisons between the two extraordinary mental states. They attempted not only to explain Zen by hypnosis but also vice versa, and thereby reshaped their understanding of both Zen and hypnosis.”
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In the paper
“Inoue Enryō, a major philosopher, Buddhist reformer, and leading figure in hypnosis during the period, contended that the 'nothingness' of hypnosis, which he described as a state of 'no will and no mind,' was responsible for its therapeutic effects.”
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“Majima concluded that philosophy was vital to the fundamental understanding of hypnosis.”
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“An increasing number of people began to harbor doubts about the path the country had taken, and to feel discontent with the Western scientific materialist worldview.”
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“The government's subsequent religious policies, which were intended to build Shinto as the state religion, and the advent of Western modernity further undermined Buddhism's position.”
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“Questions were also raised about Western medicine, to which the government had granted monopoly power in 1874, with concerns growing that its emphasis on treating diseases, rather than strengthening constitutions, had led to the deterioration of national health.”
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“In his view, the two mental states were active and passive, respectively, and of different natures.”
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“These books covered the wide diversity of views currently circulating in the Western world.”
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“They mostly adopted the Nancy School theory and regarded hypnosis as a state of enhanced suggestibility.”
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“but at the same time, he equated the hypnotic nothingness with the Buddhist one, exalting it as the 'the original feature of the soul.'”
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“Some people remained interested in hypnosis, but most of them were concerned with its spiritual dimensions. They developed hypnosis into a variety of reijutsus and continued the mystical trend arising in the first decade of the twentieth century into the late 1920s.”
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“In the wake of a couple of high-profile scandals, hypnosis rapidly lost its appeal in the early 1910s.”
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“Many contemporary hypnotists had made similar attempts, particularly with regard to the technical side.”
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“Both kanhō and mashō , in Fukurai's view, were simply suggestive or autosuggestive phenomena.”
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“Instead, he stressed that the brain anemia in hypnosis was fundamentally different from that in sleep, for brain blood flow in hypnosis could change swiftly in response to suggestion, which he claimed to have confirmed by experimenting with Italian physiologist Angelo Mosso's technique of 'human circulation balance.'”
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“The only difference between hypnosis and Zen was that no-self was attained on one's own in the latter but with outside help in the former.”
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“Hypnosis, in his view, was a modern scientific method for Zen cultivation by which practitioners could attain the state of Zen in a reliable and efficient way.”
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“Kuwabara stressed that he had proved the teachings of Zen by hypnosis.”
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“They not only called for the teachings and practices of Zen to be modernized but also promoted hypnosis as a modern method of Zen cultivation.”
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“'From the perspective of psychology,' he wrote, 'hypnosis is the temporary halt of active mental activity' and could be simply described as 'a state of no self.'”
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“The most remarkable feature of Murakami's hypnosis is the exclusive emphasis that he placed on verbal suggestion.”
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“It was the manifestation of what Alfred Binet called 'the second personality,' which was equivalent to the 'fundamental mind' ( honshin ) and 'ontological essence' ( hontai ) in Buddhism.”
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“Although he held that hypnosis was physiologically a state of brain anemia,”
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“In this state of nothingness, he contended, the mind returned to its original nature and recovered its connection, as a small spirit, to the Great Spirit that was the source of the beings of the universe.”
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“For example, Kumashiro Hikotarō, another wellknown hypnotist of the time, posited that taking proper postures and doing deep abdominal breathing, which was a long-established method for Zen cultivation, was an effective way to induce brain anemia, which, in turn, was essential to achieving quietness and the state of no will and no thought.”
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“Although they used different methods, hypnosis and Zen cultivation had exactly the same goals and effects.”
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“Based on these comparisons, Fukurai, in a 1908 article, contended that Zen was simply a state of hypnosis, and hoped that further comparative study would provide a full psychological account of the two mental states.”
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“First, he compared their respective methods of achieving nothingness, finding that the meditation methods of Zen, including introspective meditation and kōan meditation, were much the same as the fixed-gaze method of hypnotic induction in terms of mechanism and effects.”
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“Fukurai's claim that hypnosis and Zen were the same mental states provoked much discussion, prompting leading figures in Zen Buddhism and psychology to join the debate.”
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“Similarly, the reijutsu masters of the 1910s and 1920s often compared hypnosis to traditional religious experiences.”
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“he strongly opposed the view, held by the likes of Hippolyte Bernheim, Auguste Forel and Moll, that hypnosis was normal sleep or part of normal sleep.”
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“By this method, a person could be easily induced into a state of hypnosis that was equivalent to the 'understanding of nothingness' ( mukan ) pursued by Zen practitioners, Kumamoto claimed.”
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In the paper
“Ono thus argued that Zenjō , which was a state of no self, was a hypnotic state, and that the state of 'wisdom' ( e ), in which one attained comprehensive insights, was an effect of suggestion.”
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“Kuwabara maintained that hypnosis was a state of 'no will, no thought, no self, and no mind.'”
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“An anemic brain, he contended, was the physiological basis of both Zen and hypnosis, and corresponded to their psychological characteristics of being exceptionally calm, quiet, and perceptive.”
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“He called on Zen practitioners to replace traditional sitting-Zen with hypnosis, which he called the 'experimental Zen.'”
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“Although they were worried by the prevalence of reijutsu , most scientists, orthodox Buddhist priests, and intellectual elites seldom gave serious thought to reijutsu masters' theories and practices, but often straightforwardly dismissed them as superstition or heresy.”
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In the paper
“As an efficient method of eliminating personality, hypnosis could reunite the mind with the Great Spirit and realize its psychic capacities, including healing, clairvoyance, fortunetelling, and telekinesis, all of which Kuwabara claimed to have confirmed by experiments on himself.”
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“Elaborating on the experience, Fukurai described hypnosis as a state of 'being totally calm, just like a pool of absolutely balanced, quiet and waveless water.'”
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“With hypnosis, he hoped to re-establish the authority of Buddhism by providing it with a firm foundation of scientific, experimental facts.”
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“He advised modern practitioners to choose a preferred saying appropriate for the cultivation of moral virtues, be it from the Bible, the Analects of Confucius, or any other great philosophical work, and meditate upon it, arguing that, with these modern kōans , sitting-Zen was nonetheless an effective method, even for non-believers, to improve morality, intelligence, and willpower.”
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“As far as hypnosis was concerned, Murakami held that hypnosis without suggestion was a state of full passive attention and that hypnosis with suggestion was one of full active attention.”
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“However, he stressed that it was wrong to confuse hypnosis with Zen, for the two, despite some resemblances, were of an absolutely different nature.”
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“Concerning the title, he acknowledged at the outset that, according to Zen doctrine, the state of enlightenment could not, and should not, be taught or explained in words.”
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“They came to concur that hypnosis was an abnormal or pathological mental state complying with mechanical, objective psychological laws, which was absolutely different from the transcendental, subjective Zen.”
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“For them, there was no significant gap between psychology and Buddhism, whose mutual enrichment and validation were, to some extent, deemed natural and necessary.”
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“On the other hand, Sōyen stressed that bonpu Zen was, nonetheless, merely a worldly level of Zen and could not lead to true Zen enlightenment.”
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“It is worth noting that the two respective leading figures in psychology and Buddhism who raised objections to the comparison had a close connection, which is another example of the rich exchanges between the two fields at the time.”
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“It, therefore, was an effective method for training attention.”
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“Borrowing from Guifeng Zongmi (780-841), a Chinese Zen monk of the Tang Dynasty, Sōyen divided Zen into five different levels: gedō (heretical) Zen; bonpu (ordinary-people) Zen; hīnayāna Zen; mahāyāna Zen; and ultimate Zen.”
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“There was therefore little difference between Zen and hypnosis.”
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“He also gave an abstract interpretation of the miraculous powers described in Buddhist texts, understanding them more as metaphors for the enlightenment of the mind than realities, and thereby drew a line between them and psychic phenomena upon which occultists like Kuwabara attempted to build new religions.”
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“Self-hypnosis, in particular, was a more efficient and reliable method of Zen cultivation than sitting-Zen.”
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“Moreover, he argued for the need to reform kōan , contending that those mysterious, unintelligible traditional kōans were too difficult and troublesome for most contemporary Zen practitioners, who, without religious talent or aspiration, only sought in Zen a method for self-cultivation.”
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“Unlike Sōyen, Okada spoke positively of hypnosis, praising it as a body of scholarship developed by psychologists based on meticulous scientific studies.”
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“He stressed that the state of enlightenment, in which thinking and emotions attained their ultimate accomplishment, was intuitively experienced and could not be understood and explained by psychology, philosophy or other sciences.”
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“Sōyen held a mixed view of bonpu Zen, which he explained as practicing religion for worldly ends as well but based on rational beliefs.”
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“Sitting-Zen, he explained, could not only inhibit psychological reflexes and thereby prevent wasting mental energy, but also activate and sustain intentional attention.”
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“It is no wonder that, although Sōyen was opposed to comparing Zen to hypnosis, some hypnotists had quoted him in support of the contrary argument.”
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“Thus, Japanese hypnotists made a series of comparisons between Zen and hypnosis, pointing out the similarities between their nothingness, attentiveness, active imaginations, hallucinations, physiological bases, induction techniques, and therapeutic and cultivation effects, and between hypnotic suggestion and Zen insight.”
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“The state of attention in samadhi, he maintained, was identical to that in hypnosis.”
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“Practicing bonpu Zen, he maintained, was beneficial for mental as well as physical health, and was a remedy for the ills of contemporary brain-centered, overintellectualized, and overspecialized culture.”
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“In his opinion, this was the only level of Zen that might resemble hypnosis in some respects.”
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“In his view, hypnosis, as a regressive and pathological mental state, could not be more different from the transcendental state of Zen, which produced extraordinary mental powers.”
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“Hypnosis essentially consisted of an extraordinary state of intentional attention, he contended.”
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“The mental life in Zen cultivation is full and perfect, consisting of consistent and coherent mental activities. By contrast, that in hypnosis is disconnected and localized, devoid of mental activities other than those related to suggestions and lacking judgment and differentiation abilities.”
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“He posited that the effects of post-hypnotic suggestion could provide an explanation for how the experience of enlightenment brought about persistent and cumulative mental changes.”
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“Under the supervision of Matsumoto Matatarō - a student of William Wundt and the successor to Motora at Tokyo Imperial University - Iritani, a student of psychology at the university, conducted a study on the psychology of Zen through questionnaire and text analysis.”
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“Some of them also drew on Buddhism to understand psychoanalytic experiences and conceived the attainment of psychoanalytic insight as some kind of intuitive experience akin to Buddhist sudden enlightenment.”
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“It became more cautious about psychological interpretations of its thoughts and practices and tried to ensure its roles in modern society by drawing a clear distinction between itself and science.”
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“They all held that hypnosis was merely an abnormal or pathological mental state whose only counterpart in religion was superstition, and that psychology had no access to the core of belief, but could (and should) only study the external appearance of religious experiences.”
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“He contended that although the two were both states of 'no thought and no will,' they were completely different in terms of the 'attitude of mind.'”
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“From his own experience, he concluded that Zen, in the language of psychology, was a mental state in which the mind did away with the manifest consciousness and activity, which were mainly intellectual in nature, and returned to the latent consciousness and activity, which comprised emotions and wills.”
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“Zen practitioners attaining the state of Zenjō were fully conscious and carried on all mental processes.”
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“They shared many views and interests in common, and complemented each other to draw an absolute distinction between religious mystical experiences and normal and pathological mental states.”
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“As for the state of Zenjō , Okada first stressed that it was impossible to experiment with Zenjō on oneself or others in the same manner as with hypnosis, because Zenjō was an esoteric and profound mental state that was very difficult to attain.”
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“Hypnosis was regarded as an ordinary, abnormal, or pathological mental state, which belonged to the domain of abnormal psychology.”
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“However, Zenjō was by no means an 'unconscious' state, Okada contended.”
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“However, much of this openness had disappeared by 1908, when Fukurai explicitly argued that hypnosis and Zen were the same mental states.”
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“Starting from around 1910, Japanese hypnotism developed largely in the direction of occult reijutsu , and most of those who continued to take an interest in hypnosis mainly concerned themselves with the psychic powers of the mind.”
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“Zenjō , Okada contended, was not an 'inorganic,' mechanical state of 'no thought' ( bushiryō ) but a state with 'un-thought' ( hishiryō ), which was selfless, non-egoistic, and beyond prejudice.”
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“Zen, by contrast, was regarded as a mystical state incidentally attained through religious practices, which, as exemplified by Iritani's research, had to be studied from the particular perspective of religious psychology.”
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“By contrast, the mind was totally passive in hypnosis.”
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“Moreover, this period saw the emergence of several indigenous forms of psychotherapy, such as Morita therapy and Naikan therapy, which were as popular and influential as psychoanalysis, if not more so.”
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“Zen enlightenment, he held, was similar to the divine inspiration of Methodist meditation, both of which were the attainment of the unity of latent consciousness.”
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“The debate subsided after 1912 without really being resolved.”
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“They also narrowly defined hypnosis as a mental state devoid of consciousness and volitional control, regarding it as either an ordinary state like sleep or a pathological one like hysteria.”
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“An absolute distinction was drawn between hypnosis and Zen.”
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“He pointed out that in the state of Zen, the mind, although unaffected by outside stimuli for being absolutely focused on the kōan , remained active and, once activated, would work in a coordinated way as it did in normal consciousness.”
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“Even Fukurai had devoted himself to psychic and mystical research and was forced to resign from his post at Tokyo Imperial University for his adamant position on the reality of psychic powers.”
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“Okada thus concluded that although hypnosis and Zenjō were similarly described as a state of 'nothingness,' they differed in terms of the existence or nonexistence of consciousness, volition, and autonomy and were totally incomparable.”
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“Seemingly identical techniques actually produced opposite effects and served opposite purposes in the two practices.”
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“As for Zen, they increasingly considered it beyond the scope of psychological experiment and tended to understand it independently of normal and abnormal psychology.”
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“It was beyond description and explanation, which was why Zen Buddhism had seldom provided an explanation of Zenjō and, even if it did, could only come up with some vague descriptions, such as 'unspeakable' ( gongodōdan ), 'unthinkable' ( iryofudō ), 'manifest' ( arawa ), or 'strike' ( katsu ) for the most profound experiences.”
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“At the same time, those who argued for the similarity between hypnosis and Zen stood their ground, but increasingly pursued the comparison in a mystical direction.”
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“It only acted according to suggestions, with some centers becoming hyperactive while others remaining inactive, which resulted in abnormal mental phenomena such as illusion, hallucination, and somnambulism.”
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“Okada defined hypnosis as 'a mental state of no will and no thought in which all spontaneous mental activities come to a halt.'”
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“Many of them claimed or were thought to have their roots in Buddhism and placed great emphasis on attaining a transcendental state of mind through intuitive introspection.”
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“Fukurai, Ono, and Murakami conceived of, and their clients experienced, a hypnotic state that was different from the Western hypnotic states in many important respects:”
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“Their principal targets of attack, respectively, were those 'heresies' within their own fields, such as Fukurai for psychology, and new religions for organized Buddhism.”
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“These schools of psychology, although previously ignored by historians of psychology, were just as influential, if not more so, as the German experimental psychology.”
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“hypnosis, as a controlled and reproducible altered state of consciousness, was an important experimental tool for exploring the deeper psyche in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century.”
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“Studies on hypnosis and its associated phenomena, such as automatic writing, laid a theoretical and methodological foundation for investigating and understanding various extraordinary mental states and the working of the unconscious mind.”
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“Pierre Janet's experimental psychopathology and Edmund Gurney's and Frederic William Henry Myers's psychical research were among the most remarkable schools of psychology inspired by this approach.”
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“Another important psychologist in this regard was William James, who was influential in contemporary Japan.”
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“Hypnosis became an important - if not the most important - tool for experimental psychology and psychotherapy.”
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“They played pivotal roles in the history of dynamic psychology and psychiatry, and have contributed greatly to the understanding of the unconscious and the conception of psychology as a person-centered science.”
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“James thought highly of Janet's and Myers's works.”
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“academic interest in hypnosis in the West was recently revived first by Jean-Martin Charcot's work and then by the dispute between his Salpêtrière School and the Nancy School.”
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“Among historians, the accepted view is that there were two waves of interest in hypnosis in Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.”
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“His interest and research in various exceptional mental states, including religious and mystical experiences, psychic phenomena, hypnosis, and pathological states such as multiple personality, led him to conceive a psychology that could encompass psychopathology, psychical research, and religious psychology.”
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“Their efforts anticipate, and may have influenced, some of the indigenous forms of psychotherapy that emerged in the following decades.”
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“It is worth pointing out that the Buddhist nothingness was neither a literally unconscious state nor a split consciousness with refined mental activities as described by Janet and other Western scholars of hypnosis.”
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“This, of course, was not unique to Japan, since hypnosis was also a subject of interest for science, philosophy, and religion in the contemporary West,”
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“Therefore, although one was a traditional religious practice and the other a modern science and technique, sitting-Zen and hypnosis overlapped and sometimes competed with each other in many areas at the turn of the century.”
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“Accordingly, hypnosis was sometimes regarded as a lower or even pathological mental state, but at other times as a sublime, transcendental one.”
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“The openness was particularly evident with respect to hypnosis, not only because of its mysterious phenomena but also because it, characterized by the cessation of normal conscious activity, could be suitably described as a state of nothingness, making it easy to link it with the Buddhist mystical experience.”
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“As several scholars have pointed out, the interest in hypnosis stemmed from the social and cultural situation of Japan in the early twentieth century.”
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“We can find similarities between the nothingness of hypnosis described by Inoue and that of Zen. Both were seen as the true nature of the mind attained by eliminating distracting thoughts.”
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“The similarity (or difference) between the hypnotic and Buddhist nothingness also became the focal point in the forthcoming debate over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen.”
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“As regards Inoue, as a Buddhist philosopher and reformer, his interest in hypnosis could be understood within the broad context of his efforts to revitalize the Buddhist self in the modern era.”
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“Hence, the 'nothingness' of hypnosis was understood sometimes in a descriptive and mechanical sense but at other times in the Buddhist sense.”
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“The large number of publications and their heterogeneous views reflected the intense interest in, and diverse understandings of, hypnosis in Japan in the early twentieth century.”
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“They tried not only to explain transcendental nothingness by mechanical nothingness, but also to endow the latter with transcendental significance.”
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“Kuwabara provided a basic framework for the reijutsu which would soon emerge.”
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“Among them was Ono Fukuhei, a well-known hypnotist who claimed to be the first fulltime hypnotherapist in Japan.”
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“On the other hand, the nothingness of hypnosis was endowed with religious and spiritual significance.”
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“They explained the state of Zen by hypnosis, and vice versa.”
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“On the one hand, the nothingness of Zen was no longer purely subjective and intuitive but could be understood and explained by psychological laws, and could be reliably achieved by specific techniques.”
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“Fukurai was the first native-trained psychologist in Japan, having obtained his doctoral degree at Tokyo Imperial University in 1906.”
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“The comparison of hypnosis to Zen led to, and was strengthened by, this technical transformation.”
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“A prominent figure among the few psychologists at the time, Fukurai was best-known, particularly outside the academic world, for his expertise in hypnosis, the topic of his doctoral research.”
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“Fukurai's doctoral thesis was published in 1906, and was widely read and frequently quoted by contemporary authors on hypnosis.”
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“Murakami was a scholar in agricultural ethics and had worked at the prestigious Tokyo Imperial University and Tokyo Agricultural College.”
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“The claim had significant implications for both Zen and hypnosis.”
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“However, some of them had held different views at earlier times, or in different contexts, which testified to how fluid the boundary had been and still was.”
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“Sōyen appeared to be himself ignorant of the largely rational forms of hypnosis proposed by Fukurai and others, which, in fact, were more akin to bonpu Zen.”
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“However, Sōyen wished to defend Buddhism against new religions founded on mystical hypnosis, as well as maintain the uniqueness of Zen practice.”
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“A closer look at Sōyen's speech reveals that he, in effect, differentiated between three kinds of Zen, superstitious, secularized, and truly religious, with the first being the principal object of his criticism.”
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“Their enthusiasm about making this comparison might have been motivated, in part, by their desire to promote hypnosis.”
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“For psychology, it had to address the difficult questions concerning the extraordinary nature of meditative introspection and intuitive experiences, which, unlike hypnosis, could not be easily reduced to pathological states.”
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“Comparing hypnosis to Zen could lift the status of hypnosis or, at least, make it less dubious.”
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“However, as manifested by his positive view of bonpu Zen, Sōyen also felt the need for secularization, considering it an important task for beleaguered Buddhism in the modern era.”
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“He thus narrowly defined hypnosis as a totally passive and dependent state of mind, thereby drawing an absolute distinction between it and Zen.”
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“It was in this context that he adopted the narrow view of hypnosis as a completely passive and dependent sleep-like mental state, which was instrumental in his rebuttal of those self-styled scientific religions.”
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“As for Buddhism, it was threatened by competition from a variety of new religions claiming to be founded on science and psychology.”
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“They differ from psychoanalysis in that while psychoanalysis places emphasis on objective observation and verbalization of inner experience and explores the mind through discursive analysis, they dismiss the importance of words and provide a way to directly experience and confirm the fundamental state of mind through intuitive introspection.”
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“They shared a common epistemological and methodological framework for understanding mental life, and mutually shaped and reinforced each other's stance.”
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“These psychotherapies share many common features with the Zen-hypnosis discussed in this article.”
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“After all, hypnosis occupied a significant place in the history of dynamic psychiatry for being constructed as a controlled altered state of consciousness that provided a gateway into the unconscious world.”
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“Therefore, starting from the Zen-hypnosis, we may write a Japanese history of dynamic psychiatry and psychology that is rather different from the Western ones.”
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“It could be developed into a variety of exceptional mental states, among which the talkative state of free association was just one possibility.”
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“The versatility and plasticity of hypnosis may have caused it to be disqualified by psychology as a legitimate object of scientific study.”
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“However, as shown by the popularity of the Zen-hypnosis, reijutsu , and other indigenous forms of psychotherapy, this framework was far from being strongly dominant and secure, but needed to be continually defended, maintained, and adjusted.”
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“They, nonetheless, provide significant and valuable information on the deep psyche and its relations with the outside world.”
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“we may say that it was natural that hypnosis was experienced in this way in Japan, where Buddhist concepts, such as nothingness and samadhi, had become part of everyday language and integral to people's self-understanding.”
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“There were also other factors that might have contributed to the construction of this psychological state: the anxiety about modernity and cultural nationalism, to name the most obvious.”
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Buddhist concepts such as nothingness and samadhi had become part of everyday language and integral to people's self-understanding in Japan.
“where Buddhist concepts, such as nothingness and samadhi, had become part of everyday language and integral to people's self-understanding.”
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§ Shaku S ō yen's refutation · p. 19
“In 1895, for his psychological study of Zen, Motora went to Engakuji to practice sitting-Zen under the instruction of Sōyen.”
§ Empirical hypnosis versus transcendental Zen · p. 23
“As mentioned above, Motora once practiced Zen in 1894.”
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§ 'New' body techniques of hypnosis · p. 16
“For example, Kumashiro Hikotarō, another wellknown hypnotist of the time, posited that taking proper postures and doing deep abdominal breathing”
§ 'New' body techniques of hypnosis · p. 16
“Kumamoto accordingly invented a new induction method to replace the then-standard eye-fixation.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wu, Y.-C.
- Affiliations
- Academia Sinica (TW)
- Corresponding author
- Wu, Yu-chuan
- Venue
- History of Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-12-08
- Volume
- 56
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 470-496
- ISSN
- 0073-2753 (ISSN-L)
- 1753-8564
- OpenAlex
- W2773914621
- Cited by
- 7
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 2.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- History of Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (104-2410-H-001-001-MY2)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Keywords
- hypnosis, Zen Buddhism, nothingness, history of psychology, early 20th century Japan, intuitive experience, psychotherapy, experimental psychology
- MeSH terms
- Buddhism, Humans, Hypnosis, Japan, Psychology, Religion and Psychology, Meditation, Dissent and Disputes, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century
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