Naruto, True Tensei

Post Author: Tensetsu.

Hello everybody.

While reading comments and posts I often encounter an exposed view of Naruto as a dumb and stupid ninja. I always innately protest in these moments against that view, but only now, I guess, I reached my critical “melting” point and decided to do something with it, in desire to show you a broader view on Naruto, geniusness and intelligence. (Though, it’s so troublesome… 🙂

I hope, after reading it, you would see it from a different angle of view and recognize Naruto as a true tensei, genius, that was not even nearly come close to being par with, neither by any living person in Naruverse nor by anyone of the generations that were (except, maybe, for sage of six paths, Rokudou Sennin).

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First of all, many of us confuse two terms – geniusness and intelligence, as, it seems, Kishi also does. Intelligence is a property of mind that measures our capability to learn, comprehend, reason and solve. Basically, the more intelligent we are the faster we get an idea and learn something new. Geniusness is property of mind that allows to see something or everything in a completely different way, ability to create absolutely new knowledge that can’t be derived from any other existing knowledge. In short, genius views the world out of scope and applies his insight in a new and, what’s more important, unexpected way.

The difference between the two is that intelligence is an ability to learn existing knowledge, following some procedures existing beforehand, while geniusness is to see new and unexpected possibilities, to have a broad, out-of-scope view on things.

For example, ability to use hand seals to perform a bunshin no jutsu is an intelligence. Sasuke and Sakura clearly are more intelligent than, not only Naruto, but anyone else in their generation, because each of them managed to create 5 clones during genin exams, while Naruto only managed to create 1 clone, while the standard performance was 3 clones.

Also, intelligent and genius persons differ in the way they learn something new. Intelligent person needs guidance (not only in the form of teacher guidance, but also in the form of guidebook), needs a procedure and rules to learn. For example, when teaching team 7 to climb a tree, Kakashi clearly described step-by-step procedure required to accomplish that task. Kakashi told them to gather chakra at the bottom of the legs and bring out precise amount of chakra to a proper place to stick to the tree.

Geniuses use intelligence, though they also learn through insight. They somehow manage to learn an A (Jounin) level kage bunshin no jutsu during just one evening, although they usually can’t explain how they did it. In the case of a genius, it just happens – a strike, an insight and … voila, i can make kage bunshin.

It would take genius a week to master an S rank Rasengan jutsu, which took Yondaime, a brilliant ninja of his time, several years to create and master.

Also, probably most importantly, intelligent people use just intellect in nearly all cases, while geniuses use everything that could inspire them, emotions, feelings, outside observations, intellect, night visions etc. According to some teachings, emotions are a condensed knowledge expressed in a moment of time. For example, when you feel love, you can bring a 1000-item-long list of qualities of the beloved person, but in a condensed way this HUGE list is expressed in a feeling of love.

If you look the way Sasuke learns things, then you’ll see, that he’s absolutely serious and calm at all the times, he’s just a pure user of intelligence. Naruto, on the other hand, always use emotions.

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I expect that some of you would start arguing here, bringing the facts that Sasuke also learned some very cool and high level jutsus in a very short time. Again, I strongly believe that Sasuke is, merely, an intelligent person. In fact, he is very smart and a super fast learner, but still, it doesn’t make him a genius. Here, I will bring force real world examples of 2 well known geniuses, who totally follow Naruto’s scheme of personality and actions, but not Sasuke’s.

First is Albert Einstein. As a child, Einstein was full of questions. He wondered why the sky was blue, why a compass always pointed north, what would happen if he could travel at the speed of light. He disliked school and formal education. He performed poorly in school in terms of grades. He failed an entrance exam into the Swiss Federal Polytechinal School in Zurich and was forced to attend a technical school. Some of his teachers advised him to follow humanitarian sciences path, like jurisdiction, instead of technical ones.

He was an unpredictable eccentric. Despite what people said about him or how they perceived him, he still managed to shake the foundation of physics, when he invented relativity theory.

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.” – Thomas Alva Edison.

Second is Thomas Edison. He was not particularly bright, intelligence-wise. Still, he is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1093 US patents in his name. Without Edison we wouldn’t have light bulbs, electric-power generators, mass communication, telecommunications. It is said, that he made over a thousand tries to create a light bulb. Time went without any success, nearly everyone and even some of his followers said that it’s impossible, that he’s nuts and out of his mind, that he’ll never be able to do it. Despite all that was said about him and his dream, he managed to do it and now we enjoy the light emitted by light bulb during the night.

So, does these two examples sound like “number one persistent, knucklehead, unpredictable ninja that dreams to be Hokage, despite what all the others say or believe.” ?

Clearly, YES! Dattebayo!!! 🙂

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Naruto as a true genius in his 12 years managed to change the lives and turn to a brighter side 2 “so-called” tensei ninjas, Huuga Neji and Gaara.

He told Neji these phrases:

– “Thinking that destiny is all decided is a huge mistake”

– “You’re the same! The branch family supposed to protect the main family, yet doing that to Hinata…In truth, you are trying your hardest to disobey destiny…”

– “Destiny can’t be changed, blah-blah. Stop whining about stupid crap like that. Since… You’re not a loser like me…”

These were said when fighting with Gaara:

– “Because he was like me…Because he lived feeling the same kind of loneliness and sadness I did…I thought he was strong because he survived that solitude, fighting only for himself…But I was wrong… His strength isn’t real… Strength doesn’t come from fighting alone… Real strength is not what you have when fighting for only yourself… When you have something special that you want to protect… Only then you can become truly strong!”

Now, putting your hand on your heart, with all your sincerity, can you tell that you can do something like that, ok, not in your 12 years, but at least in your current age?

Can you?..

Here is the reaction on Naruto’s real nature from another so-called tensei, Sasuke:

Hmm… Did you understand that mumbling?… Neither did I 🙂

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Some of you are confused, when you see that Naruto can’t get some idea. After showing you that he used his potential many times and proved that he can learn any level jutsu in a blink of an eye, I can explain the facts, whereby he behaves himself as a lazy and dumb ninja, by only one word – social and family behavioral impact when he was a child.

First, We humans perceive our role models majorly from our parents and close friends. Naruto didn’t have parents and was completely alone from the start. He didn’t have any role model to follow, especially such an awesome one as of Minato Namikaze’s, he didn’t have any guidance and support.

Iruka also lost his parents when he was a child. This event deeply influenced his behavioral role model, he started making fun of himself in order to receive some attention.

Naruto became a prankster because of that same reason. His laziness in learning is just a mask. When he encounters difficult, life threatening situation, his mask fells off and he starts showing his true nature – cunning, smart and unpredictable genius.

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This so-called sage mode technique, that Naruto was taught to, while being with the toads in Myobokuzan, is a pure meditation and awakening technique, that was founded in Asia and particularly in India.

If you look at the picture, you can see lots of stone toad statues of men failed to reach “sage” mode and, consequently, turned into stone. One thing that clearly proves that, this is just a meditation technique, is that majority of the toads are sitting in padmasana pose or the lotos pose, a very ancient yoga meditation pose, which was used by Gautama Buddha.

According to the legends Buddha was sitting in that pose for several years meditating under the Bodhi tree and, eventually, he reached the level of consciousness, the state of mind, from what this “sage” mode clearly takes its origin. Especially, bearing in mind the fact, that Japan has two major religions, first is Sinto and the second one, which you probably guessed, is Buddhism.

This level of consciousness, the “awakened” state, can be described by these feats:

– person becomes connected to Universum, its energy and information.

– person can perform all sorts of miracles, although, usually, he dislikes using them as a method to reach the minds of those who “sleep”, in other words, those not conscious enough.

– he may not sleep at all, if he wishes.

– he becomes absolutely invincible to “sleeping” people trying to hurt him.

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Now, let me tell more about the last one.

In the beginning of the XX century in Japan, there was a man called Morihei Uesiba that followed the path of a warrior and a Bushido code. After years of training from different masters of various martial art styles he was still dissatisfied and came back to his home. He continued to train himself and meditate, then one day it happened to him, and he also reached the awakened state and got an understanding of the real goal and spirit of any martial art.

According to his insight, the true meaning of any martial art was not in defeating the opponent, but in convincing him of your truth, then, consequently, he will start following you willingly.

He created a new martial art based on his spiritual insight, which he called Aikido – “the way of unifying (with) life energy” or “the way of harmonious spirit”.

Below are some of the principles of this art:

– blending with the motion of the attacker rather than opposing it

– dominating the assailant

– using his energy

– use of internal strength – Ki energy

– protecting the attacker from the injury

He became an absolute genius in martial arts and performed various miraculous feats. One of them is that while being a small, old-looking person, he had a tenacious power …standing rooted at the edge of a tatami with a mass of soldiers trying to push him off, unable to budge him in the least (as described by Shirata Rinjiro).

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Throughout the whole human history only a very small number of people achieved this awakened state. They were people who changed the fate and faith of humanity to the better, who showed the truth and the way. You all know them, Buddha, Jesus, Lao-tsi, Confucius etc. According to the records of most ancient Eastern teachings, many, if not millions, tried to do the same. Reaching the awakened state clearly shows that you are not only a true Tensei, but also that you are born with innate ability and desire to do it.

Naruto clearly outperforms all major characters just by the fact that he reached this “sage” mode. Also, according to the frogs, he did it better than Jiraya or even Minato.

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In conclusion, I would like to repeat, that I strongly believe that Naruto is a true tensei, who wasn’t nearly matched by anyone living or those that passed.

I hope you will agree now 🙂

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Now comes the funnies…

In the beginning, before the galaxies appeared…

before the bang come spreading…

when all the matter was condensed in point…

was said a phrase:

Enjoy. 🙂