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Lots of [[Hot-Blooded]] heroes like to power up by doing something violent. Whether it's [[Punctuated Emphasis]] while yelling their [[In the Name of Thethe Moon]] speech, tearing off a [[Power Limiter]], shouting as they charge up a [[Ki Attacks]], flexing as they invoke the [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]], or even bleeding. Not [[The Stoic|this guy though]]; he expresses his enhanced combat ability by entering the [[Useful Notes/Buddhism|Lotus Position.]]
 
Rather than express violence with violence, he pauses mid battle (or pre-battle) and meditates. It doesn't have to be a twenty minute session, usually all he needs is five seconds, closed eyes, even breathing, mentioning a [[Survival Mantra]] or [[Koan]] to enter a state of near perfect calm (or murderous [[Tranquil Fury]]), and then [[Let's Get Dangerous|the bad people fall down.]]
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== Film ==
* Bagger in ''[[The Legend of Bagger Vance (Film)|The Legend of Bagger Vance]]'' is able to induce one of these in Junuh (making every spectator seemingly disappear) by talking about the beauty of golf and onness with nature over a [[Whoopi Epiphany Speech]].
* In ''[[Star Wars]] [[The Phantom Menace (Film)|The Phantom Menace]]'' Qui-Gon Jinn took this route during a break in the fight against Darth Maul on Naboo. When those energy-shields-whose-purpose-is-never-clearly-defined come up, Maul paces and glares, Obi-Wan looks anxious, but Qui-Gon drops to his knees and closes his eyes. When the shields go down, he's back on his feet in a second. {{spoiler|It helped, but wasn't enough.}}
 
 
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* In [[Bad Machinery|John Allison]]'s ''[[Scary Go Round]]'' side-strip ''Giant Days'', Esther's new friend Daisy [http://scarygoround.com/gd/index.php?date=20101110 flops down into Lotus position (sort of) during a fight] and then [http://scarygoround.com/gd/index.php?date=20101111 unleashes the awesome power of Yogic Flying]. [[George Harrison]] does not approve.
 
* In ''[[Laser Feet (Webcomic)|Laser Feet]]'''s [http://www.thelaserfeet.com/comic/005/ 5th] comic, one man meditates in order to gain the power to fly using his eyebrows.