Tao Te Ching Chapter 7-6 Self

Today's Tao

Because he is without self, he can accomplish his self. (Ch.7)


The best way to find out what is your true self is to be without self.

A typically Lao Tzu-like contradiction, isn't it?

First, your own self belongs to the so-called "reality", which is a hologram and catalyst.

If you acknowledge it, you can discover your true self, which is Tao.

At this point, the word "self" is synonymous to the word "all".


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 7-5 Out of your body

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That's why the sage puts out his body, but it exists. (Ch.7)


First of all, I want to make it clear that we are not confined in our body.

The problem is that we THINK our mind is captured in it.

Our body is part of our hologram. So is our mind.

The moment you admit this, you will remember you are one with Tao.

That is to say, you are out of your hologram.

And the hologram still exists as a catalyst to stimulate you.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 7-4 Last = First

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That's why the sage puts his body last, but it comes first. (Ch.7)


"Where there is a will, there is a way."

Are you sure of that?

Lao Tzu might say, "Where there is a will, there is resistance".

Resistance blocks the natural flow of the fundamental energy Tao.

Last is first. First is last.

This is the Reverse Thinking, and it is how Dark Depth Female works.

If you want to do something, do something else for others.

Strangely, you will get what you want probably sooner than you have expected.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 16-13 King

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The public is a king. (Ch.16)


"The public" means the state without self.

"A king" signifies the creator of the hologram.

Without your own self, you are the creator of the hologram.

Well, that's not precise.

Whether you are aware of your own self or not, your own self does not belong to you.

So, you are constantly creating the world whether you think you are stuck in your own self or not.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 7-3 Live long

Today's Tao

Therefore, they can live long. (Ch.7)


Heaven and earth do not give birth to each other, and can live long.

Birth and death in the world is just a concept in our mind.

So everything lives eternally.

But what is "eternity"? Tao doesn't have time, does it?

Time is just a concept in our mind, isn't it?

Then, what is "our mind"?

Your mind is not true You. It is part of your hologram.

Don't worry, and stop asking yourself "Who am I?".

You are Tao and eternal.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 7-2 Heaven creates no earth

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The reason why heaven and earth are long and eternal is that they do not give birth to themselves. (Ch.7)


Time and space are created in our "mind".

The world we see in front of us is projected in our "mind".

The world itself doesn't create anything no matter how contrary it looks.

So, you don't have to worry about anything.

No disasters. No miseries. Unless «you» want to project them on your mind screen.


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Heaven and earth video

Today's Tao

Heaven is long. Earth is eternal. [Ch.7]


See Heven and earth 7-1 to read the text.

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Tao Te Ching Chapter 6-5 No drain

Today's Tao

However much you use it, you will never drain it. (Ch.6)


No matter how much Tao you use, you will never drain it. There is no limit in Tao.

Then, why do we create "limit" like Yin and Yang, female and male?

Because it is the prayer teaching us the meaninglessness of dichotomy.

The prayer is not just something written.

The world, your hologram, is a prayer, a living prayer wheel.

We turn the prayer wheel of male and female. It never stops turning.

That's all. That's enough.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 16-12 Public

Today's Tao

Acceptance is the public. (Ch.16)


Here, the word "the public" suggests "without self".

If you accept all, your own self disappears.

Then, you will see that individuality is an illusion.

If you are sure of this, you are one step closer to admit that your own self is part of your hologram.


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With no limit, it always stays here. [Ch.6]


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Today's Tao

The gate of Dark Depth Female is called the root of heaven and earth. [Ch.6]


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Today's Tao

This is called Dark Depth Female. [Ch.6]


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Valley God exists any time any where. [Ch. 6]


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-7 Stay empty

Today's Tao

The best way is to stay empty. (Ch.5)


To stay empty isn't to think nothing.

Can you really think nothing?

In Zen Buddhism, it is called "Bumo misho izen".

Literally, it means "before Father and Mother are born".

It is the state before things are created, or your hologram is projected (in the "brain").

It is Tao.

So, to stay empty means to stay with Tao.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-6 More words, more exhausted

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The more words you use, the more exhausted you get. (Ch.5)


The more words you use, the more analytical you are.

Analysing the world is a sort of refusing it.

The more you analyse, the more conscious you are of your own self.

Then, you are stuck in the world, which is your hologram.

When you analyse and get exhausted, you are simply wasting your fundamental energy Tao.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-5 Give more, receive more

Today's Tao

The more it moves, the more comes out. (Ch.5)


"The world is your hologram. It exists as a catalyst."

When I say this, please don't take those words as a pejorative.

The hologram is as important as what we call the reality.

It moves our emotion.

We get agitated in a sublime way.

Then, we emit the fundamental energy Tao.

Consequently, the more energy you give to your hologram, the more energy you receive through it.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-4 Never exhausted

Today's Tao

It's empty, but will never be exhausted. (Ch.5)


By any chance, do you know Chuang Tzu's famous saying "the frog in the well"?

People normally use it to say that the person is as ignorant and narrow-minded as "the frog in the well", who doesn't know anything about outside his own small world.

But who is ignorant, really?

Isn't Chuang Tzu talking about holography there?

It is a fantastic metaphor of a holographic movie if you interpret the wall of the well as a three-dimensional Cinerama screen around you, the frog.

Surely, the hologram you are seeing is empty, but your movie will never be exhausted.


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Is a bellows a hologram? video

Today's Tao

Between heaven and earth, isn't it like a bellows? [Ch.5]


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True wisdom video

Today's Tao

The sage has no mercy.

He treats everyone as straw dogs. [Ch.5]


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No mercy video

Today's Tao

Heaven and earth have no mercy.

They treat everything as straw dogs. [Ch. 5]


This is one the best known sentences in Tao Te Ching, thanks to Dustin Hoffman and the moveie "Straw Dogs".

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Tao Te Ching Chapter 4-5 Creator of Creator

Today's Tao

But it seems that it had created the one who created everything. (Ch.4)


Let's stop bla bla bla and go straight to the point.

Who in the world is the creator of the creator.

The answer is both you and Tao.

You create Tao, and Tao creates you.

This constant exchange of the energy is the essence of all.

Then, you realise that you are Tao. You can see the cycle is the famous Yin Yang circle.

Zen masters go a step further and abandon dichotomy completely.

They just draw a circle.

The world and your own "self"?

They are part of the hologram.

It is a catalyst to stimulate this cycle.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 4-4 Creator

Today's Tao

I don't know who created it. (Ch.4)


Lao Tzu doesn't want to tell who creates Tao.

It is you who create Tao, he knows that.

But, who are you then?

You project your hologram, and your own self is part of it. Others project you in your own hologram.

Remember there is no time and space in Tao.

Everything happens simultaneously. It doesn't matter who comes first.

The most important thing is that true You are Tao itself.

The rest exists as a catalyst to stimulate true You.

So-called "your own «self»" is not true You.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 16-11 Know constancy?

Today's Tao

If you know constancy, you can accept it. (Ch.16)


Tao is eternal and exists everywhere in your hologram, which is the world in front of you.

Tao is constant.

If you know it, it is not difficult to accept all what happens around you.

Accepting all is the very first step to transform your hologram.

If you want to transform your world, just accept it first.


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-"Dodeska den, dodeska, den." The mentally retarded boy thinks he is a conductor of a streetcar. "Dodesuka den, dodesuka den." This is the noises the invisible streetcar makes with its rails. Since the streetcar is imaginary, the boy's voice has to do the work. "Dodesuka den, dodesuka den." Even "Emperor" Kurosawa had a hard time. The film was made under financial difficulty.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 4-3 Filled emptiness

Today's Tao

Filled, it looks as if it existed. (Ch.4)


Today, we have the famous, and sometimes notorious oriental maxim, "Everything is nothing, and nothing is everything".

Although things fill some space, they do not really exist.

In other words, although things seem to exist and occupy their space, they are empty.

One can understand this according to quantum physics, but I prefer a theory of neurosurgeon Karl Pribram.

He believes that we reconstruct the world in our brains as a holographic image.

This is one step closer to Taoism.


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Origin video

Today's Tao

Profound, it looks like the origin of everything. [Ch.4]


See Origin 4-2 to read the text.

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Field video

Today's Tao

Tao functions through nothingness and is not tangible. [Ch.4]


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 3-7 Act without acting

Today's Tao

Act without acting, and you will control all. (Ch.3)


Here comes the one of the toughest pieces in Tao Te Ching, or Oriental philosophies in general.

"Act without acting." "Think without thinking." "Say without saying."

What do they want to say, really?

Let's make the answer as simple as possible.

"Act without acting." means "recycle the fundamental energy Tao".

You receive the energy through the world, which is your hologram.

You emit it back, creating a cycle of the energy Tao.

By doing so, you transform your hologram.

Without acting, you act on your world.

This is called Dark Depth Female.


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