Today's Tao
The body decomposes, but Tao has no danger. (Ch.16)
Do you like black and white Japanese film classics like Rashomon, Seven Samurai, and Tokyo story?
Akira Kurosawa and Yasujiro Ozu; they are true master film makers, aren't they?
By any chance, do you know another classic film called «Ugetsu Monogatari» by Kenji Mizoguchi?
The original was written in the Samurai era. It is a collection of short stories.
In it, there is a beautiful story of love.
An old Buddhist priest adored a boy-monk. The boy-monk got sick and met his end.
The old priest could not bear the site that the body of his beloved was decomposing.
So, he ate it.
Now, his beloved is eternally safe in the stomach.
It is a story called «Aozukin (Blue hood)» in «Ugetsu Monogatari (Tales of Moonlight and Rain)» by Ueda Akinari.
Some people search an eternal life.
Would you like to live eternally?
In fact, you do.
Your hologram "decomposes", but true You are Tao.
Tao simply keeps on creating holograms.
Dogen's caution:
We must not think that our individual spirit goes somewhere after life.
There is no such thing as the sea of eternity.
(Soku shin ze butsu 即心是仏, «Shobogenzo»)
Naoto Matsumoto says:
It is easier if we think our individual self does not exist.
A so-called "self" is part of the rest of the world.
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-Guard stillness 16-2
-Material beings 16-3
-Go back 16-4
-Root 16-5
-Stillness 16-6
-Destiny 16-7
-Constancy 16-8
-Satori 16-9
-Calamity 16-10
-Know constancy 16-11
-Public 16-12
-King 16-13
-King = Heaven 16-14
-Heaven = Tao 16-15
-Eternal 16-16
-The body decomposes 16-17
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 16
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-It is a great pleasure to talk about our national heritage. The original tales are one of the best literary works in Japanese along with «The Tale of Genji». Although its story is not truly related to the original, the film might be called a cinematographic masterpiece.
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