Today's Tao
Less therefore attained. (Ch.22)
With "less", you can attain Dark Depth. (The attainment of Dark Depth is called 玄得 [gen toku])
"Thank God! I am alive."
It is not a bad attitude, but, if we want to attain Dark Depth, we will do it differently.
Instead of "Thank God! I am alive", why don't we say:
"I live to thank everyone and everything".
This is what Master Shinran 親鸞 asked us to do some eight hundred years ago.
Shinran (1173-1263) is not a Zen Buddhist. (☞See also Akunin shoki setsu / Feel safe 62-3)
He is the founder of Jodo Shinshu Buddhism in Japan. (And he is a contemporary of Zen Master Dogen.)
Instead of wishing to gain something, he asked the believers to cite prayers as a form of thanking Buddha.
It is a very intelligent way to reduce the resistance of your ego.
That's how we stop disturbing our hologram to transform itself.
Dark Depth will be attained.
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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 22
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