Tao Te Ching Chapter 40-2 Samurai in doubt

Today's Tao

When a middle man hears about Tao, he is half in doubt. (Ch.40)


In the old days, an ordinary person would be half in doubt when he heard of airplanes.

An ordinary person would be half in doubt when he heard of Internet.

An ordinary person would be half in doubt when he heard of Sony's flexible TV screen.

An ordinary person would be half in doubt when he heard of Karl Pribram's Holonomic brain theory.

An ordinary person will be half in doubt when he hears of Tao.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 40


Tao answers your question!



-Of course, even a samurai had doubt once in while. Especially after his function changed from a warrior to a bureaucrat, he had doubt about what he was living for. He needed a book like «Hagakure». It is quite different from Musashi's «The Book of Five Rings».