Tao Te Ching Chapter 41-3 Born from you

Today's Tao

Everything under the sky is born from you. (Ch.41)


What are things?

What is existence?

It is your own self.


Zen master Dogen says:

"You extend yourself and make you the world."

われを排列しおきて尽界とせり [ware o hairetsu shiokite jinkai to seri]

(Uji 有時 , «Shobogenzo»)


The master says clearly:

Time = Things = Self.


Your own self is the mother of the world.

For it projects the hologram of the world, including your own self.

Why including your own self?

Because the world IS your own self.

It is the projector and projected at the same time.

That's why there is no difference between your own self and the rest of the world.

That's why I ask you not to judge.

This is another Kanreisu (a bar / spring) of Zen and Tao.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 41


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