Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-10 See the family

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See the family through the family. (Ch.54)


See Tao through your family.

Family members are a manifestation of Tao.

Then, why do Zen monks have to abandon their family?

That's why they are called Shukke 出家, "leaving the family", isn't it?

This question can be answered by another question.

Have they ever had a family?

No.

Because you do not possess your holograms, which include your family.

Leaving the family is one way to learn that the whole world is a hologram.

Of course, you can choose another way of learning it while listening to all the gibberish of your family members.

You never know, an enlightened layman in eighth-century China, Hokoji 龐居士 / P'ang Yun 龐蘊, may have gone through the same thing.


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