Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-14 Why telepathy?

Today's Tao

Why do I know what's going on in the world under the sky? (Ch.54)


A: "Master Bonbon, I wanna be able to read other people's mind. I wanna be a psychic who can tell what's gonna happen in the world. Can you help me?"

B: "Meditate for thirty years, and you will get the magical power."


Two important points.


One.

You know everything in the world because it's your hologram.

You filter all the information and select what is necessary for you.


Two.

Zen master Dogen strictly advises against any so-called "magical powers" including mind-reading and telepathy.

Well, everyone has got the power.

So, why do we have to call it "magical"?


"Other people" and "another place in the world" are part of the hologram you project.

Naturally, you know all about them.


Dogen says:

"If you are reading your own mind, you are reading other people's mind."

おのれづから心づからの他心通ならん。

(Tashintsu 他心通, «Shobogenzo»)


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☞«Buddha of Infinite Light» is an approximative English translation of Amida Butsu (Amitābha). He is the pilar of Pure Land Buddhism. It is interesting to find out that Daisetz Suzuki wrote «Buddha of Infinite Light», but it is not surprising. After all, Self-power and Other-power have to be the same. Kitaro Nishida was a friend of Suzuki since their high school days. He tackles the integration of terms in Christianity and Buddhism in his «An inquiry into the Good». Names vary, but they point at the same thing.