Tao Te Ching Chapter 56-10 Staying away?

Today's Tao

You cannot stay away from it. (Ch.56)


So, you cannot stay away from Tao because you are Tao.


Zen Master Dogen says in his «Shobogenzo»:

うをとり、いまだむかしよりみづそらをはなれず。

[Uwo tori, imada mukashi yori midu sora wo hanarezu]

"Fish/birds have never, since the olden days, left water/the sky.

Your own self cannot leave the hologram as fish/birds cannot leave water/the sky".

(Genjokoan 現成公案, «Shobogenzo»)


The reverse side of the truth is the same.

True you are Tao, so, of course you cannot leave Tao.


The master cautions:

"If fish try to completely understand water first, or if birds try to completely understand the sky before they fly, they cannot get the way neither in water nor in the sky."


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 56


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