Tao Te Ching Chapter 64-11 Stick & Lose

Today's Tao

If you stick to it, you will lose it. (Ch.64)


Like yesterday's sentence, you can find the identical one in Chapter 29. (☞See If you stick to it 29-4)

When you stick to something, you are refusing change.

When you block the change, you lose Tao's energy.

Obsession is the shortcut to loss.

Especially the obsession to the concept of Self.


Zen Master Dogen kindly cautions:

"Those who are lost in Mayoi stick to (Self);

those who get Satori leave (Self)."

迷う者は之に執し、悟る者は之を離れる。

(«Gakudo yojin shu 学道用心集»)

（鎌田茂雄「正法眼蔵随聞記講話」第十一講より）


"Oh, my god. I've got my own self. I cannot leave it. My god. What can I do?"

Please do not panic.

Being lost in Mayoi is part of Satori.

Satori is another name of the hologram.

If you cannot help sticking to something, well, leave your feelings alone although it is not ideal,

and don't worry.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64


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☞Morihei Ueshiba (1883 - 1969) was a Japanese martial artist. An Aikido master. Takeda Sokaku was his teacher. Later he worked with a Japanese religious leader, Onisaburo Deguchi, to found a utopian colony in Mongolia. ☞Shinran (1173 -1263) is the founder of Jodo Shin shu / Pure Land Shin school. Zen Master Dogen lived in Kyoto while Shinran was there although there is no record that proves the two ran across each other. Shinran's master was Honen. Yuien, one of Shinran's disciples, is supposed to be the author of «Tannisho».