Tao Te Ching Chapter 64-12 Defeat nothing

Today's Tao

Hence, the sage does nothing, so he defeats nothing. (Ch.64)


Doing nothing is the most powerful act of all.

"What? You cannot change anything by doing nothing!", you might respond.

Then, I want to ask you:

"Can you really do something to the world?".

Let's check some important points.


1) The world is part of a hologram.

2)Your own self that tries to change the world is part of a hologram, too.

3)Though you project your hologram, your own self does not control it.

That's why Zen Buddhists call it "Inmo butsu 恁麼物 / a what-on-earth thing". (☞See Inmo and No mind 49-10)


In conclusion, you cannot do anything to the world.

You are the sage.

You know you are not doing anything no matter what you seem to be doing.

Therefore, you will not "defeat" and break the natural flow of Tao.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64


Tao answers your question!



☞Did he really touch the sound of silence? He was 23 years old when Paul Simon wrote «The Sound of Silence» in 1964. As one gets older, the sound of silence seems to change into that of something else. In the case of Yasunari Kawabata, he heard «The Sound of the Mountain». He was 55 years old when he finished writing the novel in 1954.