Thursday, August 11, 2011

Tao Te Ching Chapter 81-4 Accumulate not


Today's Tao

The sage doesn't accumulate. (Ch.81)


In Chapter 48, Lao Tzu says:

"When you study, you accumulate your knowledge everyday.

When you do Tao, you reduce everything every day." (☞See Reduce 48-1)

There are two important ways to look at reducing.


First, reduce your resistance. (☞See Tao Te Ching / Chapter 78 / Resistance)

Our raison d'être is to maximize the circulation of Tao's energy.

Accept everything as it is.

Be like water. (☞See Tao Te Ching / Chapter 8 / Be like water)

Use Dark Depth Female, 玄牝 [gen pi].


Second, reducing is increasing.

This is what Yin Yang circle is telling you.

In Chapter 36, Lao Tzu shows us some examples.

Stretch = Shrink

Weak = Strong

Decline = Prosperity

Give = Take

Why don't you use Reverse Thinking?

This is a good way to activate Dark Depth Female.

How?

The easiest example may be:

"Instead of thanking Tao for letting you live, live to thank Tao".


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«Recommended Books 14» Laday Murasaki (Murasaki Shikibu)'s «The Tale of Genji» is strongly recommended. No Japanese has ever written a better novel. Many aspiring writers, medieval or modern, tried hard to create a better one, but in vain. The public domain e-book on the left has some selections from «The Tale of Genji». It is about a man who adored his mother, seduced his mother-in-law who looked exactly like his mother, and found a little girl who looked like his mother, raised and made her an ideal woman, and married her. The novel was written about 1000 A.D.. The e-book on the right is a full-length version translated by Royall Tyler. There is another version translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.

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