Friday, November 30, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 50 Life (playlist)




Leave life and enter non-life/death. (50-1)
What does Lao Tzu want to tell us with this sentence?
Zen Master Dogen helps us to answer the question, by using an excellent metaphor of a fish in the water.

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Zen master Sozan Honjaku 曹山本寂 [Ts'ao-shan Pen-chi] told his disciple that when a mule looks at the well, the well looks at the mule. (Egenroku 会元録, Book 13)

Dogen wrote: "Not just that."

"The well looks at the well. The mule looks at the mule. A man looks at the man himself. A mountain looks at the mountain itself." (Shoakumakusa 諸悪莫作, «Shobogenzo» ☞See 50-8)

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Tao Te Ching Chapter 49 No heart (playlist)




In this Chapter 49 No heart, two important Buddhist concepts are explained.
One is Tariki 他力 / Other Power (49-6);
the other is Inmo Butsu 恁麼物 / a "what on earth" thing (49-10).

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What is the good?
Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida answers:
"We have only one true good, which is to find out the true Self."
(Book III Chapter 13, «A Study of the Good»)

He was a high school mate of the well-know Zen scholar Daisetz Suzuki.

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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 48 Reduce & reduce (playlist)




"When you study, you accumulate your knowledge everyday. When you do Tao, you reduce everything every day." (48-1)

They are ones of the best known sentences in Tao Te Ching. When you think about what the Taoist/Buddhist economy is, they will tell us many things. For the academics, it might be difficult to accept them, I imagine. Let's live Taoism and Zen Buddhism instead of just studying them. Watch all the five videos of «Tao Te Ching Chapter 48 Reduce & reduce».

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"By doing nothing, you can do everything." (48-3)

This expression "do nothing" has been confusing the occidental world for a fairly long time.The question is "Can you really do nothing?".

"Do nothing" means "Accept all and emit Love (=Tao, =Zen, =Buddha)".

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 47 No outside (playlist)




There are two key things. There is no such thing as Self. Therefore, there is no objective world outside you. In this chapter, we learn Kensho Jobutsu 見性成仏 (=See one's nature and become Buddha).

First, you learn that your own self and the rest of the world are part of the hologram. (1)

Then, your hologram will teach you what Tao and Buddha is. (2)

This exchange between (1) and (2) is precisely the cycle of Yin and Yang, Tao's cycle,  the prayer wheel, or the wheel of the manifestation (Horin 法輪).



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Monday, November 26, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 46 Be content (playlist)




"No one can ever do anything evil," says Zen Master Dogen, "Even if all the evils had covered the whole world in many layers and swallowed all, you could emancipate yourself by doing nothing." (Shoakumakusa 諸悪莫作, «Shobogenzo»)

We also discuss Joushu's 趙州 famous Koan: "What is the intention of Bodhidharma's coming from the West?".

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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 45 Perfection (playlist)




For some people, it might be too difficult to accept Lao Tzu's teachings in this Chapter 45 Perfection because he teaches you that your life and the world are perfect: "You (are) the master of the world under the sky."
 That's why Zen Master Tozan Ryokai says: "When it's cold, make yourself feel cold completely".
Zen Master Dogen paraphrases this: "Cold is the very living holography of Buddha ancestors."
As for the quotes of the two masters, read or watch Tao Te Ching Chapter 45-8 Cold / Tozan Ryokai.



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Saturday, November 24, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 44 No attachment (playlist)




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Friday, November 23, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 43 No existence (playlist)




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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 42 One, two, three (playlist)




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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 41 Tao's move (playlist)




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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 40 Laughable (playlist)




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Tao Te Ching Chapter 39 One (playlist)




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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 38 The highest attainment (playlist)




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Saturday, November 17, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 37 No desire (playlist)




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Tao Te Ching Chapter 36 Reverse way (playlist)




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Thursday, November 15, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 35 Big's image (playlist)




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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 34 Tao's state (playlist)




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Tao Te Ching Chapter 33 Self (playlist)




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Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 32 Nameless (playlist)




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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 30 Result (playlist)




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Saturday, November 10, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 29 A god's vessel (playlist)




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Friday, November 9, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 28 Uncarved block (playlist)




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Thursday, November 8, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 27 Love all (playlist)




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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 26 Root (playlist)




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Tao Te Ching Chapter 25 Manifestation (playlist)




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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 24 Don't show off (playlist)




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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 23 Noises don't last (playlist)




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Tao Te Ching Chapter 22 Return to Tao (playlist)




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Friday, November 2, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 21 Tao the essence (playlist)




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Thursday, November 1, 2012

Tao Te Ching Chapter 20 Eat mother (playlist)




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