Tao Te Ching Chapter 69-4 Advance without advancing

Today's Tao

This is called advancing without advancing, rolling up the sleeves of no arm, taking up no arms, and pulling in no enemy. (Ch.69)


Can we advance without advancing?

Yes.

Act no act. 為無為

This is one of the best-known sentences in Tao Te Ching. (☞See Act without acting 3-7)

Can we really act without acting?

Yes.

Lao Tzu asks you to "roll up the sleeves of no arm".

This is a Taoist counterpart to Zen Buddhist Hakuin's famous Koan:

"What is the sound of one hand?". (☞See The sound without a sound 14-4)

All of them are talking about the same thing: how to use your hologram.

All the acts, including advancing, are part of your hologram.

All the objects, including one of your hands, are part of the hologram.

So are arms and enemies.

How can you use them?

It is simple.

"Do nothing."

In other words, by accepting all, maintain the circulation of Love, or the fundamental energy Tao.


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-Use of arms 69-1
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-Retreat 69-3
-Advance without advancing 69-4
-Underestimating the enemy 69-5
-Lost treasures 69-6
-Love wins 69-7
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 69


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☞According to an English dictionary, the definition of "matsuri" is: a solemn festival celebrated periodically at Shinto shrines in Japan. It is something more than that. Etymologically speaking, "ma" means an empty space or time. "Tsuri" signifies being suspended in the air. To the Japanese, "matsuri" is "a suspended time". Enjoy the sample music of the Japanese traditional drum Taiko on the left. Happi is a traditional costume for a matsuri. You can see the nice Kanji / Chinese character matsuri 祭 written in red in the middle of the back.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 14-4 The sound without a sound

Today's Tao

It's called the sound without a sound. (Ch.14)


Let's decode this.

Tao can manifest itself as a sound, but the sound exists only in your hologram.

Tao can manifest itself through the hologram, which means the world.


Naoto Matsumoto adds:

We have the famous koan of Hakuin 白隠 (a Japanese Zen Buddhist 1685 - 1768).

隻手声あり、その声を聞け [Sekishu koe ari, sono koe wo kike].

translation:

One hand has voices. Listen to the voices.


("Two hands clap and there is a sound. What is the sound of one hand?"---Wikipedia)


Hakuin used this koan to propagate his teachings. There is a conversation between Hakuin and Osan, an Japanese old woman and his disciple. (Ref: http://hk-kishi.web.infoseek.co.jp/kokoro-127.htm)


Hakuin: There are sounds and voices when both hands hit each other. What sounds and voices are there in one hand?

Osan: Instead of listening to the voice of Hakuin's one hand, I want to hit both hands and do business.

Hakuin: If you can do business by hitting both hands, you don't need to listen to the sound of the one hand.


«Related Articles»
-You can't see Tao 14-1
-The form without a form 14-2
-You can't hear Tao 14-3
-The sound without a sound 14-4
-You can't grasp Tao 14-5
-The minute being 14-6
-You can't find out Tao 14-7
-Mixed and one 14-8
-Not brilliant 14-9
-Yama Uba under it 14-10
-Tao has no name 14-11
-Back to nothingness 14-12
-The shape without a shape 14-13
-Evasive being 14-14
-Tao's face 14-15
-Tao's rear 14-16
-Distant past 14-17
-Big Bang 14-18
-Tao's quintessence 14-19
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 14
-Tao by Matsumoto / Manifestation

-Hakuin@wiki


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