Tao Te Ching Chapter 67-10 Be vast

Today's Tao

I don't waste any, so I can be vast. (Ch.67)


You are vast because true You are Tao.

No matter what you do, you are not wasting Tao's energy.

You (=Tao) receive the energy through the world, which is your hologram.


In Zen Buddhism, they say:

"尽十方界是自己光明

[jin jippo kai kore jiko no komyo / jin juppo kai kore jiko no komyo]

Ten nooks and crannies of the whole world are your light".

(Komyo 光明, «Shobogenzo»)


You are as vast as the world.

You may not like this world.

You might think that you refuse to accept it.

But it is not possible because you are the world.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 67


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☞«Koshihikari コシヒカリ» means the light of Niigata. It is the one of the best rice brands in Japan. «Genmai 玄米» is a Japanese expression for unpolished rice. It literally means black rice. The Kanji / Chinese character 玄 [gen] is also used to express Dark Depth, that is, Tao.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 61-10 Work on people

Today's Tao

A small country simply wants to enter and work on people. (Ch.61)


Do you think some authority or power is dictating to your life?

What Lao Tzu is saying here is rather the other way round.

The outside world, which is your hologram, seems to be influencing you and your life, but it doesn't in fact.

In Zen Buddhism, they use various expressions to illustrate a hologram:

山河大地

[sen ga daichi]

"mountains, rivers, and lands"

and

尽十方界

[jin juppo (jippo) kai]

"ten nooks and crannies of the whole world"

among others.

Its sole objective is to stimulate the circulation of the fundamental energy Tao.

Then, how can we get along with it?


Master Dogen answers the question with a metaphor of a man and a boat.

「われふねにのりて、このふねをもふねならしむ」

[ware fune ni nori te, kono fune wo mo fune narashimu]

"I go on board the boat and make it be a boat." (boat = hologram)

(Zenki 全機, «Shobogenzo»)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 61


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☞When you visit an island in the southern Pacific Ocean, you may come across a tree tied with many strips of colorful cloth. This is a sacred tree. The tree protects the local people. The reminiscence of this worship still remains in the collective memory of the Japanese. We have not forgotten at all our distant past before the days some of our ancestors traveled across the sea from the islands and settled in this archipelago. No wonder Jizo Bodhisattva wear a fancy Pikachu cap in Japan. (See the photo of Jizo Bodhisattva with a Pikachu cap) He is a reincarnation of the sacred tree in the islands of Nintendo. Now Jizo with colorful strips has come back to Hawaii.  («Guardian of the Sea / Jizo in Hawaii»@Amazon) Looking down the ocean, he is doing his business as usual, protecting the locals and travelers.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-13 Jin juppo kai / See the world

Today's Tao

See the world under the sky through the world under the sky. (Ch.54)


See Tao through your hologram.

What is "the world under the sky"?

In the original Kanji / Chinese characters, it is written 天下 [tenka], which literally means "under the sky" and is often translated as "the world".

In Zen Buddhism, they like to use the expression 尽十方界 [jin juppo (jippo) kai].

Each Kanji / Chinese character signifies "exhaust - ten - direction - area" respectively.

The phrase can be translated as "ten nooks and crannies of the whole world".


Master Dogen says in the chapter of Jippo (Juppo) in his Shobogenzo:

"Ten nooks and crannies of the whole world are the only eye of a one-eyed monk.

That is to say, they are the only eye of the one-eyed Monk Gautama Buddha.

Monk Gautama Buddha's eye is «Shobogenzo / the authentic manifestation of holography», which I have got."

尽十方界是沙門一隻眼。いまいうところは瞿曇沙門眼の一隻なり。瞿曇沙門眼は吾有正法眼蔵なり。

(Jippo 十方, «Shobogenzo»)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 54


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☞The world = Jippokai (Juppokai) = Hologram = Ukiyo = The floating world. «An Artist of the Floating World» is one of Kazuo Ishigro's first successful novels. It was shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize. Utamaro is one of the best known Japanese painters internationally. Kitagawa Utamaro and Katsushika Hokusai were the two giants of Ukiyo-e prints. Some of their works are still illegal to exhibit in Japan, which seems to have an effect to stimulate the imagination of its citizens.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-8 World

Today's Tao

Learn it in the world under the sky, and its attainment is omnipresent. (Ch.54)


This sentence summarizes the paragraph.

The world is your hologram.

Learn Tao in the hologram.

In other words, receive Tao through the hologram.

This is Tao's attainment.


Zen master Dogen looks at this from another point of view:

"The so-called light of Buddha is ten nooks and crannies of the whole world".

いわゆる仏祖の光明は尽十方界なり

(Komyo 光明, «Shobogenzo»)


At any part of this world, in every sphere of your hologram, you are seeing Buddha's light, which is Love, which is Tao.

It exists everywhere, waiting to be received.


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☞There are some cities you want to visit at least once in your life time: Paris, Venice, and so on. I don't know if Kyoto belongs to this category, but it is worth visiting a real Zen garden in Ryoan-ji temple at lease once in our life time. Yasunari Kawabata's «The Old Capital» is an informative reading material although it was written as a novel. Some suspect that the author's intention was not creating a dramatical catharsis but recording as many ceremonies and rituals in Kyoto as possible. The beautiful twin sisters guide the town and country of Japan's old capital.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 49-2 People's heart

Today's Tao

He takes people's heart as his own. (Ch.49)


In Zen Buddhism, we call this

尽十方界無一人不自己

[jin juppo (jippo) kai jiko ni arazarumono hitorimo nashi].

That is to say, "in ten nooks and crannies of the whole world, there is no one who is not your own self."

(Jippo 十方, «Shobogenzo»)


People's feelings are yours.

Their thoughts are yours, too.

You and non-you are the same.

Why don't we call them "yourself under your control" and "yourself beyond your control".

Other people are "yourself beyond your control" like your stomach and intestines.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 49


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☞"Hara gei / Haragei 腹芸" can be translated as the art of the belly, which is the ultimate art of non-verbal communication even without gestures. As time goes by, Japan has been transforming itself from a beehive of robot-like human working bees to a lazy post-consumer society with real robots who do the work. Did Haragei lose its significance? Yes, in a way. No, at the deep bottom of communication in the country. Please watch cute Sylvie Testud's «Fear and Trembling» or read its original by Amelie Nothomb. The Floating World's business attitude has changed, but you are still expected to sense the demand of the person in front of you before he or she pronounces it in the island of Uki-yo.