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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Lao Tzu answers your question!
☞«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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. / "and both are called mysterious, and the mystery itself is the gateway to perception. 同謂之玄玄之又玄衆妙之門" On the right, «Tao Te Ching: A New Translation» translated by 
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». The Onsen Geisha, Komako, was considered as an ideal feminine being. If you are curious about the business practice of the profession, check Kafu Nagai's «
». Both giants in modern Japanese literature practically lived these stories though they are fictional.
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» do not correspond to each other. It is imaginable that the publisher of the English translation might have been concerned about a potential misinterpretation of its Japanese title. Look at the movie poster on the right. The discretion of the publisher should not be criticized. Nevertheless, Junichiro Tanizaki's «Manji» has nothing to do with World War 2. The novel was first published in 1928. Its title hints a four-way libidinous affair among two men and two women.
". In fact, it is the name of a theatre in Osaka, Japan. 
is the proper name of the genre of the puppet play. Chikamatsu, Monzaemon left two masterpieces: «Sonezaki Shinju» and «
». You can find both puppet plays for matured audience in 
. "Shinju 心中" is an interesting word. If you inverse the two Kanji / Chinese characters, it means "center 中心". "Shin / Kokoro 心" signifies the heart; "Ju / chu / naka 中", the middle. In the middle of the unsolvable complication of their immoral love affair, a yujo 遊女 (= "play 遊, woman 女" literally) and his client commit Shinju and leave this floating world Ukiyo 浮世 for Heaven.
» book with «
» if you are planning to settle in Japan. Don't underestimate Golden Silence.
(I might translate the title as "The life of the most lecherous man")». A fantastic book. To some Japanese in the Edo period (1603 - 1868), life was just a joke. They called it a floating world Ukiyo. Why don't we enjoy it? Read this novel and understand the philosophy of "ordinary people" in the epoch. When you see Akihabara girls in Tokyo, nothing seems to have changed much.
