Tao Te Ching Chapter 79-3 Contract without payment

Today's Tao

That's why the sage takes the contract, but doesn't ask the person to pay. (Ch.79)


In Today's Tao sentence, "the contract" symbolizes the feelings and thoughts, particularly desire, in a hologram.

"The payment", the fulfillment of them.

Let's make a few things clear.


1. Your feelings and thoughts do not belong to you.

2. They are attached to the hologram.

3. You project the hologram, but don't control it. (☞See Inmo and No mind 49-10)


Now, we are ready to discuss desire.

Desire doesn't belong to you, so you don't have to feel ashamed whatever your desire is.

You should not judge.

Nevertheless, acting directly to fulfill the desire is another thing.

It is worse if you lament the failure of the fulfillment or hold a grudge.

It creates the mental short circuit and blocks the natural flow of Tao. (☞See Brambles 30-3)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 79


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☞«Tao Te Ching» Key word comparison (31) / - Dark Depth Female [genpi / xuan pin / hsuan pin] 玄牝 - 玄 [gen / xuan / hsuan] means Dark Depth. 牝 [pi (hin) / pin], Female. This is one of the most important words in Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Mr Michael P. Garofalo has done an excellent research and comparison of the various translations. (http://www.egreenway.com/qigong/vstccs2.htm) Thanks to him, we can see easily how they translate 谷神不死, 是謂玄牝 in Chapter 6 / Valley God. / "The Spirit of the perennial spring is said to be immortal, she is called the Mysterious One." On the left, «Tao Te Ching» translated by Dwight Goddard and Henri Borel. / "The Spirit of the Depths is immortal; it is called the Azure Heaven and the Mother Earth." by Frederic Balfour. On the right, «TAO TE CHING TAOISM ULTIMATE COLLECTION - 5 Expert Translations PLUS EXPLANATIONS for BEGINNERS and EVERYONE - For YOU to get EASY UNDERSTANDING of the Tao (also named Dao De Jing, Teh King, New Way)». The book on Kindle includes the translation by Frederic Balfour.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 77-11 After life / Task successfully accomplished

Today's Tao

Although his great tasks are (successfully) accomplished, he doesn't stay there. (Ch.77)


Lao Tzu has said the same sentence in Tao Te Ching / Chapter 2 / Do not judge.

In the world, which is your hologram and a catalyst, you don't have to be successful.

Or rather, I should say: "No matter what is your evaluation of your life, you are successful".

It is quite logical because your only task in life is to emit Love (=Tao).

Whatever you do, you are sending Love, remember? (☞See Plenty of life? 75-3 and Value life 75-4)

Be careful, though.

Some might say: "All right. Our achievement doesn't matter because we are gonna leave this world anyway."

Wrong!

We do not go back to Tao after our life finishes. (☞See Man's self 77-7)

We are Tao itself.

In other words, we are "inside" Tao all the time while we do not "keep staying" in the hologram.


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☞«Tao Te Ching» Key word comparison (20) / -A famous proverb "Soften the light. Be like dust. 和光同塵" - Let's see how they translate 挫其鋭 解其紛 和其光 同其塵 in Chapter 4. The identical sentences are repeated in Chapter 56. In Tao by Matsumoto these are discussed in Chapter 56 / How to be One with Tao / "It dulls its own sharpness, unravels its own fetters, softens its own brightness, identifies itself with its own dust." On the left, «Tao Te Ching» translated by Dwight Goddard. / "Blunting sharp edges, Untangling knots, Softening the glare, Settling dust, (It evolves us all and makes the whole world one)." On the right, «The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu» translated by Brian Browne Walker.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 63-7 Minuscule

Today's Tao

Do big things while they are minuscule. (Ch.63)


This is the same as the previous sentence: "Plan complicated things while they are easy". (☞See Tao by Matsumoto video blog 63-6 Complicated?)

Please do not be fooled by the words "big / minuscule" and "complicated /easy".

It is about Bumo misho izen 父母未生以前.

You can accomplish any dream no matter how big it seems.

Don't doubt it.

If you doubt it, you will create resistance and your dream will not come true.

Reduce your resistance to materialize your dream.

How can you reduce it?

Use Reverse Thinking.

Instead of craving something, why don't you say:

"I don't have any dreams to materialize"?

Your hologram has no defects.

Don't try to add anything to the world, which is already perfect.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 63


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☞These days the Japanese call their traditional puppet presentation "Bunraku". In fact, it is the name of a theatre in Osaka, Japan. Ningyo Joruri is the proper name of the genre of the puppet play. Chikamatsu, Monzaemon left two masterpieces: «Sonezaki Shinju» and «Shinju Ten no Amijima». You can find both puppet plays for matured audience in Donald Keene's «Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu». "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.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 40-19 Generosity

Today's Tao

It is only Tao who lends anything generously and accomplishes anything very well. (Ch.40)


Tao is generous. I know you are generous.

C'mon, admit it.

And I know you don't judge anyone or anything in fact.

You help all.

You don't segregate one from another.

I know you don't.

No matter how modestly you insist you do, I don't believe it.

Because you are Tao the fundamental energy.

And Tao creates the world perfectly.

You are doing your job perfectly.

No, no, you must not say:

"Watch TV news and see the catastrophe."

Only you can create the world.

And you are doing it perfectly.


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-Jizo. I would like to address him as "O-jizo-san" as Japanese kids call this gentle deity of fertility with affection. Forget Buddhism. Forget its Hindu origin and so on. O-jizo-san simply protects kids. And they adore him until they grow up and start calculating cost per profit ratio. Then, adults grow out of their so-called harsh financial reality and go back to see the nice smile on O-jizo-san. Well, once again we see the cycle.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 34-7 Achieve Big

Today's Tao

Therefore, the wise can achieve this Big because he never tries to be Big. Thus, he can achieve this Big. (Ch.34)


You are always one with Tao.

So, why do you try to be one with Tao?

You will never achieve Satori if you wish to do so.

Because, by wishing so, you are denying that you are already in the state of Satori.

That's why Lao Tzu asks us to do nothing.

Minimize your resistance.

Enjoy all the moments of the transformation in your hologram.

Then, you can remember that you are Tao.

You have already achieved the Big.

You've got nothing to prove to anybody.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 34-6 Big's chaos

Today's Tao

All go back to Tao, but it doesn't try to be their master, so we can call it Big. (Ch.34)


"Everything" in the world is a hologram.

It comes out of Tao in order to stimulate you to emit more of the fundamental energy.

When the hologram has accomplished its task as a catalyst, it goes back to Tao.

In Tao, everything is in the state before it has a form, which is called Bumo misho izen 父母未生以前 in Zen Buddhism.

It is chaos without time or space. Time and space are parameters that only exist in our mind, our hologram.

Tao doesn't control holograms. It simply includes all. It is the origin of everything.

Tao is big, isn't it? You are big, too, because true You are Tao.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 34-3 Tao's task

Today's Tao

Tao accomplishes its tasks and has no name. (Ch.34)


Tao's task is to exist.

To do so, it needs the constant recreation of itself.

Holograms stimulate Tao, and it creates them.

Every time you accept and love your hologram, you recreate Tao because everyone of you is Tao.

Joe, you are Tao.

Jane, you are Tao, too.

How can we give only one name to Tao?


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 2-12 Don't stay

Today's Tao

Though his great tasks are accomplished, he does not stay there. (Ch.2)


What is "accomplishment" anyway?

The sage knows everything takes place in his hologram.

Whether you are successful or not, you are a movie star in your hologram.

Would you like to stay in your movie forever, though?


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 2-11 Don't rely

Today's Tao

Though something is done, he does not rely on it. (Ch.2)


Lao Tzu doesn't care about accomplish something.

Of course, he doesn't stop you from doing it.

But he simply thinks that there is danger if you try to rely on your accomplishment.

Surely, it creates your attachment to the world.

Attachment blocks the natural flow of Tao, the natural flow of Love.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 2
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-Attachment 77-10 It is the video for the identical line in Chapter 77.
-Tao by Matsumoto / Satori The sentence is also discussed here.


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