Tao Te Ching Chapter 81-2 Good one

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A good one doesn't talk. One who talks is not good. (Ch.81)


The good one is Tao.

Tao doesn't talk because conversations only take place in a hologram.

Tao is not a hologram.

A hologram is a manifestation of Tao.

What is "good", and what is "evil"?

Jodo / Pure Land Buddhists Honen 法然 and Shinran 親鸞 told us «The Doctrine of Evil Persons as the Object of Salvation / Akunin shoki setsu 悪人正機説».

In Buddhism, Shoki 正機 signifies "the people qualified for salvation".

Sho 正, like the Sho of «Shobogenzo 正法眼蔵», means "authentic".

This Ki 機 here is not the same as Ki 気 of energy.

This Ki 機 means "a mechanism".

The two masters were telling us:

"Evil people are part of the authentic mechanism".

This mechanism is Shin 心, the Tao/hologram mechanism that stimulates us to emit more Love (=Tao).

There is neither good nor evil in Tao.

As Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida explains in his «A Study of Good», being good is learning that true You are Tao. (☞See No favoritism 79-4)

You don't need to judge any.


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☞«Recommended Books 12» Kitaro Nishida and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki were good friends. They were friends from high school. They met each other at Ishikawa-ken Senmon Gakko. The school later changed its name to Dai 4 Koto Gakko, which literally means "the forth high school". It was one of the most prestige high schools in Japan before WW2. The school was closed in 1950. Its tradition was spiritually inherited by Kanazawa University. Nishida was part of the founding members of Koa Kogyo University, now called Chiba Institute of Technology. «An Inquiry into the good» on the left is the same book as «A Study of Good». The book shines as the beacon of modern Japanese philosophy. Kitaro Nishida was an excellent thinker and black sheep where many people say "A good one doesn't 'think'. One who 'thinks' is not good".

Tao Te Ching Chapter 79-4 No favoritism

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Heaven's Tao has no favoritism. It is always on the side of a good person. (Ch.79)


"Heaven" means your hologram as the word "sky" does.

So, Heaven's Tao signifies Tao's energy inside all the beings in the hologram.

In other words, it is Hossho 法性, the nature of manifestation. (☞See Hossho stays low 76-9)

Tao does not judge.

It seems that the limited capacity of human beings judge.

Tao's energy inside your hologram has no favoritism.

There is neither good nor bad in Tao.

Then, what does "a good person" mean?

"A good person" means you.

True You are Tao.

Therefore, only you can sustain the Tao/hologram mechanism, Shin 心.


Japanese philosopher Kitaro Nishida 西田幾多郎 (1870 - 1945) says:

"Practically speaking, we have only one true Good, which is to find out the true Self. That's all."

(translated by Naoto Matsumoto; Book III, Chapter 13, The Perfect Good Action, «A Study of the Good 善の研究» ☞See A study of the Good 49-3 and Goodness 49-5)


[Note]
What is the true Self?
"It is the true body of the cosmos", Nishida answers. (Ditto)
The true body of the cosmos is the Tao/hologram mechanism, Shin 心.


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☞«An Inquiry into the Good» and «A Study of the Good» are the same book. Kitaro Nishida 西田幾多郎 first wrote this book in order to teach his high school students. The Japanese title is «Zen no Kenkyu 善の研究». Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki 鈴木大拙, the author of many important books on Zen in English, was Nishida's close friend. They met each other at a high school in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. High school education is no longer available exclusively for the elite these days while its level is not so academically "high" as the name declares.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 78-1 Water summary

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Nothing in the world under the sky is softer and weaker than water. (Ch.78)


If you don't know what to do, be like water.

Let's summarise the water-like attitude.


1. Believe you are influencing all like flooded water. (☞See Flooded water 34-1)

2. Give benefit to all. (☞See Water benefits all 8-2)

3. Stay at the bad place. (☞See Water stay at the bad place 8-3)

4. Believe true You are Tao. (☞See Water is close to Tao 8-4)

5. Don't compete. (☞See Water never errs 8-5)

6. Don't worry even if you feel as confused as muddy water. (☞See Muddy water 15-10)

7. Treat your hologram as if water treats a fish. (☞See Fish and Water 36-7)

8. Be soft and weak. (☞See Soft and Weak 76-6)

9. Accept all.

10. Don't resist. No resistance!


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 78


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☞«Tao Te Ching» Key word comparison (21) / -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. / Both in «Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)», on the left, and «Tao Te Ching: An Illustrated Journey», the expression above is not found in Chapter 4. Stephen Mitchell is the translator. / "With it, the sharp edges become smooth the twisted knots loosen the sun is softened by a cloud the dust settles into place" On the right, «Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions)» translated by Jonathan Star.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 67-7 Don't waste holograms

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The second one is not to waste any. (Ch.67)


The second treasure is "not to waste" any in your hologram.

Don't waste any because everything is the manifestation of Tao.

It is a catalyst asking you to emit more Tao (=Love).

Accept all with gratitude whether they are good or bad, and you will not waste any.

For example, chew everything well.

You are eating someone else's life whether it is an animal or a plant.

Assimilate its energy into your body with respect.

Not only food but everything is Master Dogen's "painted rice-cake / Gabyo 画餅", which stimulates you to fill Tao's mechanism with the energy of Love (=Tao).


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☞The word "rice-cake" is misleading. It is used to express both the cake made of rice and the traditional Japanese Mochi rice cake. These are Japanese Mochi. The ones on the left are non-sweetened authentic cake for festivities. On the right, they are modern sweets invented relatively recently.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 67-4 3 treasures

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I have got three treasures. (Ch.67)


To be one with Tao, or to remember that true You are Tao, you have got three useful ways.


1. Send Love.

2. Don't waste any.

3. Don't try to be the first. / Try not to be the first.


First, you receive and send Love, which is the fundamental energy Tao.

Second, you should respect all the elements in your hologram.

All of them, the seemingly good and the seemingly bad alike, exist to stimulate you as catalysts.

So, don't waste them.

Third, you don't need to try to be "the first" because you are "the only respectable being". (☞See Ordinary? 67-3)

These three ways will be discussed one by one later.


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☞Jizo (Ksitigarbha) has an important role in Japan's everyday life. For example, this Japanese "Enka (country)" singer Koji Fukushima sings «Furusato Jizo / Jizo in my home village». "I wanna go home. I miss my Jizo."

Tao Te Ching Chapter 62-1 Hidden Tao

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Something called Tao is hidden at the bottom of everything. (Ch.62)


Everything is your hologram, that is to say, an illusion.

Having said that, this does not mean at all that the hologram is ignorable.

On the contrary, it has to be cherished.

Everything in your world, which is your hologram, contains the fundamental energy Tao.

Whether it is qualified as good or bad, at the very bottom of anything, Tao hides itself, waiting to be received.

Be nice to Tao.

Be nice to the world in front of you.

Be nice to your own self.


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☞While Genshin and Honen worshipped the pictures and statues of Amida, the objects of Shinran's worship were written characters. There were three sets: 南無阿弥陀仏 [namu amida butsu], 南無不可思議光如来 [namu fukashigi ko nyurai], 帰命尽十方無碍光如来 [kimei jinjippokai muge ko nyorai]. The last of the three contains the word "muge 無碍 ko 光", which means "Infinite light", "undisturbed light", and "the light that lights up everything". Rennyo is the second founder of Jodo Shin shu / Pure Land Shin school. Daisetz Suzuki was not only a Zen specialist, but wrote about Shin Buddhism and Amida Butsu / Amitabha Buddha.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 58-1 Dark government

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When the government is dark and obscure, the people are naive. (Ch.58)


A: "Master Bonbon, is our government bad?"

B: "Yes. Your government is dark and obscure because the people are bad."


Lao Tzu doesn't agree with you, Master Bonbon.

He thinks that, when the government is less visible, the people are close to Tao.

Don't be upset by "the government" or "the people" inside your TV set.

They are part of your hologram.

When the hologram looks "dark and obscure", in other words, when you don't pay attention to it, you are "naive" like a baby.

Then, you don't doubt that you are one with Tao.


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☞Here we have nice Christmas gifts from Japan. The word "matcha" means the tea power for a tea ceremony in Japanese. Have you ever tried a Matcha ice cream? It is delicious. ☞Buckwheat is "soba" in Japanese. The Japanese enjoy the noodles made out of it and use its husks to stuff a comfortable pillow.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 52-9 The light

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Use its light. Return to its enlightenment. Then, your body's bad luck will disappear. (Ch.52)


"Light" is Love, Tao, Buddha, Zen, Amida, Absolute, or whatever you would like to call the fundamental energy.

Through the objects you see, the acts you do, and the thoughts you bear, you receive the light.

When you receive the light, you should return it to its origin.

But how?

Well, you do nothing.

Because life itself is Satori, or enlightenment.

Don't be terrified by "Your body's bad luck".

All disasters and misfortunes are your hologram projected by you.

You are always safe because true You are Tao.

You are just in the state of being lost, Mayoi.

The disasters and misfortunes are catalysts to stimulate you to emit more love.

Remember Mayoi is not an antonym of Satori.


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☞Yakuza やくざ. "Ya や" is hachi 八, which means eight in Japanese. "Ku く" nine 九. "Za ざ" indicates san 三, which is three. Eight 8, nine 9, and three 3 make twenty 20. The last digit of twenty is zero 0. In a traditional game Hana Fuda, (for which Nintendo was known before the invention of Ultra Hand by Gunpei Yokoi, the father of Super Mario Brothers), zero is the point you get when you have the cards of eight, nine and three points. Therefore, the expression "yakuza" signifies uselessness, some think.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-7 No one-horned water buffalo

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No one-horned water buffalo finds a place to pitch its horn at. (Ch.50)


A: "Master Bonbon, I am scared something bad is gonna happen to me. Please help me."

B: "You are my best client. Donate all of your money, and you will be protected."

A: "But I have no money, Master Bonbon. Instead of paying money, I will meditate. Will I be saved?"

B: "Get out of here if you have no money."


No one in your hologram will be able to hurt you.

The world, which is your hologram, exists to stimulate you, not to hurt you.

You don't have to pay money or meditate.

You are always safe.


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☞Have you ever heard of "the frog in the well"? It often suggests "a person who doesn't know anything about the outside world". However, if you read the context where Chuang Tzu used it originally, you can see that it is not exactly the same as we interpret it. It is a beautiful metaphor of a hologram projected in our mind screen. You can find the expression in Chapter 17 / Autumn Water of the Outer Chapters. Not in the Inner Chapters, which are widely available.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 39-9 Heaven torn apart

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If heaven were not clear, it might be torn apart. (Ch.39)


"Oh, my god! Heaven got dark. It is a bad omen. Something bad is gonna happen. Heaven is gonna be torn apart."

Don't worry. The world is safe.

Because you are the one who is projecting it.

Here Lao Tzu is not scaring you. On the contrary, he is assuring you.

Heaven is always clear because it is the manifestation of Tao.

Your world will be always safe because it exists within you.


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-Ryokan is a Saint Francis of Assisi of Japan. Or, he went even further in terms of loving other living beings. He even loved fleas and lice. Once in a while he felt sorry for those living on his body and had them sun-bathe by taking off his clothes and stretching them out in the sun.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 30-9 Can't help it

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It's just a result. Say you couldn't help it. (Ch.30)


Please ask old Sai (Favour 13-4) if losing his horse is a good result or not.

Then, ask him if his son breaking the leg is a bad result or not.

His answer is always the same:

"You never know".

He is right because there is neither good nor bad.

One cannot help the result.

Thinking about another result hypothetically is a waste of energy.

We cannot help the result because it is the best result no matter how awful it seems.

Let's believe it.


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-Surely, you can translate the name of «Makura no Soshi» as "The Pillow Book". It is not linguistically wrong or immorally distorted. Not at all. The author, Sei Shonagon who was born more than one thousand years ago, might be quite happy to have this title with tongue in cheek. She must have been a cheeky intellectual maid in the imperial palace.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 30-8 No arrogance

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It's just a result. Don't be arrogant. (Ch.30)


Lao Tzu keeps on asking us not to be arrogant.

Then, to him, what is being arrogant?

He says:

"Being a good man is just a result. Don't be arrogant".

It seems that Lao Tzu thought being good is arrogant.

Well, being good is bad. Being bad is good.

Sounds a bit like Honen and Shinran's Akunin shoki setsu 悪人正機説 (The Doctrine of Evil Persons as the Object of Salvation).

It is logical, isn't it?

There is neither good nor bad in Tao.

If you try to distinguish something from another, it won't work with Tao.


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-We don't really know why you call it «Ise monogatari / The tales of Ise». It is about an aristocrat's life when the samurai did not yet grasp the power. If you buy a packaged tour to Japan, chances are that you will visit Ise Shrine. Then, you can think about the Japanese man in the ancient times who might have visited the princess offered to Shintoist god of Ise.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 30-7 Don't boast

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It's just a result. Don't boast. (Ch.30)


Once again Lao Tzu asks us not to boast, but boast about what?

In the previous sentences of this chapter, Lao Tzu says that being a good man is just a result.

War is a good example.

A good man in this side of the border is a bad man in the other side.

In the history of human beings, we know plenty of individuals who boasted, "I am good", and regretted it the day after.


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-If you like legends and fantastic stories, this is for you. «The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter» and «The Old bamboo-Hewer's story» have different English titles, but they share the same original story «Taketori Monogatari». An alien princess born in the bamboo fascinates terrestrial men. They fight each other to marry the beautiful princess who has to go back to the outer space. «The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter» might be worth checking because it was translated into modern Japanese by Yasunari Kawabata and into English by Donald Keene. They are probably the best duo to introduce Japanese literature to English readers.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 28-15 The greatest control

Today's Tao

Therefore, the greatest control doesn't split any. (Ch.28)


Tao is "the greatest control".

It cannot be divided, so don't split any.

Since everything is one, the idea of dividing something does not suit Tao.

So, don't judge. Don't tell good from evil.

Do nothing and accept all.

This is the greatest control of all.

Why don't we give Tao a bit more credit.

Tao knows. Tao flows.

The rest is a nice steak sauce to stimulate your appetite.


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-Let's go to Matsuyama, Japan. They have fantastic Dogo Onsen the hot spa. Botchan, probably one of the best known characters in Japanese literature, adores to take a bath there. The word "Botchan" could be translated as a naive rich kid in English. Because of his naivety the Japanese adore him. A onsen and a young man gives another aspect of the hot spring tradition than a geisha and a bath. Somehow it touches the heartstrings of the nation of onsen lovers, too.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 27-11 Lost completely

Today's Tao

If you don't value your teacher, if you don't love your resources, no matter how wise you are, you will be lost completely. (Ch.27)


As we have discussed them in the previous entries, "teacher" and "resources" mean a good man and a non-good man.

They suggest a cycle.

It is the cycle where the fundamental energy is emitted and received.

It is the cycle between Tao and your hologram.

But, don't separate the two.

Don't try to understand the cycle intellectually.

Just love the world, which is your hologram in front of you.

Don't despise the world, saying that it is just an illusion.

Otherwise, you will be profoundly lost in the abyss of intellectualization.


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-"Sensei!" If you are learning Japanese, you know it. There are too many homophones in this language. If someone says that "sensei" means a teacher, he is right. If another says that "sensei" means a surprise attack, well, he is almost right. "Sensei" can be a leadoff attack. If you want to declare under oath something like peace, it is "sensei" as well.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 27-10 No bad man

Today's Tao

A non-good man is the resources of a good one. (Ch.27)


Yesterday, we talked about "a good man is the teacher of a non-good one".

Please pay attention to the expression "non-good" man 不善人.

In the original of Tao Te Ching, it is not written as a "bad" man 悪人.

There is neither good nor bad in Tao.

Good is the source of non-good.

Non-good is the source of good.

It shows us the cycle of Yin and Yang.

It doesn't matter whether the hen or the egg comes first.

As long as it cycles, it is perfect.


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-Hanzo on the left is Hanzo Itami in Goyokiba. Hanzo on the right is Hanzo Hattori in Kill Bill. The latter is not Hanzo the Ninja minister, but his descendent acted by Sonny Chiba (Shin'ichi Chiba), who played the great athlete cop in Key Hunter series. Since I was a kid, I have been wondering what a key hunter means.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 27-9 No good man

Today's Tao

So, a good man is the teacher of a non-good one. (Ch.27)


Don't judge anyone.

There is neither good man nor bad one.

Zen Master Dogen says:

"It is not that something evil does not exist. Just do nothing. It is not that something evil exists. Just do nothing." (Shoakumakusa 諸悪莫作, «Shobogenzo»)

Today's Tao sentence should be read along with tomorrow's.

«Do nothing» is the creation of Tao's cycle.

If you read just Today's sentence, you will make just a one-way street.


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-To a certain generation of Japanese men, Mako Midori (on the left) and Meiko Kaji (on the right) have left a long-lasting trace in their memory. While Meiko Kaji has been given some special place in the heart of some men living outside Japanese islands thanks to Quentin Tarantino, fewer and fewer men remembers the name of Mako Midori because of the diminishing number of baby boomers in the archipelago.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 24-4 True righteousness

Today's Tao

If a man think he is right, his righteousness is not visible. (Ch.24)


Don't judge.

There is neither good nor bad in Tao.

The moment you think you are right, you are wrong.

The true righteousness is not something like that.

It is following Tao.

What do you have to do to follow Tao?

Do nothing.

You don't have to do anything to be right.

Because you are always right.

Unless you judge others.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 24
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-Before he became the creator of the stories in the text books used by most good boys and girls with a decent education, Yasunari Kawabata was a cool and fashionable writer. He wrote about Asakusa, the most a-la-mode place in the islands of the rising sun before World War 2. When you visit it now, it is a bit difficult to imagine. Read the Scarlet Gang of Asakusa. Those boys and girls without education in the story are much more radical than the kids around Akihabara now.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 23-3 Downpour

Today's Tao

A noisy downpour doesn't last all day. (Ch.23)


There are some maxims to which our conventional wisdom will agree.

When we face an adversity, let's remember this.

"A noisy downpour doesn't last all day."

We can even go a step further.

Let's say "thank you" to that noisy downpour.

There is no bad weather unless you judge it.

It rains for us.

To give us a chance to thank and emit the fundamental energy Tao.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 23


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-A ricksha goes. It goes in the rain. When it rains, it pours in the tropics. When it rains in Japan, there is always a woman waiting for a man. When it rains cats and dogs, they make love in the realm of Uki-yo, the floating world. "Never mind the rain. If it stops raining, people can hear what we are doing."
Caution! «Empire of Passion / the Real of Passion» is NOT «Ai no Corrida».