Today's Tao
Heaven's Tao gives benefits and does not damage any. (Ch.81)
"Heaven" signifies "this world right here right now", which is your hologram.
Therefore, "Heaven's Tao" means Tao in a hologram, that is to say, Tao manifested as a hologram.
This manifestation is called Hossho 法性 in Buddhism.
Your life is Hossho.
Don't worry about how you live and how others live.
All the lives are more or less the same.
Your life that manifests itself right here right now is the most important.
Don't worry about someone else's criteria to judge a man's life.
When you see them in a book or on TV, just say "thanks" and ignore them.
Gratitude is an act of sending Love (=Tao).
All the acts take place in a hologram.
So, an act of sending Love takes place in a hologram, which is the life right here right now.
That's why you must not despise this world.
You receive "Tao's Love" and all the hologram it projects.
Zen Master Dogen says:
"You must not look at anywhere but this world in order to meet Buddha".
いわゆる世界は十方みな仏世界なり
(Kobutsushin 古仏心, «Shobogenzo»)
Meeting Buddha is receiving Love.
It takes place on your face. (☞See Face Transmission / Menju / Beauty 80-8)
That's why Dogen asks you to wash your face and body well. (Senjo 洗浄, «Shobogenzo»; Senmen 洗面, «Shobogenzo»)
The world is an extension of your body.
Keep your face clean.
It is one easy and practical way to accept this world.
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Lao Tzu answers your question!
☞«Recommended Books 17» Zen Master Ikkyu was a good friend of Konparu Zenchiku, a dancer/actor of Noh theatre. This eccentric duo wrote and performed «Yama Uba» in a village in medieval Japan. You can study Zen Buddhism, but studying something is not necessarily living it. Rather, you can learn Zen without analyzing Sutras and Mantras. Meditation will certainly help you find out what Zen is, but if you think squatting a la Japonaise will teach it better than theatre does, you will never learn what it is. You can even learn Zen while frying French fries at a diner. Peter Brook's «Empty Space
» inevitably makes a Japanese think about "Ma 間", spacial or sonic emptiness. The Japanese have been considering it as the rich source of creativity. If you find the concept of Everything = Nothing a bit too hard to grasp, why don't you look to this theatrical genius for advice? You don't have to go straight to the gate of Tao or Zen. Anne Bogart will show you some backstage door to get in there. Read her «Viewpoint
», and you will see why theatre is a good friend of Zen Buddhism.
». Ikkyu, who would be a cynic poet dressed in a John Galliano dress if he lived now, wrote the play in order to tell how Zen functions. (☞Read its modern adaptation «
» 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». 
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.
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: Daily Wisdom from Mystics, Sages, Poets, and Saints» written by Josh Baran. / "We are in the midst of what some called 'a major turning point in history.'" On the right, «
» written by Diane Dreher and Lao Tzu. / More than ever we need Tao now. But "What is «now»?
: Using Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching as a Guide to an Awakened Spiritual Life» written by William Martin. / "Tao can be talked about, but not the Eternal Tao." On the right, «
» translated by John C. H. Wu.
» directed by Akira Kurosawa in 1954. On the right, «
/ Tasogare Seibei たそがれ清兵衛» shot in 2002. It is directed by Yoji Yamada of the well-known «
» series.
, shooting a woman is an act of love. Unlike 
and 
he is able to use cameras. Now love in Tokyo can be recorded numerically.
". There is a band called "
". A few decades ago, it seemed that Japan had abandoned being "Japan" and was transforming all its territory into "Tokyo". All the provincial areas wanted to be as sophisticated as Tokyo, and the country was on the verge of a successful transition from "lost Japan" to "Greater Tokyo". Old soldiers did not disappear easily, and now it seems that the pendulum has changed its direction completely. The fastest aging industrialized nation is creating a bigger and bigger mass of post-comsumers. The younger Japanese haven't got cash to spend for sure, but they are still happy because spending money is no longer "sexy" there.
