Tao Te Ching Chapter 67-2 Parents

Today's Tao

Simply I am Big, so I resemble an idiot who doesn't look like his parents. (Ch.67)


Big is a nickname of Tao. (☞See Ch. 25 Manifestation and Big 25-9)

Then, what is "an idiot who doesn't look like his parents"?

Please do not mix this expression with Bumo misho izen: before the father and the mother are born.

This expression is the translation of the Kanji / Chinese characters 不肖 [fusho].

It means an idiot, but the two characters originally signified "not to resemble the parents" (Osamu Kanaya, «Roshi 老子», Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko)

Today's Tao sentence means:

"Simply true You are Tao, so you resemble an idiot who does not look like others in your hologram".

Don't be intelligent, and you will remember Tao is true You.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 67


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☞Osamu Kanaya (1920 - 20060) was a Japanese specialist on Chinese philosophy. It seems that his works have never been translated into English. It is a pity.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 64-19 Excess

Today's Tao

He brings back people's excess to the state it was before. (Ch.64)


The kanji / Chinese character 過 [ka] signifies both "excess" and "past".

"Past" in the sense of "has been".

The thing that has been is the hologram that you have just received.

In Taoism, it is important to return this "has been" hologram to the state before it was projected.

How can we bring it back?

It's easy.

In the episode of 22-14 Return it!, simple Reverse Thinking is explained.

Read this entry with 22-4 Before parents' birth.

It will help you to better understand Reverse Thinking.

If you want to know about Tao's mechanism in terms of "return", the episode of 60-6 Returns to each other will be helpful.

Now you don't have to worry about your destiny.

You know how to bring it back.

(☞See Destiny 16-7)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64


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☞Don't underestimate her. A geisha was an artist, an artist of love-making. Like a good lawyer, their service cost a fortune and no longer exists in the same manner in a democratized post-war "floating world". Artists of love have been replaced by novices of love. All we can do now retrospectively is to read the masterpieces about the subject written by artists in literature. An artist with a pen and an artist of love used to go hand in hand. If you are interested in the humane side of the profession, read Yasunari Kawabata's «Snow Country». 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 «Rivalry». Both giants in modern Japanese literature practically lived these stories though they are fictional.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 64-2 Before materialization

Today's Tao

It is easy to treat a thing before it has appeared. (Ch.64)


Everything appears.

It is projected as a hologram.

The state before the projection is called "Bumo misho izen 父母未生以前" in Zen Buddhism.

It means "before the father and the mother are born".

Once you accept the mechanism between Tao and holograms, everything will be easy.


Master Dogen says:

"The life of right now exists in this mechanism;

this mechanism exists in the life of right now".

いまの生はこの機関にあり、この機関はいまの生にあり

(Zenki 全機, «Shobogenzo»)


Life is not the period between birth and saying good-bye to life.

Birth and "good-bye" take place simultaneously inside the mechanism.

Life is a timeless hologram in the mechanism between "the projecting" and "the projected".

Treat your life before the projection.

In other words, do nothing right now.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64


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☞Let's stop saying that they are different. Infinite Light / Mugeko 無碍光・無礙光 is another name of Zen (=Love, =Buddha), which is pointing at the fundamental energy Tao. The more names we create, the more confused we get. As Lao Tzu says, "The word does not stand for what it really is". («Tao Te Ching» Chapter 1). No wonder Daisetz Suzuki was more inclined to Tariki / Other-power later in his life. Let's start saying: "Other-power and Jiriki / Self-power are the same". If Self doesn't exist, how can they be different! Consult Daisetz Suzuki's «Buddha of Infinite Light» and Hiroyuki Itsuki's «Tariki» and ask yourself whether the two words are still different to you.

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 63-6 Complicated?

Today's Tao

Plan complicated things while they are easy. (Ch.63)


You surely agree to this, don't you?

Then, let's go a step further.

Well.

It says:

"while they are easy".

When is it exactly?

It is before things are created.

That is to say, before your hologram is projected.

It is called "Bumo misho izen 父母未生以前" in Zen Buddhism. (☞See also Tao by Matsumoto 63a Work no work)

It literally means "before your father and mother were born", but is a synonym of Tao.

Please remember there is no time in Tao.

So, it means "right now".

Right now right here your life may seem complicated, but in fact it is easy.

It is your hologram you project.


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☞«Shinju Ten no Amijima» is an intriguing title. It is the Japanese title for  Masahiro Shinoda's film on the right. The original was written in the days of samurai. The author was Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. It was a puppet play about a tragedy of love. It is based on a true story that took place in an islet called Ami jima, which literally means Net Island. The genius of this Japanese Shakespeare immediately associated it with a famous line from Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching: "天網恢恢 [Ten mo kai kai] Heaven's net is vast". (Chapter 73) A man and a Yujo, which means a "play woman" literally, commit Shinju at Heaven's net Island. This is the meaning of the title.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 55-6 Male organ

Today's Tao

Although he doesn't know the intercourse of a male and a female yet, his male organ erects itself. (Ch.55)


A baby without intention or desire is in the state of Bumo Misho Izen 父母未生以前, which means "before the father and the mother are born".

The father, a male, meets the mother, a female in the valley, which is Tao.

The intercourse of a male and a female suggests the Yin Yang circle, which is the prayer wheel and the cycle of Tao's energy.

Your hologram will be projected in the cycle as a baby's male organ erects itself naturally.

Whether you are aware of it or not, the wheel called Life keeps on turning.

A baby doesn't know the mechanism.

Then, would you still like to know it?


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☞Hermann Hesse wrote «Siddhartha», which is one of the useful preparatory reading materials before you challenge oriental philosophies. He also wrote «Beneath the Wheel». What is the wheel to him? Is it his prayer wheel? It is nice to have a Tibetan prayer wheel at home. Every time you turn it, you will remember that your life is a prayer wheel and you have got nothing to worry about no matter how hard it appears.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 52-2 Mother of the world

Today's Tao

You should call it the mother of the world under the sky. (Ch.52)


The "beginning" is the mother of the hologram.

Tao is the mother of the world.

In Zen Buddhism, it is called Bumo misho izen 父母未生以前, which means "the state before the father and the mother are born".

Tao is the source of the constant creation of holograms.

Time and space are parameters to reconstruct information as a hologram in your "mind" (which is part of the hologram).


That's why Master Dogen says:

"Matsu mo toki nari. Take mo toki nari.

松も時なり。竹も時なり。

Pine trees are time. Bamboo trees are time, too."

(Uji 有時, «Shobogenzo»)


There is no time in Tao. Therefore, the beginning is the end.

Only the mother exists.

She is true You.


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☞I just want you to watch the fantastic performance by the dancers of Nederlands Dans Theatre. Their bodies and movements are simply beautiful. Their choreographer Jiri Kylian captures the sensuality of the Japanese story «Kaguya-hime». Yasunari Kawabata and Donald Keene translate it and transmit the devine libido of the moon. Interestingly, the title is translated as «The Moon Princess» in the sensual physical presentation and as «The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter» in the literary challenge in the English language.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 39-6 Hologram's birth

Today's Tao

Everything attained One and was born. (Ch.39)


This is one of the key sentences in Tao Te Ching.


Step 1 There is nothing. It is Tao the fundamental energy.

Step 2 A thing before its birth (=Bumo misho izen) gets Tao.

Step 3 The thing will be projected, be born, and become a hologram and catalyst.

Step 4 The hologram stimulates Tao the energy.

Step 5 Go back to the first step. There is nothing.

Step 6 More holograms will be created.


Tao emits Tao. The energy emits more energy. Nothing emits nothing. You emits you. They are saying the same thing.

This cycle is the reincarnation, the prayer wheel, the wheel of manifestation 法輪 [horin] or the Yin Yang circle.


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Don't mix the element of "self" with the idea of the Tao/hologram cycle before you fully accept it. Your own self does not create holograms, and is projected along with the rest of the world.


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-Let's not talk about taste here. Some works are too important to ignore. The photographer Nobuyoshi Araki tells his stories with photos. One wonders why Japan has lost things once so adorable to those who know about its literature and philosophy. Araki will tell you: "You ain't seen nothing yet". True geisha souls never disappear so easily.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 36-1 Stretch = Shrink

Today's Tao

If you want to shrink something, you must stretch it for a while. (Ch.36)


Let's think the other way round.

Don't concentrate on something if you really want to achieve it.

With Reverse Thinking, you can go back to the state before things are projected in your hologram.

In Zen Buddhism, the state is called Bumo misho izen 父母未生以前.

In this neutral state, your desire meets the hologram.

Stretch something, and you will see it shrinking.

This is Dark Depth Female 玄牝 [gen pi / gen pin] approach.


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-Japanese literature has other aspects than being artistic. Jiro Nitta shows an unbeaten track of Japanese adventure and historical novels.

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 22-14 Return it!

Today's Tao

Truly, he returns it completely. (Ch.22)


"Return", "go back", "twisted", and "complete".

What did Lao Tzu want to tell us with these words?

First, we "twist", or swap, the cause and the result. It is Reverse Thinking. The Yin Yang circle gives you some image.

Then, we can return our hologram to the state where it was projected.

In Taoism, the state is matriarchally called the mother.

In Zen Buddhism, it is called Bumo misho izen (Before Father and Mother are born).

They mean Tao, which can be also called Buddha, Zen, or Love.


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-Osamu Dazai's expressions in Japanese seem to be more difficult to translate into another language, compared to, for example, those of Yukio Mishima. Dazai's words have got rhythm. They are the animated souls of his ancestors. «No Longer Human» has a Japanese title «Ningen Shikkaku人間失格». It literally means "human" "disqualification". If you are qualified as a human, we cry out "Ningen Goukaku!"

Tao Te Ching Chapter 22-4 Before parents' birth

Today's Tao

Worn out therefore new. (Ch.22)


It is exactly the same as breaking the mirror in Zen. (☞See also Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 15 / Man who knows Tao)

If you want to be new, you should wear out your hologram.

Then, you can return to Tao, or Bumo misho izen 父母未生以前 in Zen.

Bumo misho izen means «Before Father and Mother are born».

It is a very important concept describing the state before holographic images are projected.

To "return" to the state, Reverse Thinking is useful.

Some people thank someone up there for letting them live.

With Reverse Thinking, you live in order to say: "Thank you".

Then, you are as new as a newborn baby whose father and mother have not yet been born.


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-Misora Hibari was a Judy Garland of Japan. On the left, "musume" means a daughter or a girl. "Tabigasa" literally means a Japanese straw hat for travelling. So, the song is about a young woman travelling alone. On the right, the kanji character for "Yawara" is the same one for Ju of Judo. Judo is "yawara no michi / the soft Tao".

Tao Te Ching Chapter 22-2 Bent

Today's Tao

Bent (like an inchworm) therefore straight. (Ch.22)


In Taoism, returning to Tao is important.

What does "returning" mean?

One can say that it means getting out of his hologram and going into the state of Tao, or Bumo misho izen 父母未生以前, in Zen.

Another can say that it means turning around the Yin Yang circle, which is equivalent to a Tibetan prayer wheel.

How can you return to Tao, then?

One of the answers is to use Reverse Thinking.

If you want to be straight, bend yourself.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 22


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-One of the biggest contributions to Japanese literature by Master Dogen is to have written a chapter of Hokke Ten Hokke 法華転法華 in Shobogenzo 正法眼蔵. It is a literary equivalent to the Tibetan prayer wheel. Please look at the five Kanji characters carefully. It is, in fact, two sets of the identical pair connected by the character 転 [ten], which means "to change / to turn". It is a visual presentation of the prayer wheel. Traditionally, the Japanese are awed by Kotodama 言霊, the spirits of words, in other words, the phonetical aspests of their expressions. Zen monks and their calligraphy changed the tendency a little.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-7 Stay empty

Today's Tao

The best way is to stay empty. (Ch.5)


To stay empty isn't to think nothing.

Can you really think nothing?

In Zen Buddhism, it is called "Bumo misho izen".

Literally, it means "before Father and Mother are born".

It is the state before things are created, or your hologram is projected (in the "brain").

It is Tao.

So, to stay empty means to stay with Tao.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 16-6 Stillness

Today's Tao

Going back to the root is called stillness. (Ch.16)


To return the root, which is Tao, is easy.

Use Reverse Thinking.

It is a simple technique.

All you have to do is to switch the cause and the result.

You can easily go back to the state of stillness, the state before the things are projected in your hologram.

Reaching the state is called Satori in Zen Buddhism.


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-The Japanese adore Jizo. He doesn't preach us. He doesn't impose us his dogma. He likes to be in the place which people don't pay attention to. But he is always there. He is there to help us when we really need help. For most Japanese, he doesn't belong to theoretical Buddhism. He is part of animism. Jizo is a good friend of all the kids like Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Pikachu, Yugi-o or Naruto.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 25-12 Return

Today's Tao

It's far away, so it's said to return. (Ch.25)


Tao is big.

It covers all.

Tao goes far away.

When it gets to the limit of existence, Tao goes back to the state before everything is created. (=Bumo misho izen)

"Return."

This is one of the most important concepts in Taoism.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 16-4 Go back

Today's Tao

I see them go back again. (Ch.16)


Holograms are illusions.

Nevertheless, they are truly precious because they are Tao's manifestations.

Every time we receive Tao the fundamental energy through holograms, it goes back to the state before they were created.

The state is called Bumo misho izen in Zen Buddhism.


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-While Ikkyu seemed more a poet thatn a Zen Buddhist, Ryokan was a Zen Buddhist and poet at the same time. It is well known that he adored the fleas and lice that inhabited his clothes. In the post-washlet Japan, it is hard to imagine a  religious poet like him in terms of hygiene level and selflessness.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 30-2 Tao likes to return

Today's Tao

This thing likes to return. (Ch.30)


Tao likes to return.

The world returns to the state before it is created.

In Zen Buddhism, this is called Bumo misho izen.

"Bumo misho izen" is an important expression.

But, unfortunately, it seems to be rarely used in English.


Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 30
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