Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-13 Love the world

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If you love the world as you love your body, you find the world inside you. (Ch.13)


Love the world.

Please stop looking for super human power or an altered state.

Loving and accepting the world as it is is hard enough, isn't it? (No, it is easy, in fact)

But, please try it.

Then, you will really experience the transformation of the world.

After all, it is your hologram, isn't it.

Love the world as you love yourself.

It's yours.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-12 Your body = World

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Therefore, if you act as if your body is the world, you can entrust yourself with the world. (Ch.13)


Treat the world as if it is the extension of your own mind and body.

Certainly it is an useful tool in life.

For the Occidental mind and the Orientals under too much Western influence, it is difficult to accept the concept that your own self does not exist.

Regarding the world as an extended part of your own self is a baby step towards the total acceptance of the concept.

Try not to influence the rest of the world. The "technique" is called Dark Depth Female.


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Favour and disgrace are like excitement. (Ch.13)


Is a two-dimensional girl better than a three-dimensional one?

Yes, to some modern Japanese boys.

Probably not just to modern ones, to ancient ones as well, like samurais.

In Edo period, which is an exceptionally peaceful 200 plus years in Japanese history, some samurais collected Ukiyo-e wood prints enthusiastically.

Beautiful girls in kimonos were drawn and printed by old masters in them.

Certainly, they are one of the predecessor of Manga girls.

Now the admiration of fictive beauty is inherited by modern Japanese girls as well, and it is expanding its horizon to the rest of the world.


To read the text of Today's Tao video, please check Excitement / Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-1. You will find the text there. The article was written some time ago, but its video was recorded recently. Thank you.

If you have any questions, I am more than happy to answer them.
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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-11 No body, no trouble

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If I don't have my body, I don't have any trouble. (Ch.13)


Please don't take it as if your troubles are as important as your body.

In Tao, it is completely the other way round.

Don't take your own self too seriously, and all your troubles will disappear.

Your thoughts and feelings are like clouds in the sky.

You don't have to feel responsible for them, do you?

So are your troubles.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-10 Trouble and body

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I have big trouble because I have my body. (Ch.13)


Love your trouble because it is part of you.

You project your trouble, and your trouble projects you.

Zen Master Dogen uses the expression "You are mountains, rivers, and lands".

We can say, "we are mountains, rivers, lands, clouds, flowers, our happiness, our contentment, and, of course, our trouble".

Without them, we do not exist.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-9 Trouble = Body?

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What does it mean by saying that big trouble is like your body? (Ch.13)


Big trouble is like your body?

Can you use your trouble like your body?

Well, the question is more like "Can you use your body at all?".

No one can control his intestines and heart as he likes, but they are there for him.

So is his big trouble.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-8 Like excitement

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This is called that favour and disgrace are like excitement. (Ch.13)


Favour and disgrace are the same in nature.

They exist to stimulate your emotion.

They are catalysts, or triggers.

Judgement is excitement.

It is a catalyst, too.

The world, the prayer wheel, your hologram; all of them are catalysts.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-7 Lose

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When you lose it, it excites you. (Ch.13)


When you lose something, how do you feel?

You feel negative?

Wait a minute.

There is neither positive nor negative.

Yin and Yang is the head and tail of the same coin.

Can you give me only the head side of a penny, please.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-6 Get

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When you get it, it excites you. (Ch.13)


When you get something, you may feel positive.

"Be positive!"

People say this so often.

But what do they mean by "positive"?

If we didn't have something negative, something positive couldn't exist!

Why don't we stop judging once and for all?

You don't have to be positive.

You don't have to be negative, either.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-5 Disgrace

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You regard disgrace as something bad. (Ch.13)


Judgement is one of the least wanted things in Taoism.

Simply, you don't need it.

Be like a baby.

A baby doesn't judge.

If you don't judge, "disgrace" doesn't exist.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-4 Favour

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You regard favour as something good. (Ch.13)


Let's decode this.

It means:

You judge favour as something good.

But good and bad don't exist in the world of Tao.


Naoto Matsumoto adds:


There is an old Japanese proverb with a Taoist origin (from «Huainanzi 淮南子»).

It is Sai ou ga Uma 塞翁が馬 [Sa Ong Ji Ma 塞翁之馬], or «Old Sai's horse».

Sai 塞 signifies a fortress. Probably he lived near a fortress on a border.


One day, old Sai lost his horse.

His neighbours came and said:

"Mr. Sai, what a bad luck, we are sorry for you".

Then he replied:

"You never know. It may bring us a good fortune".

Months later, the horse came back with a fleet steed.

His neighbours came and said:

"You were right, Mr. Sai. It brought you a good fortune".

Then, old Sai replied:

"You never know. It may bring us a bad fortune".

Years later, his family had more fine horses.

His son liked riding them.

He fell off and broke his thigh.

His neighbours came and said:

"We are sorry for you. You were right, Mr. Sai. It brought you a bad fortune".

Then, old Sai replied:

"You never know. It may bring us a good fortune".

A year later, war broke out, but his son was not drafted to fight because of his broken leg.

Old Sai and his son survived the war.


When a Japanese uses the expression "Sai ou ga Uma", he means «Joy and sorrow are today and tomorrow».

Well, one should not judge any. Right?


See Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 13 / Love your Trouble.

It has the chapter's entire English translation and Rapid Decoded.

Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-3 Favour and disgrace

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What does it mean by saying that favour and disgrace are like excitement? (Ch.13)


You think favour is good and disgrace bad.

But don't judge.

In Taoism, we don't need this kind of excitement.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-2 Big trouble

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Big trouble is like your body. (Ch.13)


Your body doesn't belong to you.

It is part of your hologram.

Your big trouble doesn't belong to you, either.

It is part of your hologram, too.

All of them belong to your hologram.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-1 Excitement

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Favour and disgrace are like excitement. (Ch.13)


If you don't judge, favour and disgrace are the same.

All they do is to excite you one way or another.

Lao Tzu sometimes asks you to think about things the other way round, that is to say, swap the cause and the result.

In stead of thinking favour and disgrace affect you, one can think that they exist in order to excite you.

Emotion is a form of energy. That's why we have some causes to make us emit the energy.


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