Showing posts with label chapter 41. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chapter 41. Show all posts

Monday, July 5, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 41-4 Born from nothing


Today's Tao

You are born from nothing. (Ch.41)


Your own "self" is born from Tao (=nothing).

That's why Tao is your mother. (☞See Eat mother 20-21)

Tao is the source of your own self along with other elements in the hologram.

The easiest way might be just thinking that "self" is an illusion.

If it is too outrageous to accept, Zen master Dogen will give you an idea:

[Isshu soban no jiko] 一珠走盤の自己 (Kokyo 古鏡, «Shobogenzo»).

It means:

"Self is like a ball running on the board."

In other words,

"Self is like a ball running on your hologram."


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 41


Tao answers your question!



-Akira Kurosawa's «Rashomon» is not the same as Ryunosuke Akutagawa's «Rashomon». The film's original is «Yabu no Naka / In the Grove». The original is interesting enough, but you cannot help admiring the creativity of Kurosawa and his staff. Besides, three cheers for Kurosawa's decision not to use the original title of the short story. "Rash-o-mon" sounds much nicer than the original where all three words end with a vowel. It might have been quite difficult for English and French speakers to pronounce "yaboo no knack car" while Italian and Spanish speakers are able to say both titles with no difficulty.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 41-3 Born from you


Today's Tao

Everything under the sky is born from you. (Ch.41)


What are things?

What is existence?

It is your own self.


Zen master Dogen says:

"You extend yourself and make you the world."

われを排列しおきて尽界とせり [ware o hairetsu shiokite jinkai to seri]

(Uji 有時 , «Shobogenzo»)


The master says clearly:

Time = Things = Self.


Your own self is the mother of the world.

For it projects the hologram of the world, including your own self.

Why including your own self?

Because the world IS your own self.

It is the projector and projected at the same time.

That's why there is no difference between your own self and the rest of the world.

That's why I ask you not to judge.

This is another Kanreisu (a bar / spring) of Zen and Tao.


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-Born from you 41-3
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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 41


Tao answers your question!



☞When the black rain falls, someone cries. Do you know even Godzilla cries? He sheds radioactive tears. He was just a lizard when human beings tested their nuclear bomb. Please read the last sequences of Masuji Ibuse's «Black Rain». When the black rain falls, a young woman cries. No, she doesn't cry. When one suffers from his profound injustice, tears do not come out. Instead, she faces her destiny with desperate sense of humor. Please laugh shedding tears for her. ☞[Note] According to the plot in the original "Gojira / Godzilla" released in 1954, Dr Kyohei Yamane thinks: "It was a gigantic animal of two million years ago, in the middle of the evolution from an aquatic reptile to a land mammal. A nuclear experiment woke it up".

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 41-2 Tao's means


Today's Tao

Being weak is Tao's means. (Ch.41)


Accept the world as it is.

We all know that's the best way.

Then, we wonder why we have got an unquenchable desire to change the world.

Why?

Change itself is nothing bad.

On the contrary, it is essential.

Holograms have to change.

Every time a hologram changes, every time the prayer wheel turns, Tao's energy returns to Tao.

The important thing is that you must not force the hologram to change.

That's why we have to be weak.

Avoiding any direct action on the world is Tao's effective means.

This attitude is called Dark Depth Female 玄牝 [gen pi].


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 41


Tao answers your question!



-What do I miss about lost Japan? Legendary Momoe Yamaguchi half naked in the «Izu Dancer» film? No, I don't think so. When I was big enough to go to a movie theatre and see the film, old Japan had already been lost. What Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata wrote in the original of the film was the class difference in Japan before World War 2. The post-war Japanese society could not allow a university student to give a generous tip to traveling dancers. Dancers were still despised by good housewives. Dancers travelled from a town to another still in 1970s. But by train or car. Students were no longer considered to belong to an upper class. It was almost impossible for a student to tip a dancer an amount of money big enough to surprise her, unless he went abroad and did it in a developing country.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 41-1 Tao's move


Today's Tao

Returning is Tao's move. (Ch.41)


Why are we not able to give a name to Tao?

Because Tao is not an object.

Tao is a movement.

Tao's movement is Tao. ("the movement of the movement" is the movement?)

The movement of nothingness is Tao.

What kind of movement is it?

It is a constant returning.

When you receive Tao, Tao returns to Tao.

When you emit Tao, Tao returns to Tao.

Zen masters' circle and Yin Yang circle express it.

Returning is rebirth.

This is the reincarnation without time.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 41


Tao answers your question!



-You may be interested in reading Mishima's works, but hesitate to do so because of his image of being an ultra right-winger. In these two books, he hardly talks about his nationalist dogma. Instead, he tells us about women and their passion of love. They are an ideal entrance gate to Mishima's literature. Especially, «The Sound of Waves» has been incarnated by legendary Japanese actresses; notably, Sayuri Yoshinaga and Momoe Yamaguchi. It is quite exceptional among Yukio Mishima's novels that the audience enjoy the story of the movie and the beauty of the actress without knowing the name of the author who wrote its original. Some are pleasantly surprised when they discover the name later on.