Tao Te Ching Chapter 47-4 Accomplish with no act

Today's Tao

That's why the sage doesn't go but know, doesn't see but know, and doesn't act but accomplish. (Ch.47)


Forget national politics and international affairs.

You don't have to do anything in order to make the perfect world "better".

If you do nothing, everything comes about naturally.

If you are not happy about the world (=your hologram), it is you who has to change, not the world.

The bigger it looks, the smaller it is in your hologram.

The closer, the more important.

Who is the closest to you?


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☞You may not like Manga Japanese cartoons. If so, I am afraid to tell you that you are avoiding the easiest way to understand Japanese traditions and legends. Manga is a modern-day equivalent to story-telling by a grand-pa or grand-ma by the mantlepiece. Highly metaphysical concepts like reincarnation and soul are explained with friendly images and cute characters. Japanese kids will remain quite "Japanese" this way.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 47-3 Kensho Jobutsu / No Away

Today's Tao

The farther you go away from it, the less of it you know. (Ch.47)


Osamu Kanaya talks about Kensho Jobutsu 見性成仏 of Zen Buddhism in his Japanese translation of this chapter of Tao Te Ching. («Roshi», Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko, Kodansha, Tokyo)

"See one's nature and become Buddha." (=Kensho Jobutsu 見性成仏)

You are Buddha. You are Tao.

So, it is logical that "The farther you go away from" your own self, the less you learn about Tao and Buddha.

First, you learn that your own self and the rest of the world are part of the hologram. (1)

Then, your hologram will teach you what Tao and Buddha is. (2)


Naoto Matsumoto adds:

This exchange between (1) and (2) is precisely the cycle of Yin and Yang, Tao's cycle,  the prayer wheel, or the wheel of the manifestation (Horin 法輪).

That's why turning the wheel of the manifestation (Tenborin 転法輪) is interpreted as preaching, where the learning and the teaching of (1) and (2) take place simultaneously.

This is synonymous with receiving and sending Love.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 47-2 Not out of Self

Today's Tao

Without looking out of the window, you see Heaven's Tao. (Ch.47)


Although Tao is not visible, thank God, Heaven's Tao is.

"Heaven" means your hologram, which is the world.

"Heaven's Tao" means a manifestation of Tao.

"The window" suggests your own self, which is part of your hologram.

Therefore, Today's Tao sentence signifies:

"Without going out of your own self, you can see a manifestation of Tao".

You don't have to go into any altered state or anywhere.

Satori is "right here right now".


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 47-1 No outside

Today's Tao

Without getting out of the door, you know the world under the sky. (Ch.47)


Certainly, Lao Tzu didn't know what we do these days.

We don't have to go outdoor to see what is going on in the rest of the world.

We watch TV or videos on Internet.

Although it sounds contradictory, we have to stay at home to "know the world under the sky".

Exactly because of this we have to ask ourselves the question:

"Where are those things happening?".


Modern medicine may answer:

"Inside your brains. All the information has to be reconstructed there".


Taoism and Zen Buddhism may answer:

"The world exists inside your hologram, not outside it. So does your own self".


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☞"Mr. Dustin Hoffman, do you really agree with Lao Tzu? The old Chinese master thinks that Heave and Earth treat everything as straw dogs." The American actor may not, but Yukio Mishima's hero in «The Temple of Golden Pavilion» might. The young monk with speech defect might think Heaven and Earth and everyone on the planet treat him as a straw dog. Even the incredibly beautiful Golden Pavilion "looks at" him as a disposable straw dog, he would have thought. Now, it is his turn to look at it as a paper pavilion of origami, and sets fire to destroy its beauty. The novel is based on a true story.