Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-10 No desperate situation

Today's Tao

Why is it so? Because he doesn't have any desperate situation without any hope of survival. (Ch.50)


Why can't anything hurt you?

Because the situation you are in is a hologram you project.

No matter how desperate and hopeless it seems, you will survive.

Because the situation exists as a catalyst only to stimulate you.

Accept it as it is. Thank the situation for giving you a hard time and making you emit more love.

Then, you will never be stuck in life, which is your hologram.


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☞Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman try to get away from a series of desperate situations. The original is worth reading as well. The photo above is a Japanese translation of «Papillon». Why don't we revisit our childhood when adventure was more exterior than interior of one's self.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-9 No blade

Today's Tao

No weapon finds a place to insert its blade into. (Ch.50)


Why can't any weapon hurt you?

To answer this question, let's think about where weapons exist.

They exist in your hologram, which comes and goes as a catalyst to stimulate you.

Disasters and pains, and miracles and joys are similarly part of your hologram.

Weapons, disasters, and pains are miracles as well.

Everything exists inside you.

Therefore, no weapons can hurt you.


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☞Nintendo was just a manufacture of card games. These cards are called "Hanafuda", which literally means flower cards. I wish you could touch and see them now. They are a popular reminder of Japanese visual arts; Ukiyo-e and Zen calligraphy among others. The Japanese inherit our cultural heritage while playing with those cards. One day, a historian will discover an undeniable tie between Nintendo Game Watch and Zen, I guess.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-8 No tiger

Today's Tao

No tiger finds a place to place its claws at. (Ch.50)


One-horned water buffaloes and tigers are there for you.

It is you who decide whether you will be bothered or appreciate their presence.

Zen master Sozan Honjaku 曹山本寂 [Ts'ao-shan Pen-chi] told his disciple that when a mule looks at the well, the well looks at the mule. (Egenroku 会元録, Book 13)

Dogen wrote: "Not just that."

"The well looks at the well. The mule looks at the mule. A man looks at the man himself. A mountain looks at the mountain itself."

(Shoakumakusa 諸悪莫作, «Shobogenzo»)


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☞Some things have to be told whether the society accepts them or not. Some people have to have guts to tell them regardless of the risk of being ridiculed or even being prosecuted. Some truths are so simple and self-evident that people in the society do not want to accept them. Thank you, Mr Galileo. Thank you, Mr Pribram, for your holonomic brain model. Thank you, Mr Benveniste, for your homeopathic digital memory of water. Thank you, Ms Mctaggart, for telling us Galileo-like stories in your book «The Field». Please read the book. I can guarantee you that it will help you understand Tao and Zen better.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-7 No one-horned water buffalo

Today's Tao

No one-horned water buffalo finds a place to pitch its horn at. (Ch.50)


A: "Master Bonbon, I am scared something bad is gonna happen to me. Please help me."

B: "You are my best client. Donate all of your money, and you will be protected."

A: "But I have no money, Master Bonbon. Instead of paying money, I will meditate. Will I be saved?"

B: "Get out of here if you have no money."


No one in your hologram will be able to hurt you.

The world, which is your hologram, exists to stimulate you, not to hurt you.

You don't have to pay money or meditate.

You are always safe.


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☞Have you ever heard of "the frog in the well"? It often suggests "a person who doesn't know anything about the outside world". However, if you read the context where Chuang Tzu used it originally, you can see that it is not exactly the same as we interpret it. It is a beautiful metaphor of a hologram projected in our mind screen. You can find the expression in Chapter 17 / Autumn Water of the Outer Chapters. Not in the Inner Chapters, which are widely available.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-6 Excellent life care

Today's Tao

I hear that a person who takes care of his life excellently never meets with a one-horned water buffalo or a tiger while he travels in land. Nor does he wear armours and arms after he enters an army. (Ch.50)


The best life care is Tao.

Your life is part of the hologram you project.

You are able to learn how to "take care of" your life (=your hologram).

It's simple.

Doing nothing is the best way to treat your life.

Please remember that true You are Tao.

Don't worry.

You will never meet with any danger.

There is no danger in Tao.

So, you don't have to defend yourself.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-5 Thick of life

Today's Tao

Why is it so? Because they live the thick of life. (Ch.50)


Most people are obsessed with either living or the end of it.

Or, they think life is a constant suffering.

Why is it so?

Because they are too attached to life. They are stuck in their hologram.

"Leaving Life"

"Entering Tao"

"Being one with Tao"

"Satori"

They are saying the same thing.

Learn that life is a catalyst and hologram and live it while receiving and sending Love (=the fundamental energy Tao).


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☞Franz Kafka's hero needs to metamorphose into a bug. Soseki Natsume desperately needed some escape from his reality after he had fallen into depression in London, living in a tiny flat without tatami and spending an amount of money equivalent to one month's wages of an ordinary Japanese worker, for a ham sandwich. Soseki's way of "metamorphosis" is to be a cat. He wrote «I am a cat» and transformed himself into a successful novelist.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-4 Survival

Today's Tao

The life of a man moves and goes to a desperate situation without any hope of survival. There are also three in ten. (Ch.50)


Do you understand what Today's Tao sentence means?

Well, it means:

"30 percent of people tend to put themselves in a difficult situation."

Haven't you ever seen a dragonfly or a bee hitting itself on the window, not realizing that there is glass there.

According to Lao Tzu, 30 percent of people find their life (=their hologram) sort of "a desperate situation without any hope of survival".

But you don't because you know it is a catalyst and hologram.

Life simply stimulates you to emit more Love (=the fundamental energy Tao).


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-3 Non-life

Today's Tao

Men of non-life are three in ten. (Ch.50)


A: "I want to live forever. What should I do, Master Bonbon?"

B: "If you want to buy my elixir of life, you have to join our pyramid scheme."


You must not join any pyramid scheme to buy some elixir of immortality.

Lao Tzu says here that 30 percent of people are obsessed with the fear of leaving this world.

Don't worry.

Life is a hologram you project.

Once you accept that Self does not exist, you don't have to worry about the end of your own self any longer.


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☞In Zen Buddhism, they say: "Colors are justly nothing. Nothing is justly colors." It is highly metaphysical and abstract. Nevertheless, when a Japanese person, especially a Japanese man, pronounces the word "iro 色 / color" in Japanese, it often suggests something quite physical and rather carnal. Please look at "Jiki / Shiki" of Yukio Mishima's «Kinjiki 禁色 / Forbidden Colors» and "Shoku" of Ihara Saikaku's «Koshoku Ichidai Otoko 好色一代男 / The Life of an Amorous Man». They are the same Kanji / Chinese character "Iro 色 / color", which means libidinal desire in both contexts.

Watch Hinomoto Oniko project!

Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-2 Life

Today's Tao

Men of life are three in ten. (Ch.50)


30 percent of people are obsessed with "life", Lao Tzu said.

Compared to his time, the number has gone up considerably, I suppose.

It is about time we changed the tendency.

Your life is just a catalyst and hologram.

True You exist outside it.

In other words, your own feelings, thoughts and body come along with the sky, the sea, and the news on TV.

You don't own them.

Therefore, you don't have to suffer from them.


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☞Miyamoto Musashi, the swordsman. Here are some of his precepts. 1. I do not regret things. [ware koto ni oite kokai sezu]. 2. I respect Buddha and gods, but I do not rely on Buddha and gods. [busshin hakkishi, busshin wo tanomazu] 3. Think superficially about body. Think profoundly about life. [mi wo asaku omoi, yo wo fukaku omou]

Tao Te Ching Chapter 50-1 Life non-life

Today's Tao

Leave life and enter non-life. (Ch.50)


"Leave" your hologram and "enter" Tao.

Having said that, you don't have to do anything particular to do it.

First, your own self cannot leave life.

Master Dogen illustrates this with a good metaphor of a fish in the water in his Shobogenzo. (Genjokoan 現成公案)

Self cannot live outside your hologram.

Second, true You, which is Tao, are already in non-life.

Life is a hologram, which you project. True You are not part of it.

"Leave life and enter non-life" means "remember these".


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☞"Bushido, the way of Samurai, is leaving one's life, I have found." (Yamamoto Tsunetomo «Hagakure») "I do not regret things." (Miyamoto Musashi «Dokkodo»)