Tao Te Ching Chapter 71-4 Difficult = Not difficult

Today's Tao

Because he knows this difficulty is difficult, he has no difficulty. (Ch.71)


It is difficult to have difficulty.

That's what Lao Tzu is saying here.

The world is the hologram you project.

A seemingly difficult situation is a catalyst.

Every time you face so-called adversities, you should say "thank you, my hologram" because they are stimulating you.

"Thank you, my hologram."

These are magic words.

There is no difficulty in the world you project.

There are only opportunities to emit more Love (=the fundamental energy Tao).


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 71


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☞«Tao Te Ching» The first line comparison (11) / "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao." On the left, «A New Way of Thinking, A New Way of Being: Experiencing the Tao Te Ching» written by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer. / "A Way become Way isn't the perennial Way." On the right, «Tao Te Ching(Counterpoint)» translated by David Hinton.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 71-3 No difficulty

Today's Tao

The sage has no difficulty. (Ch.71)


A: "Master Bonbon, it is too difficult to attain Satori. I don't care how much it costs. Can I buy Satori?"

B: "Idiot! Of course, you have to go through plenty of difficulties and adversities before you buy Satori. But, you know, there is a shortcut. The price is negotiable."


No one has to go through difficulties before he gets what he wants.

As you know all you have to know, you have got all you have to have.

We discussed it yesterday. (☞See Radio and Knowing 71-2)

Trust the world you project (=your hologram).

"The sage" means you.

You have no difficulty unless you think it is difficult.

That's why Lao Tzu tells us:

"Do not judge".


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 71


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☞«Tao Te Ching» The first line comparison (10) / "Ways can be guided; they are not fixed ways." On the left, «Tao Te Ching on The Art of Harmony: The New Illustrated Edition of the Chinese Philosophical Masterpiece (The Art of Wisdom)» translated by Chad Hansen. / "The Tâo that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tâo.» On the right, «Tao Te Ching (Dover Thrift Editions)» translated by James Legge.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 71-2 Radio & Knowing

Today's Tao

Not to know "knowing" is difficult. (Ch.71)


Lao Tzu is saying that it is not difficult at all to learn what "knowing" is.

"Knowing" is part of a hologram, which Zen Buddhists call Inmo. (☞See Inmo and No mind 49-10)

Knowledge is a sort of information that you receive from "outside".

It is in the same way that a radio receiver receives a signal.

As no radio program belongs to its listener, we don't own knowledge.

"Knowing" is receiving.

We receive Love through knowledge.

Knowledge is like money in your bank account.

You draw it when you need it.

In other words, you know all you have to know.

If you don't know about something, it is because you don't have to know it.


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☞«Tao Te Ching» The first line comparison (9) / "The Way that can be told of is not an Unvarying Way:" On the left, «Tao Te Ching (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)» translated by Arthur Waley. / "The Way that ca be articulately described is not the Unchanging Way." On the right, «Tao Te Ching: An All-New Translation» translated by William Scott Wilson.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 71-1 Learn knowing nothing

Today's Tao

To know "not knowing" is the best. (Ch.71)


You must be a smart person.

Admit it!

You are intelligent, or at least intellectual because you are interested in Taoism and other Oriental philosophies.

You know you are much smarter than others, don't you?

If you are truly smart, of course you know you don't know anything.

Lao Tzu says here that the most knowledgeable person doesn't know anything.

Does it sound contradictory?

Oh, no. Not at all.

It is totally logical because the smartest person knows that knowledge is part of his hologram, which does not belong to him as the clouds in the sky don't.

He is aware that he knows nothing.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 71


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☞«Tao Te Ching» The first line comparison (8) / "One cannot cognize Tao only by speaking about It." On the left, «Lao Tse. Tao Te Ching». The edition by Dr. Vladimir Antonov. / "Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding." On the right, «The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu» translated by Brian Browne Walker.