Don't keep it filled up video / Tao Te Ching Chapter 9-1

Today's Tao

You had better stop keeping it filled up. [Ch.9]


The photo shows the source of the hot spring in Kusatsu.

Any natural phenomenon is considered divine in Japan. So is the source.

Probably it is because of it that people throw coins in the pool. I don't know when and how this custom started.

It might have been started by those who copied that of Trevi Fountain in Rome. You never know.

Anyway, neither judgement nor criticism.

"Anything goes." That's the Onsen way!


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 9-6 Heaven's Tao

Today's Tao

That's Tao of heaven. (Ch.9)


Let's decode this.

It means:

The hologram is a manifestation of Tao the fundamental energy. You should cherish it through the world around you, which is your hologram.


Dogen says:

Life is just non-life. (Shoji, «Shobogenzo»)


See also Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 9 / Don't stay.

Read the chapter's entire English translation and Rapid Decoded there.

Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 9-5 Retire

Today's Tao

When your task is completed, you retire. (Ch.9)


Let's decode this.

It means:

You can play in your hologram.

But don't forget what it is.

It is a catalyst that stimulates you to emit the fundamental energy called Tao.


Naoto Matsumoto adds:

When you have achieved something, don't stick to the achievement.

If you do so, you are stuck in your hologram.

You just go away as if nothing has happened.


See also Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 9.

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

Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 9-4 Don't be haughty

Today's Tao

If you are haughty when you are rich and noble, you are asking for calamity. (Ch.9)


There is nothing wrong if you are rich.

It is fantastic if you are famous.

But the question is "Isn't it more difficult for you to accept that the world in front of you is a hologram, that is to say, an illusion, especially if you are rich and famous?"


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 9-3 No gold

Today's Tao

No one can protect gold and jade safely if they fill a hall. (Ch.9)


Remember everything you see is a hologram.

There is no point protecting it.

It is useless to keep it.

You can't protect it.

You don't have to do it, either.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Hologram. The chapter 5 in Tao by Matsumoto has a couple of interesting articles on holography.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 9-2 Don't be sharp

Today's Tao

If you hammer and sharpen it, you cannot keep it long. (Ch.9)


Don't be sharp.

Don't be smart.

Don't use your intelligence.

If you are sharp and brilliant, it is hard for you to accept all.

If you cannot accept all, you cannot be one with Tao.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 9-1 Don't keep it filled up

Today's Tao

You had better stop keeping it filled up. (Ch.9)


Don't be stuck in the world in front of you.

It is a hologram you create. That is to say, it is an illusion you create.

It is like the fuel tank in a car. If you keep it filled up, the car cannot run at all.

Let your world flow freely.


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