Tao Te Ching Chapter 77-12 Secret of superiority

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He doesn't want to show off his superiority. (Ch.77)


A: "Master Bonbon, I am better than others, right? I've just sent 1,000 holographic video game consoles to poor children in Japan."

B: "Shut up, idiot! Cash is always better than toys. If you had donated the same amount of cash to our organization, you could have been a 'chosen disciple of the week' instead of a generous idiot!"


Tell me honestly.

Would you like to be a mystic Taoist superior to the rest of the population?

Or, would you like to be a "chosen" Zen disciple selected by a mighty master?

If so, I'm afraid to tell you: "No, you cannot!".

Why?

Because everything is one.

It is impossible to distinguish one from another.

So, how can you be better than others!


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 77


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☞The two "Japanese" video game manufacturers, Sega and Taito, were not founded by Japanese. / Sega, which was called "Standard Games" at the moment of the company's birth. It was founded in Hawaii in 1940. Later, they changed the name to "Service and Games". The two initial alphabets of "Service" and "Games" were put together. It made Sega. Sega created Sonic the hedge hog. / Taito corporation was founded by a Russian. His name was Michael Kogan. He was born in Odessa, escaped the Russian Revolution and, after having lived in Manchuria and Tenshin (Tianjin), China, settled in Tokyo. In 1950, he founded Taito Yoko 太東洋行. Taito Corporation is known to have created Space Invader video games.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 73-3 Merit

Today's Tao

Of the two, one is merit and the other is demerit. (Ch.73)


A: "Master Bonbon, what is the merit of practicing your religion, Bonbonism you call?"

B: "If you don't believe Bonbonism, all the bad things are going to happen to you. If you don't want to live in misery, buy the latest Bonbonism meditation package. Now on sale."


Don't let the words "merit" and "demerit" mislead you.

They are both sides of a coin.

If you don't judge, they are the same part of one hologram.

We have got the one and only merit, which is to receive and emit Love (=Tao).


Lao Tzu says in Chapter 19:

"Destroy discernment. Throw away intellect. And people's benefit will be 100 times as much."

(☞See No discernment 19-1)


We don't need any dichotomy in Taoism.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 73


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 69-7 Love wins

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Therefore, if two facing armies look like each other, the one sending Love wins. (Ch.69)


What are "two facing armies"?

In Tao, everything is supposed to be one.

This is the source of all the problems: the two imaginary entities in the sole existence.

In your hologram, you have created the division between you and non-you, or Jiko 自己 yourself under your control and Tako 他己 yourself beyond your control.

You and non-you are the same hologram.

That's why Lao Tzu says:

"Two facing armies look like each other".

You and the rest of the world are not separated.

You just think they are.

What is the solution to this imaginary isolation?

Lao Tzu answers you:

"Send Love, and you will win against the isolation".


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 69


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☞«Tao Te Ching» the first line comparison (3) / "A way that can be walked is not The Way" On the left, «Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions)» translated by Jonathan Star. / "The Tâo that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tâo." On the right, «Tao Te Ching (Penguin Great Ideas)» translated with critical analysis by James Legge.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 42-8 Chuang Tzu's teachings

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There is something people teach. I teach it, too. (Ch.42)


I read the entire part of Chuang Tzu's writing concerning the birth of a hologram and Dark Depth Attainment.


At the very beginning, there is Nothing.

No existence. No names.

Where One rises up, there is One but it doesn't have a form yet.

Everything is born by getting this One.

This is called Attainment.

There are divisions in the One not yet formed.

Without intermission, without in-between space.

This is called Life.

The One flows and gives birth to things.

Things are completed and have discerning lines.

This is called Form.

Formed bodies keep the spirit.

Each of them has its rules.

This is called Nature.

When Nature is mastered, it goes back to the Attainment.

When the Attainment peaks, it is the same as the beginning.

Being the same means being void.

Being void means being big.

It unifies people's noisy speeches.

When they are unified, it is unified with heaven and earth.

This union is so perfect that they even know they are together.

It seems stupid.

It seems idiotic.

This is called Dark Depth Attainment.

It is the same as Big Natural Flow (=Tao's integration 大順).


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-I know it is quite voluminous. I know most of them were written by later hands. Nevertheless, I recommend that you read the complete works of «Chuang Tzu», or at least the Inner Chapters and the Outer Chapters. You will find Chuang Tzu's writing I quote here in the Outer Chapters. Besides, the story of «the frog in the well» is told in 17 - 4 of the Outer Chapters («Soji 荘子» by Osamu Kanaya 金谷治, 1995, Iwanami Bunko 岩波文庫, Iwanami Shoten 岩波書店).

Tao Te Ching Chapter 33-2 Learn Self

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Knowing himself is enlightenment. (Ch.33)


A man of wisdom, which we discussed yesterday (☞Learn people 33-1), knows that the people and the world is part of his hologram.

He still distinguishes his own self from the rest of the world.

Forget this discrimination.

This is the second step.

Your own self is part of the hologram like the rest of the world.

Other people and objects are the extended part of your own self.

Likewise, your own self is the extended part of the others.

Both exist to be accepted by true You the Tao.

If you know it, you know you are in the state of Satori the enlightenment.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 33


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 32-7 Stop

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Once they have got names, they should know how to stop. (Ch.32)


Are names bad?

Probably not.

We can better appreciate Tao's manifestation through each thing if it has a name.

But names come along with discernment.

Discernment leads you to judgement, right?

Isn't judgement the source of discontent?

One has to stop somewhere before he starts suffering from the lack of satisfaction.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 19-4 Taoist investment

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About these three things, the words don't seem to be enough. Therefore, I am forced to add something. (Ch.19)


In the last three episodes, we have been discussing; discernment and intellect; morality and rules; cleverness and profit.

Is Lao Tzu a Nostradamus of financial crises or emotional bankruptcies?

He doesn't care.

He doesn't wanna be a prophet.

He just wants to tell us that all of them are part of your hologram.

Stop looking for an objective world outside you, please.

But, if you really need Taoist investment tips, I will tell you about them secretly.

Ha, ha, ha, ha. (a Kyogen actor's laughter)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 19


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 15-10 Muddy water

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Mixed, as if he were muddy water. (Ch.15)


If you know Tao, you have no discrimination.

You are mixed, as mixed as muddy water.

Isn't it nice? If you know Tao, you are as confused as muddy water.

Hhhh. What a relief!

Muddy water is something very close to Dark Depth.

If you are confused and your head is mixed up like muddy water, congratulations!

You are one with Tao.

So, do not judge, especially, yourself.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 15


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 28-7 White

Today's Tao

Know its white. (Ch.28)


Please give me some object that is genuinely white.

A thing like this doesn't exist.

"Can I have something perfectly black, please?"

"Excuse me, sir, but we don't have anything like that."

«Smile»


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 28


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 14-8 Mixed and one

Today's Tao

They are mixed and one. (Ch.14)


All you can see are, in fact, mixed and one.

All of them are your hologram.

Tao is the energy that creates it.

Tao can be the world around you, the people around you, and even your own self.

Everything is one.

No discernment, please.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 14
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Tao Te Ching Chapter 18-2 Hypocrisy

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After man's intelligence and discrimination have appeared, we have great hypocrisy. (Ch.18)


Many people think they are intelligent.

They discriminate one from another and judge everything.

They are stuck in the dichotomy of good and evil.

They don't know how to handle the concept of evil, so they need hypocrisy.


Please visit Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 18 / Taoism out of use.

It also has the entire English translation of Tao Te Ching Chapter 18 and Rapid Decoded.

Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 19-1 No discernment

Today's Tao

Destroy discernment. Throw away intellect. And people's benefit will be 100 times as much. (Ch.19)


Lao Tzu is strongly against judgement and intellect.

If you don't discern good from evil, there will be no problem.

The world is already perfect.

Why do we have to change it for the sake of changing it?


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