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Friday, February 18, 2011

Tao Te Ching Chapter 64-11 Stick & Lose


Today's Tao

If you stick to it, you will lose it. (Ch.64)


Like yesterday's sentence, you can find the identical one in Chapter 29. (☞See If you stick to it 29-4)

When you stick to something, you are refusing change.

When you block the change, you lose Tao's energy.

Obsession is the shortcut to loss.

Especially the obsession to the concept of Self.


Zen Master Dogen kindly cautions:

"Those who are lost in Mayoi stick to (Self);

those who get Satori leave (Self)."

迷う者は之に執し、悟る者は之を離れる。

(«Gakudo yojin shu 学道用心集»)

(鎌田茂雄「正法眼蔵随聞記講話」第十一講より)


"Oh, my god. I've got my own self. I cannot leave it. My god. What can I do?"

Please do not panic.

Being lost in Mayoi is part of Satori.

Satori is another name of the hologram.

If you cannot help sticking to something, well, leave your feelings alone although it is not ideal,

and don't worry.


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-While fragile 64-3
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-Before existence 64-5
-In order 64-6
-Tree from a hair 64-7
-Nine-story tower 64-8
-A thousand league travel 64-9
-Do and Defeat 64-10
-Stick and Lose 64-11
-Defeat nothing 64-12
-Don't stick 64-13
-Before completed 64-14
-Careful end 64-15
-Desire no desire 64-16
-Rare coins 64-17
-Learn no learn 64-18
-Excess 64-19
-Transformation 64-20
-Don't dare 64-21
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64


Tao answers your question!



☞Morihei Ueshiba (1883 - 1969) was a Japanese martial artist. An Aikido master. Takeda Sokaku was his teacher. Later he worked with a Japanese religious leader, Onisaburo Deguchi, to found a utopian colony in Mongolia. ☞Shinran (1173 -1263) is the founder of Jodo Shin shu / Pure Land Shin school. Zen Master Dogen lived in Kyoto while Shinran was there although there is no record that proves the two ran across each other. Shinran's master was Honen. Yuien, one of Shinran's disciples, is supposed to be the author of «Tannisho».

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 56-11 Benefit?


Today's Tao

You cannot give benefit to it. (Ch.56)


Tao is not material.

It has nothing to do with benefit.

Let's make it clear.

All the material beings, including so-called benefit, belong to your hologram.

Tao does not belong to the hologram.

Tao manifests itself through the hologram.

Tao has nothing to do with benefit, neither its benefit nor your benefit.


Listen to Zen Master Dogen's caution:

"You don't practice Buddha's manifestation for your own self, not to mention, for your fame or benefit."

(«Gakudo yojin shu 学道用心集»)

夫れ仏法修行は尚自身のためにせず、況んや名聞利養のためにこれを修せんや (鎌田茂雄「正法眼蔵随聞記講話」第一講より)


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-Don't say 56-1
-One who says 56-2
-Block the openings 56-3
-Be dull 56-4
-Untangled 56-5
-Soft light 56-6
-Kanshiketsu / Like dust 56-7
-One with Dark Depth 56-8
-Closer to Tao 56-9
-Staying away? 56-10
-Benefit 56-11
-Harm? 56-12
-Ennoble it? 56-13
-Debase it? 56-14
-Noblest 56-15
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 56


Tao answers your question!



☞Kenzaburo Oe is a Nobel prize winner, and was a high school class mate and brother-in-law of late Juzo Itami, who directed «Tampopo» the Ramen Noodle Western among other successful and funny movies.