Today's Tao
It is relaxing and plans well. (Ch.73)
Heaven's Tao never rushes you.
It relaxes you.
Even if your wish is not granted immediately, don't be annoyed.
"I wonder why Amitāba Buddha (=Amida Butsu 阿弥陀仏) keeps ignoring my wishes!"
Would you like to complain about Amida Buddha's unfair treatment against you?
Tao and Buddha's wisdom, which is your true wisdom, is far wiser than our superficial intelligence.
Do you believe in coincidence?
In Tao, there is no such a thing as a coincidence.
Amida Buddha's acts are completely planned and premeditated, you see?
Well, it is not exactly right since there is no time in Tao.
But if you think Amida Buddha is choosing the best thing for you every moment of your life, isn't it easier to accept your hologram as it is?
It is an excellent thought device.
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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 73
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»: Banana Yoshimoto. The other is a great Haiku poet who supposedly had a Ninja-like mission for the Shogun government while traveling the northern independent fiefdoms in Japan: Matsuo, Basho. His first name "Basho" means a banana plant in Japanese. He is the author of «
/ Oku no Hoso Michi». The book certainly inspired Edward Bond, and he wrote the play "
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». Both were written when arms were more or less considered a hindrance. The original «Hagakure» about 1716. More than 100 years had passed after the period of civil wars in Japan ended. Yukio Mishima narrowly "escaped" the draft just before the end of World War 2 because of some health reasons. He published «Hagakure Nyumon (The introduction to Hagakure)» in 1967 in Japan. «
» in 1968. More than twenty years had passed. It was just twelve years before the release of 
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was a 12th-century poet / Buddhist monk, probably born in the Kyoto area, and traveled the north of Japan twice. Osamu Dazai, the author of this modern classic «
/ Ningen Shikkaku», was born in the northern tip of Japan's main island, Honshu, and became a successful novelist and ladies' man in Tokyo.
/ Gorin no Sho». Musashi's sword is certainly Zen Master Dogen's Genzo 眼蔵, or the hologram. ☞If the sword is Zen, is Aikido science? It is a difficult question. But, at least, we have a Japanese gentleman who practices both at the highest levels. He is Tatsuo Kimura. He is one of the highest disciples of late Yukiyoshi Sagawa and a professor of mathematics at University of Tsukuba in Japan. He wrote «
». It is about the principles of Aikido.
is Ryunosuke Akutagawa's «
/ Yabu no Naka». Akutagawa also wrote a short story called «
». A kappa is a legendary bipedal semiaquatic creature. It is believed to be as intelligent as human beings, probably more. It has a dish-like body part situated on the top of the head, where it can keep water. As long as the part is wet, it can prolong the time outside the river. Kappa 河童 literally means a river kid. It is thought to adore cucumbers. That's why a sushi roll with a piece of cucumber is called "Kappa-maki".
/ Asakusa Kurenai-dan» and the other is Yasujiro Ozu's «
/ Tokyo monogatari». Both portray the beauty and cruelty of everyday life in Tokyo. The former was written before World War 2 and the latter was shot right after it. The buildings and fashions in Tokyo are no longer the same. The mentality of the people there changed, well, once. Once Tokyo was a symbol of the consumer society. After the two decades of sluggish economy, a new type of consumers is emerging. They are consumers who do not consume a lot. They are post-consumers. They appreciate non-material things more than material ones. They are ready to adore the friendship for survival in «The Scarlet Gang's of Asakusa» and the sensitivity towards person-to-person contacts in «Tokyo Story».
». At the time of writing, about the turn of the first millennium, the Japanese aristocratic society was relatively matriarchal. A wife lived with her mother while her husband visited her at her family's residence. The children were raised under the influence of the mother's family. On the other hand, the samurai society was more patriarchal, or male-dominant sort of. A man's love to another man was considered something pure and genuine whether it was platonic or not. Ihara, Saikaku's «
» portrays the love between a samurai and a samurai, a samurai and a boy, or a man and a monk; in short, the love between a human and a human.
» is too scanty. I want something with more detail!" "How about Zen Master Dogen's «
»?" "Oh, no, it's too bulky. Besides, it is too abstract. I can't use his teachings in life!" "Well, I've got a perfect book for you. It is neither too bulky nor scanty. It is relatively pragmatic." "What is that?" "«
». It you don't have much time, you can read only «
», but there are many interesting things to learn in the other chapters, too." "For example?" "Did you like the passage you read Tao by Matsumoto video blog 
» is «Forbidden Colors». This is the same as one of Yukio Mishima's novels. "Iro", which means color in Japanese, often signifies lust. Please look at the photo of the book on the left and use your imagination what kind of lust is forbidden and how much pleasure they get because of this very prohibition. Just click the publicity on the right and enjoy 
at the Amazon site. I am sure you have heard the beautiful melody composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, who acted in the film as a Japanese officer at a prison camp in Indonesia during World War 2.
», would be happy about the film «
». Probably yes. Thanks to Peter Greenaway, the classical collection of the medieval essays by an intelligent imperial female servant is now digitally immortalized in DVD. (☞See also