Tao Te Ching Chapter 58-4 Misfortune = Fortune

Today's Tao

Misfortune hides in fortune. (Ch.58)


I sincerely hope you have read or watched the video blog Favour 13-4 because the story of «Old Sai's horse» teaches us the Taoist attitude.

Now let's discuss why.


First.

What is Tao?

Tao is the constant change of the energy flow.

It needs to change.


Second.

To create and stimulate the change of the flow, we have holograms.


Third.

Tao creates holograms, and holograms stimulate Tao.

This is the Yin Yang cycle.


Fourth.

Fortune and misfortune are part of the hologram.

To maintain the cycle, fortune provokes misfortune, and vice versa.


The important thing is that all of them are one without time or space.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 58
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Tao Te Ching Chapter 58-3 Fortune = Misfortune

Today's Tao

Fortune leans on misfortune. (Ch.58)


Some people say:

"Fortune and misfortune are neighbors".

They are the two sides of the same coin.

There is a funny story about this fact of life.

Please read or watch the video blog Favour 13-4.

Sai ou ga Uma 塞翁が馬 [Sa Ong Ji Ma 塞翁之馬], which means «Old Sai's horse», is a Japanese proverb from the Chinese philosophical classic Enanji 淮南子 [Huainanzi].

This old man Sai always say "You never know" and he doesn't judge any.

Let's discuss the reason along with Tomorrow's sentence.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 58
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Tao Te Ching Chapter 30-9 Can't help it

Today's Tao

It's just a result. Say you couldn't help it. (Ch.30)


Please ask old Sai (Favour 13-4) if losing his horse is a good result or not.

Then, ask him if his son breaking the leg is a bad result or not.

His answer is always the same:

"You never know".

He is right because there is neither good nor bad.

One cannot help the result.

Thinking about another result hypothetically is a waste of energy.

We cannot help the result because it is the best result no matter how awful it seems.

Let's believe it.


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-Surely, you can translate the name of «Makura no Soshi» as "The Pillow Book". It is not linguistically wrong or immorally distorted. Not at all. The author, Sei Shonagon who was born more than one thousand years ago, might be quite happy to have this title with tongue in cheek. She must have been a cheeky intellectual maid in the imperial palace.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-4 Favour

Today's Tao

You regard favour as something good. (Ch.13)


Let's decode this.

It means:

You judge favour as something good.

But good and bad don't exist in the world of Tao.


Naoto Matsumoto adds:


There is an old Japanese proverb with a Taoist origin (from «Huainanzi 淮南子»).

It is Sai ou ga Uma 塞翁が馬 [Sa Ong Ji Ma 塞翁之馬], or «Old Sai's horse».

Sai 塞 signifies a fortress. Probably he lived near a fortress on a border.


One day, old Sai lost his horse.

His neighbours came and said:

"Mr. Sai, what a bad luck, we are sorry for you".

Then he replied:

"You never know. It may bring us a good fortune".

Months later, the horse came back with a fleet steed.

His neighbours came and said:

"You were right, Mr. Sai. It brought you a good fortune".

Then, old Sai replied:

"You never know. It may bring us a bad fortune".

Years later, his family had more fine horses.

His son liked riding them.

He fell off and broke his thigh.

His neighbours came and said:

"We are sorry for you. You were right, Mr. Sai. It brought you a bad fortune".

Then, old Sai replied:

"You never know. It may bring us a good fortune".

A year later, war broke out, but his son was not drafted to fight because of his broken leg.

Old Sai and his son survived the war.


When a Japanese uses the expression "Sai ou ga Uma", he means «Joy and sorrow are today and tomorrow».

Well, one should not judge any. Right?


See Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 13 / Love your Trouble.

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

Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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