Tao Te Ching Chapter 79-3 Contract without payment

Today's Tao

That's why the sage takes the contract, but doesn't ask the person to pay. (Ch.79)


In Today's Tao sentence, "the contract" symbolizes the feelings and thoughts, particularly desire, in a hologram.

"The payment", the fulfillment of them.

Let's make a few things clear.


1. Your feelings and thoughts do not belong to you.

2. They are attached to the hologram.

3. You project the hologram, but don't control it. (☞See Inmo and No mind 49-10)


Now, we are ready to discuss desire.

Desire doesn't belong to you, so you don't have to feel ashamed whatever your desire is.

You should not judge.

Nevertheless, acting directly to fulfill the desire is another thing.

It is worse if you lament the failure of the fulfillment or hold a grudge.

It creates the mental short circuit and blocks the natural flow of Tao. (☞See Brambles 30-3)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 79


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☞«Tao Te Ching» Key word comparison (31) / - Dark Depth Female [genpi / xuan pin / hsuan pin] 玄牝 - 玄 [gen / xuan / hsuan] means Dark Depth. 牝 [pi (hin) / pin], Female. This is one of the most important words in Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Mr Michael P. Garofalo has done an excellent research and comparison of the various translations. (http://www.egreenway.com/qigong/vstccs2.htm) Thanks to him, we can see easily how they translate 谷神不死, 是謂玄牝 in Chapter 6 / Valley God. / "The Spirit of the perennial spring is said to be immortal, she is called the Mysterious One." On the left, «Tao Te Ching» translated by Dwight Goddard and Henri Borel. / "The Spirit of the Depths is immortal; it is called the Azure Heaven and the Mother Earth." by Frederic Balfour. On the right, «TAO TE CHING TAOISM ULTIMATE COLLECTION - 5 Expert Translations PLUS EXPLANATIONS for BEGINNERS and EVERYONE - For YOU to get EASY UNDERSTANDING of the Tao (also named Dao De Jing, Teh King, New Way)». The book on Kindle includes the translation by Frederic Balfour.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 66-4 Never heavy

Today's Tao

Therefore, the sage puts himself above people, but they don't find him heavy. (Ch.66)


今この三界は皆これ我が有なり

[ima kono sangai wa mina kore waga yu nari]

"Now these three worlds are certainly my own existence."

(Hoke kyo 法華経 / Lotus Sutra;  Sangaiyuishin 三界唯心, «Shobogenzo»)


Buddha declares loudly that the whole world belongs to him.

Buddha (=Love, =Tao) is true You.

So, his declaration is your declaration.

The whole world is your hologram.

(world = existence = hologram)

You project people.

You are above them, but they don't find you heavy.

They don't have to know that you are the creator.

(☞See Creator 4-4 and Creator of Creator 4-5)


[Note]
Why do they not have to know it? Because you create the mental short circuit. (☞See Brambles 30-3)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 66


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☞Lotus Sutra. In Japanese, it is called Hoke Kyo 法華経, which means "the sutra of the flowers of manifestation". You can see the book on Lotus Sutra and Dogen in tomorrow's entree.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 39-14 Lords & Kings = Masters

Today's Tao

If lords and kings were not masters, they might stumble and fall. (Ch.39)


Are you suffering from feelings?

Do you think someone else is dictating your life and the world?

No one but you can project your hologram.

In other words, you are the master of the world you project.

So, the world is perfect no matter how much you think otherwise.

"Lords and kings" here in Today's Tao sentence suggest your own self.

If your own self is against the idea, it will create a mental short-circuit and make your hologram "stumble and fall", unsustainable.

This is the cause of your painful feelings.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 39


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 38-2 The lowest attainment

Today's Tao

The lowest attainment is trying not to lose attainment. That's why there is no attainment. (Ch.38)


A: "Oh, my god, Master Bonbon. I'm losing my Satori. What can I do?"

B: "Fight and control yourself. Stick to your Satori."


Master Bonbon, you must be joking.

Don't be obsessed with Satori.

This is the worst attitude.

If you try to do something in order to attain Satori, you will never get it.

Just remember that you are already in the state of Satori or enlightenment.

You are looking outside in order to get what you have already got.

You see? This is a mental short circuit.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 38


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 36-8 Useful tool

Today's Tao

You must not show anyone the useful tool to govern the nation. (Ch.36)


"The useful tool" means Dark Depth Female 玄牝 [gen pi].

"The nation" suggests your hologram.

Therefore, you must not show anyone how you use Dark Depth Female in order to "control" your hologram.

Why can't you show that you are the one who "controls" your hologram?

Because it causes sort of a mental short circuit.

You are trying to construct and destruct the hologram at the same time.

Your own self has to play perfectly the role of a character there.

But, if you tell others that the world is a hologram, it's like an actor in a movie trying to convince other characters that it is a fictional world where they live.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 36


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 24-6 Boasting man

Today's Tao

A boasting man is never the best. (Ch.24)


Don't boast. Don't say you are the best.

All right. Conventional teachings say the same thing, but it is more subtle here.

You really have to know that you are the best because you are the creator of your hologram, in other words, the creator of the world.

What's going to happen if you declare:

"I am the creator of the universe"?

Well, you can imagine all sorts of difficulty in your life.

But, why difficulty?

Because this declaration is an act to influence others, that it to say, your hologram.

By boasting that you are the best, you are creating a short-circuit-like effect in your hologram.


Zen Master Dogen says:

In order to practice the heart of Bodhi (Bodai shin), you had better not wish that people will know you have made up your mind to do it and are practicing it. You should try not to let them know it. You must not tell them about it.

This is called "to double your Mayoi while you are in your Mayoi (=being lost)".

(Keiseisanshoku 谿声山色, «Shobogenzo»)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 24


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-Some questions. Can a Zen master be an artist? Can a baseball (or football) player be an artist? Can a chess master be an artist? The answers could vary. Then, how about these? Can an artist be a Zen master? Probably, possible. Can an artist be a baseball (or football) player? Probably no, unless his name is either Ichiro or Zidane. Can an artist be a chess master? Both of the two occupations are time-consuming, so probably no. When you read Kawabata's «The Master of Go», you may have an impression that it doesn't matter to the master of Go whether he will win or not. He seems to have wanted to create beauty on the Igo board.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 30-3 Brambles

Today's Tao

Where a division encamps, brambles will grow. (Ch.30)


It is not wise to intervene directly as some nations use military forces.

The world in front of you is your hologram projected in the mind.

If you act directly on it, you will create "brambles" in your brains.

This is a contradictory mental state trying to create and destroy your hologram at the same time.

It is a short circuit made in your mind.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 30
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