Today's Tao
The sage doesn't accumulate. (Ch.81)
In Chapter 48, Lao Tzu says:
"When you study, you accumulate your knowledge everyday.
When you do Tao, you reduce everything every day." (☞See Reduce 48-1)
There are two important ways to look at reducing.
First, reduce your resistance. (☞See Tao Te Ching / Chapter 78 / Resistance)
Our raison d'être is to maximize the circulation of Tao's energy.
Accept everything as it is.
Be like water. (☞See Tao Te Ching / Chapter 8 / Be like water)
Use Dark Depth Female, 玄牝 [gen pi].
Second, reducing is increasing.
This is what Yin Yang circle is telling you.
In Chapter 36, Lao Tzu shows us some examples.
Stretch = Shrink
Weak = Strong
Decline = Prosperity
Give = Take
Why don't you use Reverse Thinking?
This is a good way to activate Dark Depth Female.
How?
The easiest example may be:
"Instead of thanking Tao for letting you live, live to thank Tao".
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Lao Tzu answers your question!
☞«Recommended Books 14» Laday Murasaki (Murasaki Shikibu)'s «The Tale of Genji
» is strongly recommended. No Japanese has ever written a better novel. Many aspiring writers, medieval or modern, tried hard to create a better one, but in vain. The public domain e-book on the left
has some selections from «The Tale of Genji». It is about a man who adored his mother, seduced his mother-in-law who looked exactly like his mother, and found a little girl who looked like his mother, raised and made her an ideal woman, and married her. The novel was written about 1000 A.D.. The e-book on the right is a full-length version translated by Royall Tyler. There is another version translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
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. With an introduction by Robert Wilkinson. / "The Tao is called the Great Mother empty yet inexhaustible," On the right, «Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)» translated by 
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. / "It blunts sharp edges, unravels their tangles, soften their blazing light, and blends one with their dust." On the right, «Tao Te Ching: An All-New Translation» translated by 
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. It is introduced by Burton Watson. / "In it all sharpness is blunted, All tangles untied, All glare tempered, All dust smoothed." On the right, «Tao Te Ching (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)» translated by 
», the expression above is not found in Chapter 4. Stephen Mitchell is the translator. / "With it, the sharp edges become smooth the twisted knots loosen the sun is softened by a cloud the dust settles into place" On the right, «Tao Te Ching: The New Translation from Tao Te Ching: The Definitive Edition (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions)» translated by 
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. / "This being so is profound, mysterious, and dark: The threshold to all secrets. (This translation seems to correspond to the Kanji / Chinese characters 同謂之玄玄之又玄衆妙之門.)" On the right, «Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching» translated by 
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», wrote «
», in which there is an american man who goes to India to obtain Truth. Strangely, this successful author of best-selling novels introduces readers to oriental philosophies in a very capitalist way.
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.
» accept their destinies. So did its author, Murasaki Shikibu
. When did the Japanese start suffering from the problem of Self? When did they start thinking that they could change their own destines, or that their egos were bigger than the force of nature? Typhoons, Tsunami, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes still teach us who we are. Read 
was a samurai, but it did not stop him from experimenting things in terms of physics. He is supposed to be the first Japanese man who fabricated an electric generator. If physics can fascinate a samurai, there's nothing wrong with Oriental philosophies fascinating an Occidental physicist. «
» is an easy guide to the concept of relativity.
