Tao by MATSUMOTO

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Today's Tao

Thanks to this emptiness, the wheel is useful. (Ch.11)

Is it just a coincidence? Or, is it an interpretation beyond what is really written?

In either case, it doesn't matter at all to me.

I find this sentence a fantastic metaphor of holography. (☞See the previous entry)

In this context, "emptiness" signifies Tao, and "the wheel" your hologram.

It is exactly like a Tibetan prayer wheel.

Thanks to Tao, your hologram is projected.

Thus, you can perceive the world.

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Thirty spokes share one hub. (Ch.11)

Again, this is a metaphor of holography.

Imagine a movie theatre where they project images 360 degrees around you.

You are at its centre like the hub.

The spokes are a beautiful metaphor for the beams of light projected by the projector.

Please compare this to Chuang Tzu's metaphor of the frog in the well. (☞See Tao by Matsumoto Chapter 5b What's a hologram)

It is nice, too.

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You had better stop keeping it filled up. (Ch.9)

Don't be stuck in the world in front of you.

It is a hologram you create. That is to say, it is an illusion you create.

It is like the fuel tank in a car. If you keep it filled up, the car cannot run at all.

Let your world flow freely.

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The highest good is like water. (Ch.8)

Lao Tzu says water is something close to Tao.

It doesn't resist. It accepts all. It stays at a lower place.

Water is everywhere when you think of water vapour.

So is Tao.

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Heaven is long. Earth is eternal. (Ch.7)

It is a key to understand Tao Te Ching better and more easily.

Every time you see "heaven", "earth" or "people", try to replace the word with "hologram".

For example, these sentences above can be read:

Your hologram is omnipresent and eternal.

That is to say, in Tao time and space don't exist.

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