Tao Te Ching Chapter 16-2 Guard stillness

Today's Tao

Guard stillness firmly. (Ch.16)


Let's decode this.

It means, "Do not act until it is really necessary".


Naoto Matsumoto adds:


Chuang Tzu's famous maxim «Do not move until you are forced to. 迫而後動»
--荘子　外篇　刻意第十五--

Let's repeat this sentence every time someone tells us we are lazy.

What's wrong with being lazy?


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-You can find Chuang Tzu's maxim for lazy guys in «the Outer Chapters», which might not have be written by the philosopher himself. Never mind. The Japanese have been respecting the book for more than a millennium. Let's make robots work while we chill out.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 17-6 No hurry

Today's Tao

No hurry. Don't say a word lightly. (Ch.17)


Let's decode this.

It means:

"Don't move until you are forced to."

You don't have to convince others.


Naoto Matsumoto adds:

感而後応
迫而後動
不得已而後起

（荘子　外篇　刻意　第十五）

Respond after you feel it.

Move after you are forced to.

Stand up after it is inevitable.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 9-5 Retire

Today's Tao

When your task is completed, you retire. (Ch.9)


Let's decode this.

It means:

You can play in your hologram.

But don't forget what it is.

It is a catalyst that stimulates you to emit the fundamental energy called Tao.


Naoto Matsumoto adds:

When you have achieved something, don't stick to the achievement.

If you do so, you are stuck in your hologram.

You just go away as if nothing has happened.


See also Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 9.

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

Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 18-3 Merciful "love"?

Today's Tao

Since six relations are not in harmony, we have children's filial duty and parent's merciful "love". (Ch.18)


When your family, like anything else, is in harmony, you don't need any duty or mercy.

Everything goes naturally.

When you think you are doing something for someone, the act is not spontaneous, which means it is false.

If you believe in Taoism and are one with Tao, you know how useless it is to do something for someone in your hologram.

When the word "love" comes up to your head, that act of love is no longer an act of love.

It has become something else.

Probably, it is an act of controlling someone, or, at least, that of interfering him.


Visit Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 18 / Taoism out of use.

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

Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 10-5 Mirror of Dark Depth

Today's Tao

Can you clean the mirror of Dark Depth? (Ch.10)


Let's decode this.

It means, "Keep off your hologram".


Zen Master Dogen says:

Polish a tile and make a mirror.


Naoto Matsumoto says:

In the old days it must have been very difficult to explain holography without using the word.

Dogen borrowed the word Genzo 眼蔵 (gen 眼 [eye], zo 蔵 [storage]).

I personally think that this is a wonderful metaphor to describe what a hologram in the mind is.

Some Buddhists use another beautiful metaphor of the dewdrops reflecting the moonlight.

When you polish your hologram, you can remember that you are always one with Tao.


Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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