Tao Te Ching Chapter 3-6 No action

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This means that the sage refrains from acting. (Ch.3)


"Stand up and fight!"

"Fight for peace!"

"Don't give up! Stick to it!"

Da da, da da, don't give up dada.

Aren't we weak against all those shining mottoes of the 20th century?

While some violently fight in order to stick to peace, obviously Lao Tzu prefers doing nothing.

If you refuse to accept what it is, you will never be in peace.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 3-5 Neither intellect nor desire

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Always, he keeps the people without intellect or desire. (Ch.3)


If you have intellect, it is difficult to deny the existence of one and only objective world.

If you have desire, surely you want to influence the one and only objective world.

If you are wise, you should not do either.

Because you would be simply refusing to accept your hologram as it is.

We don't need either intellect nor desire to accept all.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 13-11 No body, no trouble

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If I don't have my body, I don't have any trouble. (Ch.13)


Please don't take it as if your troubles are as important as your body.

In Tao, it is completely the other way round.

Don't take your own self too seriously, and all your troubles will disappear.

Your thoughts and feelings are like clouds in the sky.

You don't have to feel responsible for them, do you?

So are your troubles.


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What are "people"? Video

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Therefore, in the sage's way to control the people, he empties the mind, fills the belly, weakens the will, and strengthen the bone. [Ch. 3]


For the text, please see What are "people"?.

And, if possible, enlarge the photo above and look at the round faces of the Jizos. Don't they look how all of us used to look like?


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No stimulation, in principle. Video

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If they don't look at what stimulates their desire, people's mind will stay calm. [Ch.3]


Please see No stimulation, in principle. for the text.

The photo above is a mass of Japanese fortune-telling sheets. You pay a small sum of money for the paper which tells your fortune.

If you are not happy about your future, you tie the piece of paper on a branch of a tree in the precinct of a shrine or a temple.

Thus, you leave your bad fortune behind and forget it. Everything is pragmatic in the country of a Nintendo. If you don't like the result, you push the "Reset" button.

Here, interestingly, we see the paper tied on the strings. It seems that the people of the temple got sick and tired of cleaning the mess on the trees and invented a better system.


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