Tao Te Ching Chapter 71-3 No difficulty

Today's Tao

The sage has no difficulty. (Ch.71)


A: "Master Bonbon, it is too difficult to attain Satori. I don't care how much it costs. Can I buy Satori?"

B: "Idiot! Of course, you have to go through plenty of difficulties and adversities before you buy Satori. But, you know, there is a shortcut. The price is negotiable."


No one has to go through difficulties before he gets what he wants.

As you know all you have to know, you have got all you have to have.

We discussed it yesterday. (☞See Radio and Knowing 71-2)

Trust the world you project (=your hologram).

"The sage" means you.

You have no difficulty unless you think it is difficult.

That's why Lao Tzu tells us:

"Do not judge".


«Related Articles»
-Learn knowing nothing 71-1
-Radio and Knowing 71-2
-No difficulty 71-3
-Difficult = Not difficult 71-4
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 71


Tao answers your question!



☞«Tao Te Ching» The first line comparison (10) / "Ways can be guided; they are not fixed ways." On the left, «Tao Te Ching on The Art of Harmony: The New Illustrated Edition of the Chinese Philosophical Masterpiece (The Art of Wisdom)» translated by Chad Hansen. / "The Tâo that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tâo.» On the right, «Tao Te Ching (Dover Thrift Editions)» translated by James Legge.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 68-7 Limit of space and time

Today's Tao

This is called matching the limit of space and time. (Ch.68)


Dark Depth Female 玄牝 [gen pi] is the attitude of lowering yourself and being submissive in order to be one with Tao, or to remember that true You are Tao.

By not competing, you can attain Tao easily.

It is called Dark Depth Attainment 玄徳 [gen toku].

Using Tariki 他力 / Other-power works well, too.

All of them are the same as matching the limit of space and time.

Space and time are parameters to interpret in-coming information and form a holographic image.

"Matching the limit of time and space" means "understanding that time and space exist only in the hologram".

The limit of time and space is your hologram.

Besides, it is worth mentioning that Zen Master Dogen implies the projection of a hologram with time and space is the true miracle. (Jinzu 神通, «Shobogenzo»)


«Related Articles»
-True samurai 68-1
-True warrior 68-2
-True winner 68-3
-Lower than people 68-4
-No competition 68-5
-Aikido and Tariki / Other people's power 68-6
-Limit of space and time 68-7
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 68


Tao answers your question!



☞In the old days, Japan was called Zipangu. This map does not belong to the period, but it will give you some taste of an adventure in the Middle Ages. ☞Pokemon and Picachu represent modern Zipangu's alchemy.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 68-5 No competition

Today's Tao

This is called attainment by no competition. (Ch.68)


Why does Lao Tzu ask you not to compete or fight?

Because competition and fight are forms of resistance.

They are refusal of acceptance.

First, you accept the world, which is your hologram.

Second, you are one with Tao, that is to say, you remember that true You are Tao and your own self is just part of the hologram.

Third, remembering You = Tao is the attainment of Tao. This is also called Dark Depth Attainment 玄徳 [gen toku].

Fourth, while accepting your hologram, you emit the fundamental energy Tao, which is True You or which you can call Love.

Fifth, Tao, or Love, is out there. Now you go back to the first step and accept it through the hologram.

We keep this cycle.


«Related Articles»
-True samurai 68-1
-True warrior 68-2
-True winner 68-3
-Lower than people 68-4
-No competition 68-5
-Aikido and Tariki / Other people's power 68-6
-Limit of space and time 68-7
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 68


Tao answers your question!



☞The company's name Lotte was named after Charlotte Sophie Henriette Buff, the heroine of Goethe's «The Sorrows of Young Werther». Now the company owns two baseball clubs in Chiba, Japan and Busan, South Korea, and sells «Koala no march / The march of Koalas», or Lotte Koala Cookie Chocolate, which is believed to be one of the sweets most sought-after by tourists. Is this the result of a never-ending fight and competition? No, it is the happy ending of a love for baseball and sweets. Our beloved Lotte is always "the sweetheart of your mouth" (or our champions at heart).

Tao Te Ching Chapter 65-9 Perfect integration

Today's Tao

After that, you will reach Tao's perfect integration. (Ch.65)


Let's review Tao's perfect integration, or Big Natural Flow 大順 [tai jun], step by step.


1. You abandon analysis and intelligence.

2. You accept all, that is, all of your hologram while emitting the fundamental energy Tao (=Love).

3. The hologram finishes its role as a catalyst.

4. The hologram, including your own self and other beings, "return" to Tao and gets "re-integrated".

5. Your own self doesn't exist any more. (You remember that your own self does not exist as an independent entity from the beginning.)


This is "your" perfect integration with Tao.

In other words, you have attained Dark Depth.

It is Dark Depth Attainment 玄徳 [gen toku].

Attention!

The moment a phase finishes, another one begins.

There is no end.

Besides, time doesn't exist in Tao.

The multiple phases take place simultaneously.

Then, what can you do really?

Don't worry.

That's why they say: "Do nothing".

Just remember that you are totally integrated with Tao all the time.


«Related Articles»
-Ignorant 65-1
-Too intelligent 65-2
-Harmful intelligence 65-3
-Not by intelligence 65-4
-Rules of Tao 65-5
-Miracle rule 65-6
-Miracle attainment 65-7
-Return to Tao 65-8
-Perfect integration 65-9
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 65


Tao answers your question!



☞Water never errs. Neither do you. All you need is a bit more confidence. Ask water for some help.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 65-7 Miracle Attainment

Today's Tao

Dark Depth Attainment is deep and far! (Ch.65)


Dark Depth Attainment is everyday life.

It is nothing magical.

That's exactly why it is deep and far.

Dark Depth, which is Tao, reaches the deepest bottom, the farthest place, and everywhere.

Every moment of life is a miracle.

Your hologram is the miracle.


Zen Master Dogen would say:

"If it is not a painted rice-cake, you cannot eat it."

(☞See Painted rice-cake / Empty granary 53-5 A painted rice-cake: 画餅 [gabyo / gabei])


If it is not a miracle, we cannot eat it.

Eating food is a miracle.

Going to the bathroom is a miracle.

Your body is a hologram and miracle.

It is the closest manifestation of Buddha's love.

That's why Dogen insists on keeping our bodies clean. (Senjo 洗浄 and Senmen 洗面, «Shobogenzo»)


«Related Articles»
-Ignorant 65-1
-Too intelligent 65-2
-Harmful intelligence 65-3
-Not by intelligence 65-4
-Rules of Tao 65-5
-Miracle rule 65-6
-Miracle attainment 65-7
-Return to Tao 65-8
-Perfect integration 65-9
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 65


Tao answers your question!



☞Masaru Emoto is an advocated of water's healing power. Water is a miracle, of course, because everything in our life is a miracle. Everything is projected in our hologram. Certainly, all the miracles are projected in our mind. If you need a particular help from water's memory, don't ignore Emoto's works.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 65-6 Miracle rule

Today's Tao

Knowing these rules is called Dark Depth Attainment. (Ch.65)


A: "Master Bonbon, I wanna know the rules of magic Tao. 'Dark Deep Attachment', you call?"

B: "Dark Depth Attainment, idiot! Gentoku the Dark Depth Attainment! This oriental mystic, magical, enigmatic power rules the world."


Master Bonbon, stop pretending to be an exotic mystic. You are fooling yourself.

Besides, Dark Depth Attainment is not the attainment of a magical power.

Or rather, everyday life is a miracle if you are looking for one.


Zen Master Dogen expresses it as:

"Miracle is the tea and rice of a Buddhist".

神通は仏家の茶飯なり

(Jinzu 神通, «Shobogenzo»)


Everything that takes place in your hologram is a miracle.

Therefore, all the stories about miracle are true because you are the one who projects them.

Forget your intelligence.

Then, you will see that every moment is a miracle.

This is the rule of miracle.


«Related Articles»
-Ignorant 65-1
-Too intelligent 65-2
-Harmful intelligence 65-3
-Not by intelligence 65-4
-Rules of Tao 65-5
-Miracle rule 65-6
-Miracle attainment 65-7
-Return to Tao 65-8
-Perfect integration 65-9
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 65


Tao answers your question!



☞We have two famous artists called "Banana" in Japan. One is the author of «Kitchen»: Banana Yoshimoto. The other is a great Haiku poet who supposedly had a Ninja-like mission for the Shogun government while traveling the northern independent fiefdoms in Japan: Matsuo, Basho. His first name "Basho" means a banana plant in Japanese. He is the author of «The Narrow Road to the Deep North / Oku no Hoso Michi». The book certainly inspired Edward Bond, and he wrote the play "Narrow Road to the Deep North".

Tao Te Ching Chapter 60-6 Returns to each other

Today's Tao

Hence, the attainment returns to each other. (Ch.60)


There are two key concepts of Taoism here.

One is "each other" and the other is "return".

"Each other" suggests the two elements: Tao and a hologram, or the creator and the created, which can be regarded as "the stimulated and the stimulating".

"Return" is the principle of the Tao / hologram cycle.

Tao creates a hologram (=the world).

The hologram stimulates Tao.

The hologram returns to Tao.

Tao creates another hologram.

Please remember.

True You are Tao.

Therefore, you project one world.

The world stimulates you.

You accept the world with love (=Tao).

You project another world with more love.


«Related Articles»
-Boil fish 60-1
-Demons are not gods 60-2
-Gods hurt no people 60-3
-Sage hurts no people 60-4
-None hurt 60-5
-Returns to each other 60-6
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 60


Tao answers your question!



☞Take off your mask, Japan! You no longer have to pretend as a modern industrialized county! Everyone knows that you have been living in the two decades of recession. Kunio Yanagita's works tell us about the facts the Japanese hesitate to admit. Shigeru Mizuki's manga «Gegege no Kitaro» will show you the adorable superstitions lying at the bottom of the Japanese collective psyche.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 59-4 Repeat Attainment

Today's Tao

Repeat and accumulate the attainment, and you can beat any. (Ch.59)


"Repeat" your Dark Depth Attainment.

That means: "Don't forget that true You are Tao".

Is it difficult?

You forget it once in a while, right?

Is there any method to remember it?

Yes, there is.

Just do nothing.

You may want to ask me what "do nothing" means, right?

You don't have to do anything while accepting and loving the world as it is.

You can be aware that you are turning the Tao/hologram cycle (=the prayer wheel, =Yin Yang circle).

By turning it, you are sustaining Tao itself.

Of course, you can beat any because you are the one who projects it in your holographic world.

You are its master.

So, don't judge.


«Related Articles»
-Don't waste 59-1
-Return early 59-2
-Return and Repeat 59-3
-Repeat Attainment 59-4
-Cycle's end 59-5
-Never-ending cycle 59-6
-Forever 59-7
-Live eternally 59-8
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 59


Tao answers your question!



☞When you talk about Zen, you don't have to use the word. Nevertheless, when you talk about something else, the word Zen can help you sometimes. In «Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance», Robert M. Pirsig tells us about the father/son relationship and the man/nature tie. On the other hand, in «Big Wednesday», the story tells us about life, which is sometimes synonymous to Zen.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 59-3 Return & Repeat

Today's Tao

Returning early is said to be repeating and accumulating the attainment. (Ch.59)


Let's make it clear.


Attaining Satori
=
Attaining Tao
=
Attaining Dark Depth
=
Doing nothing
=
Accepting all
=
Sending Love
=
Turning the prayer wheel
=
Remembering that true You are Tao


Returning early to Tao
=
Repeating the attainment
=
Accumulating the attainment
=
Remembering that you are sustaining Tao's cycle by receiving and emitting the energy Tao.


Do you remember there is no time in Tao?

If you do it once, it is the same as repeating it.


«Related Articles»
-Don't waste 59-1
-Return early 59-2
-Return and Repeat 59-3
-Repeat Attainment 59-4
-Cycle's end 59-5
-Never-ending cycle 59-6
-Forever 59-7
-Live eternally 59-8
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 59


Tao answers your question!



☞Exploring Japanese literature is never easy. The cultural gap used to be insurmountable between where you are and where geisha and samurai lived. Besides, there is a question of translation unless you are fluent in Japanese. How can you translate a Kotodama (=the spirit of a word) based on and developed from onomatopoeia into an abstract concept! In this sense, Yukio Mishima's works are a good and accessible entrance gate to Japanese literature since the author is supposed to have detested the dependence on onomatopoetic expressions.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 55-1 Inner attainment

Today's Tao

One who richly has inner attainment can be compared with a baby. (Ch.55)


Don't try to look for Tao's attainment somewhere else.

You've already got it inside you.


Zen Master Ikkyu wrote a Waka poem about it.


Sono mama ni

Umare nagara no kokoro koso

Negawazu totemo hotoke narubeshi

そのままに

生まれながらの心こそ

ねがはずとても仏なるべし

As it is,

The very pure mind of a new-born

Is Buddha, whether you wish it or not.

(☞See another translation in Tao by Matsumoto / No Numbers.)


Be like a baby.


«Related Articles»
-Inner attainment 55-1
-No stings 55-2
-No attack 55-3
-No hitting 55-4
-Soft sinew 55-5
-Male organ 55-6
-Virility 55-7
-Su Dongpo / No husky voice 55-8
-Peak of harmony 55-9
-Know harmony? 55-10
-Constant enlightenment 55-11
-No increased life 55-12
-Takuan / Mind and Ki 55-13
-Strong = Old 55-14
-Anti-Tao 55-15
-No early end 55-16
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 55


Tao answers your question!



☞Osamu Dazai had been underrated outside Japan until recently. Yukio Mishima and he detested each other. Isn't it a reason good enough to read Dazai's works. «No Longer Human» is undoubtedly a masterpiece in Japanese literature. Saigyo, a 12th-century Japanese poet, is another underrated artist outside his own country. Like Basho, he traveled extensively. Unlike the Haiku master, he financed his travels out of his own pocket.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-8 World

Today's Tao

Learn it in the world under the sky, and its attainment is omnipresent. (Ch.54)


This sentence summarizes the paragraph.

The world is your hologram.

Learn Tao in the hologram.

In other words, receive Tao through the hologram.

This is Tao's attainment.


Zen master Dogen looks at this from another point of view:

"The so-called light of Buddha is ten nooks and crannies of the whole world".

いわゆる仏祖の光明は尽十方界なり

(Komyo 光明, «Shobogenzo»)


At any part of this world, in every sphere of your hologram, you are seeing Buddha's light, which is Love, which is Tao.

It exists everywhere, waiting to be received.


«Related Articles»
-Well built 54-1
-Embrace 54-2
-Descendants 54-3
-Body 54-4
-Family 54-5
-Village 54-6
-Country 54-7
-World 54-8
-See the body 54-9
-See the family 54-10
-See the village 54-11
-Bodhidharma from the West / See the country 54-12
-Jin juppo kai / See the world 54-13
-Why telepathy? 54-14
-Because of Satori 54-15
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 54


Tao answers your question!



☞There are some cities you want to visit at least once in your life time: Paris, Venice, and so on. I don't know if Kyoto belongs to this category, but it is worth visiting a real Zen garden in Ryoan-ji temple at lease once in our life time. Yasunari Kawabata's «The Old Capital» is an informative reading material although it was written as a novel. Some suspect that the author's intention was not creating a dramatical catharsis but recording as many ceremonies and rituals in Kyoto as possible. The beautiful twin sisters guide the town and country of Japan's old capital.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-7 Country

Today's Tao

Learn it in the country, and its attainment is rich. (Ch.54)


Love your country no matter what its state is.

Don't criticise politicians.

Accept people in the media as they are.

If you get annoyed, you create unnecessary resistance and waste your energy.

"The country" is much smaller than the TV set next to you.

It is just a backdrop of your hologram.

It is not wise to cut the "rich" flow of Tao's energy by getting upset.

If you don't like what is going on in "the country", be like Nikko's three monkeys.

See nothing.

Say nothing.

Hear nothing.


«Related Articles»
-Well built 54-1
-Embrace 54-2
-Descendants 54-3
-Body 54-4
-Family 54-5
-Village 54-6
-Country 54-7
-World 54-8
-See the body 54-9
-See the family 54-10
-See the village 54-11
-Bodhidharma from the West / See the country 54-12
-Jin juppo kai / See the world 54-13
-Why telepathy? 54-14
-Because of Satori 54-15
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 54
-State filth 78-8 That's why the sage says, "Those who accept the filth of the country are called the master of the state".


Tao answers your question!



☞What is a country? To some, it is what you fight for. To others, it is what you wish might protect you. Whichever it is, these two books are about their countries. Although geographically they occupy the same place, the authors seem not to talk about the same one. «The Taiheiki» was written in the late 14th century and «Sun and Steel» by Yukio Mishima in the late 20th century.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-6 Village

Today's Tao

Learn it in the village, and its attainment lasts. (Ch.54)


Love your village.

That is to say, love everything surrounding you.

Now, we know Lao Tzu's teachings here.

We start accepting and loving our own self first, and gradually expand the zone of love and acceptance.

This is one way to attain Tao.

Of course, you can accept and love all, at once.

In either way, the conclusion is the same.

Accept your hologram as a catalyst and keep Tao's energy cycling.

Remember?

Tao has no time.

So, if you do this once, Tao's cycle lasts forever.


«Related Articles»
-Well built 54-1
-Embrace 54-2
-Descendants 54-3
-Body 54-4
-Family 54-5
-Village 54-6
-Country 54-7
-World 54-8
-See the body 54-9
-See the family 54-10
-See the village 54-11
-Bodhidharma from the West / See the country 54-12
-Jin juppo kai / See the world 54-13
-Why telepathy? 54-14
-Because of Satori 54-15
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 54


Tao answers your question!



☞Oda Nobunaga was a hero, a man with innovative ideas in economy and warfare. He was one of the first Japanese tycoons who understood the importance of firearms and, consequently, the money to buy them. He abolished tax in his territory to let merchants flourish and to get the information about other tycoons. Any Japanese kid in the 20th century might have thought of being a Nobunaga. In 1983, thanks to Koei Corp., it became possible. Imagine how epoch-making it was. You don't have to sit outside history any longer. Now you are able to change it.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-5 Family

Today's Tao

Learn it in the family, and its attainment is abundant. (Ch.54)


Love your body and mind, first.

Then, love your friends and family.

But, don't be fooled by the words; body, mind, friends, and family.

They are all part of your hologram, not separate or independent entities.

Love your hologram.

Accept your own self and people close to you as they are.

Then, you can re-circulate Tao's energy.

The world in front of you is abundant of this fundamental energy whatever you call it.


«Related Articles»
-Well built 54-1
-Embrace 54-2
-Descendants 54-3
-Body 54-4
-Family 54-5
-Village 54-6
-Country 54-7
-World 54-8
-See the body 54-9
-See the family 54-10
-See the village 54-11
-Bodhidharma from the West / See the country 54-12
-Jin juppo kai / See the world 54-13
-Why telepathy? 54-14
-Because of Satori 54-15
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 54


Tao answers your question!



☞Izumi Kyoka, another great personality from Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, along with Kitaro Nishida and Daisetz Suzuki. If you like Edgar Alan Poe, it is worth checking Kyoka's works. Thousands of miles apart and in the two completely different languages, but somehow you can see the same sensitivity towards words and the intangible world. Their love to something supernatural was quite natural to them.☞In our common understandings, a Yama Uba is not supposed to be so beautiful. Of course, there is nothing wrong with being beautiful.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-4 Body

Today's Tao

Learn it in the body, and its attainment is true. (Ch.54)


This paragraph is a kanreisu (a bar / spring) to understand Tao and Zen.

Let's remember the mechanism of the holograms and use Reverse Thinking.


Body is bigger than Family.

Family is bigger than Village.

Village is bigger than Country.


First, love your body.

This is the best and true attainment of Tao.


Second, love your family.

The closer they are to you, the more important they are.

What they say are catalysts for you, in other words, Tao's messages.


Third, love the environment you are living in right now.


In the end, love the world in general.

Don't get annoyed by what the media tell you.


«Related Articles»
-Well built 54-1
-Embrace 54-2
-Descendants 54-3
-Body 54-4
-Family 54-5
-Village 54-6
-Country 54-7
-World 54-8
-See the body 54-9
-See the family 54-10
-See the village 54-11
-Bodhidharma from the West / See the country 54-12
-Jin juppo kai / See the world 54-13
-Why telepathy? 54-14
-Because of Satori 54-15
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 54


Tao answers your question!



☞The floating world, Uki-yo in Japanese, is the way they look at life. That's where geisha girls used to dwell and yakuza men were heroes. Ukiyo-e are called Japanese prints, but the word means the pictures of the floating world. Life is ephemeral. Enjoy it while you can. Tatoo, Irezumi 刺青. Or you might want to pronounce the kanji characters Shisei as novelist Junichiro Tanizaki named one of his first successful short stories. This could be a distant memory of the time when some of our ancestors lived in Southern Pacific islands.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 52-3 Attain the mother

Today's Tao

If you have already attained its mother, you know its child. (Ch.52)


Mother = Tao

Child = Hologram


"If you have already attained" Tao, what's gonna happen to you?

You will learn that true You are Tao and what you see is a hologram and catalyst to have you emit more of the fundamental energy Tao.

True you emits true you.

In other words, Tao emits Tao.

Life, the world, and Self among others are catalysts to stimulate the cycle.

The attainment of the mother, or the attainment of Tao, that is to say, Satori is to be part of it, which you already are.

Therefore, you don't seek Satori.


«Related Articles»
-Constant "beginning" 52-1
-Mother of the world 52-2
-Attain the mother 52-3
-Defend the mother 52-4
-Closed holes 52-5
-Opened holes 52-6
-See the small 52-7
-Strength 52-8
-The light 52-9
-Enlightenment 52-10
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 52


Tao answers your question!



☞A Rashomon meets another Rashomon. The original of Akira Kurosawa's «Rashomon» does not have the same title. The original is «In a Bamboo grove / Yabu no Naka». If you look at them from the point of view of Zen and Tao, it is interesting because they seem to be explaining the non-existence of the one and only objective world.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 51-12 Dark Depth Attainment

Today's Tao

It is called the attainment of Dark Depth. (Ch.51)


It is called Dark Depth Attainment.

Let's review Dark Depth Attainment.


1. You give birth to the world, which is your hologram. But you do not possess it.

2. Let it work by itself. Don't be attached to its outcome.

3. Remember that you are Tao. Nevertheless, do not dare try to control your hologram.


A useful tip.

To attain Dark Depth, compose your English sentence, always using "one" as its subject, instead of "he", "she", "you", or "I".


«Related Articles»
-Your birth 51-1
-Attainment 51-2
-They form you 51-3
-Vessel = Hologram 51-4
-Respect Tao 51-5
-Honor Attainment 51-6
-By itself 51-7
-Character 51-8
-Possession 51-9
-Don't rely 51-10
-No subject 51-11
-Dark Depth Attainment 51-12
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 51


Tao answers your question!



☞In Japanese «I Ching» is called "Eki kyo 易経". The book was brought to Japan in the fifth century. Written in the eighth century, «Kojiki» is the oldest history book in Japan. The title means "the book of old matters". It contains fascinating legends such as the creation of the islands by a goddess and her brother (Izanami and Izanagi), the first arousing dance by a Japanese goddess (Ame no Uzume no Mikoto), and the battle against a monster with eight tails (Yamata no Orochi).

Tao Te Ching Chapter 51-6 Honor Attainment

Today's Tao

The respect to Tao, the honour to the attainment. (Ch.51)


Respecting Tao is one thing.

Honoring your own ability to attain Tao is another.

We have a tendency to doubt it.

"Not yet! I am not ready. I have to meditate more to comprehend Zen. I must study more to understand Tao", say many people.

You don't have to do anything to participate in the process of recycling Tao's energy.

Give yourself more credit!

You appreciate the fact that you are alive, right?

Well, you are emitting the energy now.

It's much better if you can live your life in order to thank someone.

Gratitude is one of the easiest ways of loving.


«Related Articles»
-Your birth 51-1
-Attainment 51-2
-They form you 51-3
-Vessel = Hologram 51-4
-Respect Tao 51-5
-Honor Attainment 51-6
-By itself 51-7
-Character 51-8
-Possession 51-9
-Don't rely 51-10
-No subject 51-11
-Dark Depth Attainment 51-12
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 51


Tao answers your question!



☞Tatsuo Kimura on the left is the author of «Transparent Power 透明な力». He is an Aikido budoka of Daito-ryu and one of the highest disciples of late Yukiyoshi Sagawa. Some believe that Sagawa is the greatest budoka ever lived in Japan. Tatsuo Kimura on the right is a mathematician of the highest degree and work with Reimann's zeta function and Fournier Transforms. Are they the same individual? Yes, they are. If you are scientifically skeptical about Aikido 合気道, ask this gifted man.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 51-5 Respect Tao

Today's Tao

That's why everything never fails to respect Tao and look up to the attainment. (Ch.51)


Everything in the world, which is your hologram, is a manifestation of Tao.

Why don't we think that everything has got a seed of Tao no matter how it looks on its surface.

Tao's attainment is to accept the seed.

It is Dark Depth Attainment 玄徳 [gen toku].

We accept the fundamental energy Tao through the hologram and emit the same energy "back" to the circulation of the energy Tao.

Respect the world for its role as a catalyst.

Thank the world.

Love the world.

That's how we keep Tao's circulation flowing.


«Related Articles»
-Your birth 51-1
-Attainment 51-2
-They form you 51-3
-Vessel = Hologram 51-4
-Respect Tao 51-5
-Honor Attainment 51-6
-By itself 51-7
-Character 51-8
-Possession 51-9
-Don't rely 51-10
-No subject 51-11
-Dark Depth Attainment 51-12
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 51


Tao answers your question!



☞The Japanese respect Tao. Why? Please count the number of Japanese words that ends with the suffix "do", which often means Tao. To us, Tao is the way of devine power. It comes out naturally. So, everything natural is devine, like lust for example. Shunga, which means "a Spring picture", is the source of natural energy as plants and animals wake up in spring. With a Shunga, your soul wakes up.