Tao Te Ching Chapter 64-5 Before existence

Today's Tao

Do it before it has come to exist. (Ch.64)


華開世界起

[kekai sekaiki].

That's what they say in Zen Buddhism.

It means:

"A flower opens. The world gets up".


A flower symbolizes a hologram.

A hologram opens up and the world comes to exist there.

This is a so-called "reality" that is reconstructed in our "mind" as a catalyst.


Buddha said:

"It is like a man with bleary-eyed vision seeing the flowers in the middle of emptiness."

亦如翳人見空中華

（Shuryogon Sutra Book 4 首楞厳経　第四巻 ☞See also Wild field 53-4）


But, watch out.


Zen Master Dogen cautions.

We must not ignorantly interpret it as: "Since we are lost, we see illusions in the air".

In Buddhism, "a man with bleary-eyed vision" means a man of Satori.

(Kuge 空華, «Shobogenzo»)


Let's decode Today's Tao sentence.

Send love "before" your projected hologram "comes to exist" in the world, asking you to send more love.


[Note]
The world = your projected hologram


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64


Tao answers your question!



☞Was Godzilla "born" with a grudge? Surely, the monster had been asleep when human beings experimented a hydrogen bomb. He was just a gigantic animal asleep in the middle of evolution. In Akira Kurosawa's «Ikiru», was the man living with a grudge against bureaucratic work? Surely, the man was working to earn a living. He was in the middle of spiritual evolution. Godzilla left his body in Tokyo Bay. The bureaucrat left a small park for children. The director of «Godzilla», Ishiro Honda, worked as an assistant under Akira Kurosawa during the production of «Stray Dog».

Tao Te Ching Chapter 53-4 Wild field

Today's Tao

The field is very wild. (Ch.53)


"Who destroyed the beautiful rice field!"

"Globalization and multi-nationals are responsible for the desertification of the world!"


All right, all right.

You need someone to blame.

But, if you follow Tao or Zen, you have got no one to blame.

Don't judge anyone even if nature is being destroyed.

Ask yourself what the world and its nature are.


Buddha said:

"It is like a man with bleary-eyed vision seeing the flowers in the middle of emptiness."

亦如翳人見空中華

(Shuryogonkyo / Suramgama Sutra 首楞厳経 10-4; also Kuge 空華, «Shobogenzo». ☞See 64-5 Before existence for Dogen's Caution.)


They are your hologram.


Master Dogen says:

"The flowers of emptiness have everything on the lands blossom."

従華開の尽地あり。（空華は地空ともに開発せしむる）

(Kuge 空華, «Shobogenzo»)


The flowers of emptiness stimulate you to project other flowers.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 53


Tao answers your question!



☞They were not seven samurai at the beginning of the story. They were six samurai and one peasant. The young peasant who Toshiro Mifune embodied wanted to be a samurai. A few centuries later, now, modern-day Japanese samurai are corporate workers. They are spiritually and financially as tired and hungry as those defeated samurai in «Seven Samurai» after the two decades of sluggish economy there. The difference is that these days samurai want to be peasants.