Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-7 Stay empty

Today's Tao

The best way is to stay empty. (Ch.5)


To stay empty isn't to think nothing.

Can you really think nothing?

In Zen Buddhism, it is called "Bumo misho izen".

Literally, it means "before Father and Mother are born".

It is the state before things are created, or your hologram is projected (in the "brain").

It is Tao.

So, to stay empty means to stay with Tao.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-6 More words, more exhausted

Today's Tao

The more words you use, the more exhausted you get. (Ch.5)


The more words you use, the more analytical you are.

Analysing the world is a sort of refusing it.

The more you analyse, the more conscious you are of your own self.

Then, you are stuck in the world, which is your hologram.

When you analyse and get exhausted, you are simply wasting your fundamental energy Tao.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-5 Give more, receive more

Today's Tao

The more it moves, the more comes out. (Ch.5)


"The world is your hologram. It exists as a catalyst."

When I say this, please don't take those words as a pejorative.

The hologram is as important as what we call the reality.

It moves our emotion.

We get agitated in a sublime way.

Then, we emit the fundamental energy Tao.

Consequently, the more energy you give to your hologram, the more energy you receive through it.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-4 Never exhausted

Today's Tao

It's empty, but will never be exhausted. (Ch.5)


By any chance, do you know Chuang Tzu's famous saying "the frog in the well"?

People normally use it to say that the person is as ignorant and narrow-minded as "the frog in the well", who doesn't know anything about outside his own small world.

But who is ignorant, really?

Isn't Chuang Tzu talking about holography there?

It is a fantastic metaphor of a holographic movie if you interpret the wall of the well as a three-dimensional Cinerama screen around you, the frog.

Surely, the hologram you are seeing is empty, but your movie will never be exhausted.


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Is a bellows a hologram? video

Today's Tao

Between heaven and earth, isn't it like a bellows? [Ch.5]


See Is a bellows a hologram? 5-3 to read the text.


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Today's Tao

The sage has no mercy.

He treats everyone as straw dogs. [Ch.5]


See True wisdom 5-2 to read the text of the video.

The paper in the photo is not "Straw dogs". This symbolises the presence of gods in Japanese Shintoism.


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No mercy video

Today's Tao

Heaven and earth have no mercy.

They treat everything as straw dogs. [Ch. 5]


This is one the best known sentences in Tao Te Ching, thanks to Dustin Hoffman and the moveie "Straw Dogs".

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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-3 Is a bellows a hologram?

Today's Tao

Between heaven and earth, isn't it a bellows? (Ch.5)


Lao Tzu chose this word "bellows" as a metaphor in order to tell us about holography?

I think he did.

It must have been extremely difficult to explain the world projected in our mind without the help from the concept of holography.

Personally I think this is the missing link between Zen and Taoism.

Dogen the Japanese Zen master wrote a voluminous work called Shobogenzo. What does Shobogenzo mean?

Shobo means "right teachings". Gen means "eye". Zo means "storage".

An eye storage?

Am I wrong if I interpret it as a hologram?

Here, Taoism despised by Dogen and the Japanese master himself shake hands.

The title of his book could be translated "The right teaching about the holography in one's mind".


Shobogenzo@wiki


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-2 True wisdom

Today's Tao

The sage has no mercy.

He treats everyone as straw dogs. (Ch.5)


Straw dogs are discussed in detail in Tao by Matsumoto site. It is in the chapter with the same name.

When I read Chuang Tzu's explanation on straw dogs, it reminds me of the paper gods (wakazari?) in Japan.

We put them at all the corners of our house for the preparation to New Year's day.

Our little gods somehow adore nooks and crannies, especially places like a toilet booth and a kitchen corner.

We put paper on leaves (and make a wakazari) and offer it to gods, wishing the safety of the house.

Once New Year holidays are over, we throw them away like Chuang Tzu's straw dogs.

It symbolizes renewal and rebirth.

Too much mercy may block the natural process of renewal. The sage doesn't like that.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 5-1 No mercy

Today's Tao

Heaven and earth have no mercy.

They treat everything as straw dogs. (Ch. 5)


What do you think about these sentences which inspired the director Sam Pekinpah to make a film called "Straw Dogs" with Dustin Hoffman?

Mercy is subjective, and Tao doesn't like preferential treatment for anyone.

The sun showers its light to anyone no matter how bad he is according to the judgement of man.


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