Today's Tao
So, after all, nothing is difficult to him. (Ch.63)
From the beginning, nothing is difficult to anyone.
Because everything is a catalyst.
Or, you can call it a prayer as Zen Buddhists do.
Don't say either "difficult" nor "easy".
Don't judge.
Everything is sending you the same messages:
1. "Accept me."
2. "Love me."
All you have to do is to accept and love all.
That is how you make everything "easy".
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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 63
Tao answers your question!
☞Michio Kushi
is Macrobiotics-ojisan, or Uncle Macrobiotics. His contribution to the propagation of a healthier eating habit was rewarded with the Award of Excellence from the United Nations Society of Writers. Ironically, traveling too much around the world to advocate macrobiotics, he often has to stay in a hotel and eat out, and doesn't have enough time at home to practice his own macrobiotics, it seems. ☞Whether it is a folk belief or a scientific fact, the Japanese and others look to Shiitake mushrooms
for the cure of cancer. Eat them while enjoying a nice reading of Michio Kushi's «The Cancer Prevention Diet
».
» and the English one «
» do not correspond to each other. It is imaginable that the publisher of the English translation might have been concerned about a potential misinterpretation of its Japanese title. Look at the movie poster on the right. The discretion of the publisher should not be criticized. Nevertheless, Junichiro Tanizaki's «Manji» has nothing to do with World War 2. The novel was first published in 1928. Its title hints a four-way libidinous affair among two men and two women.
». ☞Children, especially girls, are much more intelligent than we think they are. Yasunari Kawabata, the author of «
» and «
» among others, wrote many short stories, many of which are about girls. Some intelligent girls on the street act beautifully. Other girls behave unintelligently, but the Nobel-prize-winning novelist finds beauty there. «
» is a wonderful collection of his short stories.
» can be translated as the Great Learning for women. It is a samurai version of «
» for girls and young women. The book was published in 1716 and based on Kaibara, Ekken's teachings. Yukichi Fukuzawa, the gentleman on Japan's 10,000 yen bill, wrote a modern and democratic version of it, called «The New Great Learning for Women / Shin Onnna Daigaku». ☞«
», which is a collection of translated works of Kaibara, Ekken by Ken Hoshino, includes «The Philosophy of Pleasure / Rakukun». 
» on the left at the age of 83. "Yojo" means care, and the title of the book can be interpreted as "the instructions for keeping healthy". On the right, «
» is the translation of Ekiken's «Taigiroku», the Record of Great Doubts.
, created «
». As its name shows, the Manga is about the life of the founder of Buddhism. This Japanese counterpart to Walt Disney also created «Phoenix» to tackle the theme of reincarnation. (☞Please compare Tezuka's interpretation with that of Tao by Matsumoto. See 
video version and 
cartoon version of «Phoenix» are available. These days few Japanese can ignore the Anime and the Manga as non-educational.
, probably the best known modern Japanese novelist, had tackled the subject just before he committed a well monitored spectacle of the traditional Japanese ritual. This «
/ Tennin gosui » is the last of the four book series: «
». Mishima demonstrates his idea about reincarnation in the dialogue between a man and a Buddhist nun at the end of the novel. 
, one of the wealthiest Japanese cartoonists and the creator of «
» and «
», chose the very subject as the title of a series. «
» means reincarnation in Japanese. But Zen and Tao's interpretation of 
". In fact, it is the name of a theatre in Osaka, Japan. 
is the proper name of the genre of the puppet play. Chikamatsu, Monzaemon left two masterpieces: «Sonezaki Shinju» and «
». You can find both puppet plays for matured audience in 
. "Shinju 心中" is an interesting word. If you inverse the two Kanji / Chinese characters, it means "center 中心". "Shin / Kokoro 心" signifies the heart; "Ju / chu / naka 中", the middle. In the middle of the unsolvable complication of their immoral love affair, a yujo 遊女 (= "play 遊, woman 女" literally) and his client commit Shinju and leave this floating world Ukiyo 浮世 for Heaven.
» and «
» was born in a village near Hiroshima. Having survived Great Kanto Earthquake in Tokyo in 1923, he used his vivid memories to write the novel «
». Shohei Imamura, the winner of two Cannes Festival Grand Prix with «
» and «
», shot the film «
» in black and white. 
relates the birth of modern Yakuza to the black rain after the historic moment in 1945.
