Showing posts with label destiny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label destiny. Show all posts

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Tao Te Ching Chapter 64-19 Excess


Today's Tao

He brings back people's excess to the state it was before. (Ch.64)


The kanji / Chinese character 過 [ka] signifies both "excess" and "past".

"Past" in the sense of "has been".

The thing that has been is the hologram that you have just received.

In Taoism, it is important to return this "has been" hologram to the state before it was projected.

How can we bring it back?

It's easy.

In the episode of 22-14 Return it!, simple Reverse Thinking is explained.

Read this entry with 22-4 Before parents' birth.

It will help you to better understand Reverse Thinking.

If you want to know about Tao's mechanism in terms of "return", the episode of 60-6 Returns to each other will be helpful.

Now you don't have to worry about your destiny.

You know how to bring it back.

(☞See Destiny 16-7)


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-Tree from a hair 64-7
-Nine-story tower 64-8
-A thousand league travel 64-9
-Do and Defeat 64-10
-Stick and Lose 64-11
-Defeat nothing 64-12
-Don't stick 64-13
-Before completed 64-14
-Careful end 64-15
-Desire no desire 64-16
-Rare coins 64-17
-Learn no learn 64-18
-Excess 64-19
-Transformation 64-20
-Don't dare 64-21
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64


Tao answers your question!



☞Don't underestimate her. A geisha was an artist, an artist of love-making. Like a good lawyer, their service cost a fortune and no longer exists in the same manner in a democratized post-war "floating world". Artists of love have been replaced by novices of love. All we can do now retrospectively is to read the masterpieces about the subject written by artists in literature. An artist with a pen and an artist of love used to go hand in hand. If you are interested in the humane side of the profession, read Yasunari Kawabata's «Snow Country». The Onsen Geisha, Komako, was considered as an ideal feminine being. If you are curious about the business practice of the profession, check Kafu Nagai's «Rivalry». Both giants in modern Japanese literature practically lived these stories though they are fictional.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Tao Te Ching Chapter 64-3 While fragile


Today's Tao

It is easy to melt a thing while it is fragile. (Ch.64)


Melt your own ego.


Zen Master Bassui Tokusho 抜隊得勝 (1323-1387) says:

"When you are lost, you are like ice."

迷ふときは氷の如し

[mayou toki ha koori no gotoshi]

(☞See Disintegrating 15-7)

He adds:

"Among all the pieces of ice, there is no ice that does not become water".

氷の中に水とならさる氷なし

[koori no naka ni mizu to narazaru koori nashi]

(«Bassui Kana Hogo» 抜隊仮名法語)


When you are solid as ice, you are lost.

When you are flexible as water, you are Buddha.

The Japanese word for Buddha is "hotoke 仏・ほとけ".

The word puns with "hodoke-ru ほどける", which means "to untangle".

Never mind being "fragile".

Then, you are flexible and untangled.

Don't be hard if you don't want to forget that you are Buddha and Tao.


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-Something stable 64-1
-Before materialization 64-2
-While fragile 64-3
-While minute 64-4
-Before existence 64-5
-In order 64-6
-Tree from a hair 64-7
-Nine-story tower 64-8
-A thousand league travel 64-9
-Do and Defeat 64-10
-Stick and Lose 64-11
-Defeat nothing 64-12
-Don't stick 64-13
-Before completed 64-14
-Careful end 64-15
-Desire no desire 64-16
-Rare coins 64-17
-Learn no learn 64-18
-Excess 64-19
-Transformation 64-20
-Don't dare 64-21
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64


Tao answers your question!



☞Don't fight against your destiny. Don't fight against any. The female characters in «The Tale of Genji» accept their destinies. So did its author, Murasaki Shikibu. When did the Japanese start suffering from the problem of Self? When did they start thinking that they could change their own destines, or that their egos were bigger than the force of nature? Typhoons, Tsunami, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes still teach us who we are. Read Lady Murasaki Shikibu's Diary and find out how did she come to terms with her destiny.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 52-10 Enlightenment


Today's Tao

This is called entering enlightenment. (Ch.52)


In the original text, the Kanji / Chinese character 常 [jo], which means constancy, is used to express "enlightenment".

In Chapter 16, Lao Tzu says:

"Going back to the destiny is called constancy. Learning constancy is called enlightenment."

Through the world, which is your hologram, you receive the fundamental energy Love, or Tao.

Then, you emit the energy while loving and creating the world.

This "act" is called Satori, or enlightenment.

Understanding and using this cycle is called "entering enlightenment".

Entering the state is easy because you are constantly living Satori and don't have to do anything to get there. (☞ See Enter enlightenment 27-8)

Just don't forget it.


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-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!



☞Hermann Hesse wrote «Beneath the Wheel» in 1906. He had needed to write «Demian» in 1919 before he wrote «Siddhartha» in 1922. What is the wheel to you? To you, is it something that makes you suffer? Or, is it a manifestation of a higher being? The three books, especially «Siddhartha», are highly recommended in order to understand Eastern philosophies with a Western mind.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 45-9 Heat


Today's Tao

Stillness defeats heat. (Ch.45)


As we discussed it yesterday, heat is part of your hologram.

Tao's "stillness" is behind the heat.

What is the "stillness", then?

Please check Tao Te Ching Chapter 16.


Lao Tzu says:

"Going back to the root is called stillness". (Stillness 16-6)


It is also called "going back to their destiny (=life)". (Destiny 16-7)


A moving hologram goes back to Tao's stillness.

Then, a new life / destiny of a hologram will be born.

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-Capable = Incapable 45-6
-Poor speech 45-7
-Tozan Ryokai / Cold 45-8
-Heat 45-9
-Clear and Still 45-10
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 45
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching Chapter 16 / Go back
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching Chapter 42 / One, two, three The Kanji / Chinese character of Destiny / Life 命 [mei] can be found in Chuang Tzu's text 12-8 on Heaven and Earth.


Tao answers your question!



☞What is the definition of the word "Geisha"? Etymologically speaking, it means "an artist or artisan": "gei" signifies "art"; "sha""person". Since they sell the service of their "art", there are better ones and worse ones. Who's good at this? Who doesn't know about that? Therefore, someone can write about their «Rivalry». A great writer Kafu Nagai takes the pains of recording the humane aspects of this art of flirtation.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 34-5 Small


Today's Tao

Tao never has any desire, so we can name it Small. (Ch.34)


Tao doesn't think.

Tao has neither intention nor desire.

Tao is not destiny that controls your life.

It is just neutral energy.

Your own Self uses this energy to project the hologram (=the world).

In other words, your own Self creates the destiny.

Tao doesn't have the least control or influence over anything.

Tao is small, isn't it?

Tao is too small to punish you or give you a bad karma.

We are safe.


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-Flooded water 34-1
-No exclusion 34-2
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-Love = Tao 34-4
-Small 34-5
-Big's chaos 34-6
-Achieve Big 34-7
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 34


Tao answers your question!



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Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Tao Te Ching Chapter 16-8 Constancy


Today's Tao

Going back to the destiny is called constancy. (Ch.16)


"Destiny" is a misleading word.

Do you agree if I say, "You create your own destiny"?

Then, do you agree if I continue, "but you are not responsible for it"?

"Going back to the destiny" means "accepting your destiny".

If you accept it, you are constantly one with Tao.


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-Do emptiness 16-1
-Guard stillness 16-2
-Material beings 16-3
-Go back 16-4
-Root 16-5
-Stillness 16-6
-Destiny 16-7
-Constancy 16-8
-Satori 16-9
-Calamity 16-10
-Know constancy 16-11
-Public 16-12
-King 16-13
-King = Heaven 16-14
-Heaven = Tao 16-15
-Eternal 16-16
-The body decomposes 16-17
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 16


Lao Tzu answers your question!



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-What else can you call it? Destiny, isn't it? Or, is it their fault to be in a wrong place at a wrong time? One Black Rain created an ordeal in a girl's life. Another Black Rain created a group of powerful men without laws. Do we have the courage to say it all took place in our mind?

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Tao Te Ching Chapter 16-7 Destiny


Today's Tao

This is called going back to their destiny. (Ch.16)


"Destiny" is a misleading but useful word.

In principle, you are the one who creates your destiny (or so-called reality) in your hologram.

Nevertheless, if you think that you are responsible for it and obliged to act directly on it, you are mistaken.

You had better not act directly on your hologram.

Let it flow by accepting all.

In this sense, the idea that a god is responsible for your destiny is a useful device.

By thinking so, you can suppress your obsession to act, or do something.

You don't have to do anything.

You just accept all.

Then, your hologram will transform itself.

Don't worry.


I sincerely wish that you will read the text in Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 16 / Go back.

It is about destiny.

You are the one who creates it.

Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


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-Do emptiness 16-1
-Guard stillness 16-2
-Material beings 16-3
-Go back 16-4
-Root 16-5
-Stillness 16-6
-Destiny 16-7
-Constancy 16-8
-Satori 16-9
-Calamity 16-10
-Know constancy 16-11
-Public 16-12
-King 16-13
-King = Heaven 16-14
-Heaven = Tao 16-15
-Eternal 16-16
-The body decomposes 16-17
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 16
-Heat 45-9


Lao Tzu answers your question!



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-Suna no Onna 砂の女 / The woman in the dunes, originally written as a play by Kobo Abe, is directed by Hiroshi Teshigawara. Can you accept your destiny without resistance? Or, can you say that you are responsible for the creation of your destiny?