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.


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-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.

A French woman who loves Japan

My girlfriend started her own blog in Japanese.

She is French and doesn't speak Japanese well. She has tried to learn the language, but it seems too difficult. I am so glad that I don't have to learn it any more. 

It is too painstaking. I still have nightmares about my school days.

"Oh, my god, the time is running out and I have to come up with the answer."

"What can I do if I flunk. The university will expel me. How can I explain this to my parents."

Every day and every week you have to memorise kanji (Chinese characters) or the names of kings in England or something.

The title of her blog is "Furansu josei no Nihon wo aisuru Michi", which means The Way for a French woman to Love Japan.

She tells me the outline of her entry every morning while having breakfast and I am her ghost writer.

Another important task is added to our Asakusa Underground project.

Free calls

A few weeks ago, we received a notice from SFR, which is a telecommunication company connecting us to telephone and ADSL.

They had already had its free call service to various countries, but Japan and Thailand were not included. In the letter, they informed us that these areas were officially included.

My girlfriend is still caucious, thinking that it could be a fraud.

After several trials and verification on her account (she is the one who pays), we were ready to go for calling my family and friends.

I talked with Hiro, my old friend and my mother.

Both of them are in Japan.

Later in the evening, we got a call from Mon Chi-chi, the son of my first cousin and my collaborator for Asakusa Underground travel site, currently travelling in Thailand.

He had been to several go-go-bars and naughty places and seemed to be having a nice time, though he said that he was a little disappointed because he had not picked any square girls on the street.

Families and friends are nice, aren't they?