Today's Tao
Heaven's Tao gives benefits and does not damage any. (Ch.81)
"Heaven" signifies "this world right here right now", which is your hologram.
Therefore, "Heaven's Tao" means Tao in a hologram, that is to say, Tao manifested as a hologram.
This manifestation is called Hossho 法性 in Buddhism.
Your life is Hossho.
Don't worry about how you live and how others live.
All the lives are more or less the same.
Your life that manifests itself right here right now is the most important.
Don't worry about someone else's criteria to judge a man's life.
When you see them in a book or on TV, just say "thanks" and ignore them.
Gratitude is an act of sending Love (=Tao).
All the acts take place in a hologram.
So, an act of sending Love takes place in a hologram, which is the life right here right now.
That's why you must not despise this world.
You receive "Tao's Love" and all the hologram it projects.
Zen Master Dogen says:
"You must not look at anywhere but this world in order to meet Buddha".
いわゆる世界は十方みな仏世界なり
(Kobutsushin 古仏心, «Shobogenzo»)
Meeting Buddha is receiving Love.
It takes place on your face. (☞See Face Transmission / Menju / Beauty 80-8)
That's why Dogen asks you to wash your face and body well. (Senjo 洗浄, «Shobogenzo»; Senmen 洗面, «Shobogenzo»)
The world is an extension of your body.
Keep your face clean.
It is one easy and practical way to accept this world.
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☞«Recommended Books 17» Zen Master Ikkyu was a good friend of Konparu Zenchiku, a dancer/actor of Noh theatre. This eccentric duo wrote and performed «Yama Uba» in a village in medieval Japan. You can study Zen Buddhism, but studying something is not necessarily living it. Rather, you can learn Zen without analyzing Sutras and Mantras. Meditation will certainly help you find out what Zen is, but if you think squatting a la Japonaise will teach it better than theatre does, you will never learn what it is. You can even learn Zen while frying French fries at a diner. Peter Brook's «Empty Space
» inevitably makes a Japanese think about "Ma 間", spacial or sonic emptiness. The Japanese have been considering it as the rich source of creativity. If you find the concept of Everything = Nothing a bit too hard to grasp, why don't you look to this theatrical genius for advice? You don't have to go straight to the gate of Tao or Zen. Anne Bogart will show you some backstage door to get in there. Read her «Viewpoint
», and you will see why theatre is a good friend of Zen Buddhism.
were good friends. They were friends from high school. They met each other at Ishikawa-ken Senmon Gakko. The school later changed its name to Dai 4 Koto Gakko, which literally means "the forth high school". It was one of the most prestige high schools in Japan before WW2. The school was closed in 1950. Its tradition was spiritually inherited by Kanazawa University. Nishida was part of the founding members of Koa Kogyo University, now called Chiba Institute of Technology. «
» on the left is the same book as «A Study of Good». The book shines as the beacon of modern Japanese philosophy. Kitaro Nishida was an excellent thinker and black sheep where many people say "A good one doesn't 'think'. One who 'thinks' is not good".
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» are tragically funny. Both are considered masterpieces in Japan. Smile guaranteed.
鈴木大拙, the author of many important books on Zen in English, was Nishida's close friend. They met each other at a high school in Kanazawa, Ishikawa prefecture, Japan. High school education is no longer available exclusively for the elite these days while its level is not so academically "high" as the name declares.
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. With an introduction by Robert Wilkinson. / "The Tao is called the Great Mother empty yet inexhaustible," On the right, «Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Perennial Classics)» translated by 
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: A Revolutionary Approach to the Practice of Painting (Zen of Creativity)» written by Jeane Carbonetti. / "An artist is defined by the life they live, not by society's definitions of what an artist is." On the right, «
: 44 principles for an Artist's Life» written by Sean Starr. / Like in the olden days, Tao Te Ching helps artists still nowadays.
» written by Benjamin Hoff. / "Modern physics has had a profound influence on almost all aspects of human society." On the right, «
» written by Fritjof Capra. / We are happy to introduce some old soldiers to young officers.
» translated by Derek Bryce and Leon Wieger. / "The person of superior integrity does not insist upon his integrity;" On the right, «
». A new translation by Victor H. Mair based on the recently discovered Ma-Wang-Tui manuscripts.
: The New Illustrated Edition of the Chinese Philosophical Masterpiece (The Art of Wisdom)» translated by Chad Hansen. / "The Tâo that can be trodden is not the enduring and unchanging Tâo.» On the right, «
» translated by James Legge.
. It is called Hannya Shin gyo in Japanese. On the right, «
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»? Don't tell me the onsen hot spring resort is just two hours away from Tokyo station. 
is not exactly the same as Komako's Yuzawa Onsen. Besides, Japan's social structure has changed since 1934, when Komako (a geisha "Matsue", probably) might have met Shimamura (the alter ego of the author Yasunari Kawabata). It no longer allows a Japanese man to stay in a hotel for weeks while paying for a geisha's daily charge. The spirit of «Snow Country» is diluted but has prevailed. Nowadays, many everyday girls at 
or at 
behave like Komako without a Shamisen guitar. With democracy, some privileges have disappeared. Have romances disappeared in commercial arrangements? Who knows. You are the one to find out in the land of geisha girls, or of Kitty Cat and Pikachu, depending on the way you look at the country.
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 
for the cure of cancer. Eat them while enjoying a nice reading of Michio Kushi's «
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