Tao Te Ching Chapter 69-2 Be passive

Today's Tao

Our side dare not be active, but be passive. (Ch.69)


Be passive.

Don't be active.

Passiveness defeats activeness. (☞See Female beats male 61-4)

Use Dark Depth Female 玄牝 [gen pi].

In Taoism, the word "female" represents passiveness.

While being passive and accepting all, you create no resistance.

Then, Tao, which is expressed as "Dark Depth 玄 [gen]", can flow without hindrance.

"Don't be active", in other words, "Do nothing" suggests this attitude.

Please don't think that "Do nothing" means "You must not move your body or do something".

Whether you do something or not, true You are "doing nothing", that is to say, accepting all.

It is your hologram that is doing the act.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 69


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☞Small is big. This is the idea of Taoism. Small spaces can give you plenty of "space" in your mind. Katsuhiko Mizuno's «Landscapes for Small Spaces» will offer you many ideas for your spiritual gardening. ☞The Rock Garden at Ryoanji temple in Kyoto is one of the most beautiful Zen gardens in Japan. «The Art of the Japanese Garden» will show you a different concept of "What a garden is".

Tao Te Ching Chapter 61-4 Female beats male

Today's Tao

The female always beats the male because of its stillness. (Ch.61)


This is Lao Tzu's useful message, which you can apply to life without any complicated interpretation.

The word "male" suggests direct action.

Inaction beats action.

If you are still, you are better.

Passiveness defeats activeness.

Use Dark Depth Female rather than acting directly on your hologram (=the world).

Use Reverse Thinking, swapping the cause and the result.

If you are confused, don't move.

If you are forced to do something, do it without feeling ashamed.

When Chuang Tzu asks you not to move until you are forced to, he is not prohibiting you from moving.

On the contrary, if you sit still against any force, it shows that you don't understand his teachings at all.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 61


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 55-6 Male organ

Today's Tao

Although he doesn't know the intercourse of a male and a female yet, his male organ erects itself. (Ch.55)


A baby without intention or desire is in the state of Bumo Misho Izen 父母未生以前, which means "before the father and the mother are born".

The father, a male, meets the mother, a female in the valley, which is Tao.

The intercourse of a male and a female suggests the Yin Yang circle, which is the prayer wheel and the cycle of Tao's energy.

Your hologram will be projected in the cycle as a baby's male organ erects itself naturally.

Whether you are aware of it or not, the wheel called Life keeps on turning.

A baby doesn't know the mechanism.

Then, would you still like to know it?


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 55


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☞Hermann Hesse wrote «Siddhartha», which is one of the useful preparatory reading materials before you challenge oriental philosophies. He also wrote «Beneath the Wheel». What is the wheel to him? Is it his prayer wheel? It is nice to have a Tibetan prayer wheel at home. Every time you turn it, you will remember that your life is a prayer wheel and you have got nothing to worry about no matter how hard it appears.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 28-9 Valley, male, female

Today's Tao

Be the valley under the sky. (Ch.28)


The valley is the point where the male meets the female.

When we touch the nothingness, our mind is totally void.

We are happy to be empty.

All of them are saying the same thing.

Accept all.

If you cannot cherish this nothingness, it is no use talking about Zen.

Isn't it right, Master Ikkyu?


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 28


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-Is it love? Or, is it just a necessity to procreate? No matter how you call it, the act between a brother and his sister started the land of the floating world Ukiyo. It is "officially" written in Kojiki. The gods in the Japanese legends are funny and incredibly human. The first striptease in the islands of geisha is also "officially" recorded in the book. Caution. There are some pages, especially at the beginning of the book, where you will find only the names of gods. Skip the part and enjoy the funnier stories of greedy, violent, and promiscuous deities. It is not surprising at all that we have Akiba girls some millennia later. I am proud to be born there.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 28-8 Protect Darkness

Today's Tao

Protect its darkness. (Ch.28)


Stay with Dark Depth 玄 [gen], which is Tao.

How can we do that?

1. Learn the limit of male attitude. No direct action.

2. Keep female attitude. Do nothing, and your hologram will transform itself.

3. Be the valley. Be void. Being void means accepting all.

4. Then, you will remember that you are Tao. This is constancy.

5. Be like a baby.

6. There is neither black nor white. No dichotomy 二見なし [niken nashi].

(The male and female attitudes above have nothing to do with men and women. They are simply expressions used by Lao Tzu to express certain types of behavior.)


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-Darkness simply fascinates some. Surely it does the Japanese. In darkness, probably, we find some little fairies profoundly rooted in Shintoism. At the same time, we fear darkness. We transformed Shinjuku from the darkness of water purification plants to the pleasure world of flood of lights. Have the Japanese erased the darkness completely there. Not at all. On the contrary, plenty of people are attracted by the darkness of human existence in illuminated Shinjuku.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 6-5 No drain

Today's Tao

However much you use it, you will never drain it. (Ch.6)


No matter how much Tao you use, you will never drain it. There is no limit in Tao.

Then, why do we create "limit" like Yin and Yang, female and male?

Because it is the prayer teaching us the meaninglessness of dichotomy.

The prayer is not just something written.

The world, your hologram, is a prayer, a living prayer wheel.

We turn the prayer wheel of male and female. It never stops turning.

That's all. That's enough.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 28-1 Male

Today's Tao

Know its male. (Ch.28)


Know the limit of direct (=masculine) action in your hologram (=the world).


Please visit Tao by Matsumoto / Chapter 28 / Uncarved block.

Mata ashita. See you tomorrow.


Naoto Matsumoto adds:

The word "male" should be understood in the sense contrary to Dark Depth Female.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 28


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