Today's Tao
Right words sound contradictory. (Ch.78)
Tao's mechanism of return creates contradiction.
Lao Tzu says here that, if the words do not sound contradictory, they are not right.
They are artificial and superficial.
Let's review Lao Tzu's maxims in this chapter, which sound contradictory.
1. Be as soft and weak as water in order to activate Dark Depth Female. (☞See Water summary 78-1)
2. When you are lost in Mayoi, you are as hard as ice; when you are one with Tao, you are as soft as water. (☞See Water's attack 78-2)
3. A hologram doesn't change. One hologram is the whole world in each moment.
Caution! Each independent being is not one independent hologram. It is part of one hologram along with the other beings, including your own self. It is like a frame in a movie. (☞See No change 78-3)
4. Everyone in the world is you. (☞See Everyone = You 78-6)
5. No matter what we are doing, we are doing nothing, which means "sending Love (=Tao's energy)". (☞See No one acts 78-7)
6. No state. No evil. Don't criticize. Don't judge. (☞See State filth 78-8)
7. No superstitions. No bad omens. They are just catalysts.
8. Lao Tzu thinks it is ridiculous to resist. No resistance.
See? Right words sound contradictory, don't they?
«Related Articles»
-Water summary 78-1
-Water's attack 78-2
-No change 78-3
-Be weak 78-4
-Be soft 78-5
-Everyone = You 78-6
-No one acts 78-7
-State filth 78-8
-Bad omens 78-9
-Contradiction 78-10
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 78
Lao Tzu answers your question!
☞«Tao Te Ching» Key word comparison (28) / - Dark Depth Female [genpi / xuan pin / hsuan pin] 玄牝 - 玄 [gen / xuan / hsuan] means Dark Depth. 牝 [pi (hin) / pin], Female. This is one of the most important words in Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching. Mr Michael P. Garofalo has done an excellent research and comparison of the various translations. (http://www.egreenway.com/qigong/vstccs2.htm) Thanks to him, we can see easily how they translate 谷神不死, 是謂玄牝 in Chapter 6 / Valley God. / "The Valley Spirit never dies It is named the Mysterious Female." On the left, «Tao Te Ching (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)» translated by Arthur Waley
. 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 Stephen Mitchell
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. / "Mystery of all mysteries! The door to the hidden." On the right, «Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way» translated by 
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/ Ten nin go sui 天人五衰», the woman who has been the heroine in the first book «
/ Haru no Yuki 春の雪» answers to the question of reincarnation. It is worth reading how she explains it if you are interested in this intriguing concept.
: Honen's Path to Bliss». Honen is the teacher of Shinran. Amida Buddha is the pillar of Jodo Shin Shu / Pure Land Shin School of Buddhism. / On the right, «
: Essays on Shin Buddhism» is edited by Alfred Bloom and has some articles by him and Daisetz Suzuki among others. Later in his life, Suzuki, the author of «
», got interested in Jodo Buddhism as Zen Master Ikkyu did.
. This Other-power lights up all. A life is a process to learn Jiriki / Self-power is the same as Tariki. It is not surprising at all that Zen specialist 
was not only a Zen specialist. He was interested in Tariki of 
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» translated by John C. H. Wu. / "Growing older either reveals or hides the mystery of existence." On the right, «
» written by William Martin.
» translated by Jonathan Star. The text is the same as the one shown yesterday. "A way that can be walked is not The Way" / "The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao." On the right, «
» written by Dr Wayne W. Dyer.
