Tao Te Ching Chapter 81-1 Beautiful words

Today's Tao

Trustworthy words are not beautiful. Beautiful words are not trustworthy. (Ch.81)


If you don't have time, please just check this chapter.

As Lao Tzu says, reading words is not very important.

The important thing is living.

Living is the most religious act of all.


There are three basic points.

1. The so-called world is a hologram and catalyst to keep Tao's energy circulating.

2. "Self" doesn't exist. "Self" is just a word given to one part of a hologram. (☞See also Tao Te Ching / Chapter 7 / No Self)

3. Words, including knowledge and thoughts, are part of a hologram.


What is living?

Living is turning the prayer wheel.

It is called Tenborin 転法輪 in Zen Buddhism. (☞See Tao's flower 38-14 and Kensho Jobutsu / No away 47-3)

It is receiving Tao's energy through a hologram and emitting Tao's energy while projecting a hologram.

On your face, it takes place.

It is called Menju 面授, Face transmission. (☞See Face Transmission / Menju / Beauty 80-8)

Beautiful words, such as logic, analysis, judgment, and justice among others, are obstacles that increase your resistance.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 81
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☞«Recommended Books 11» I am glad you are the one who is reading this recommendation. I am sure that I can count on you. Next time you meet one of your friends who are interested in Japan's literature, please mention the name of Osamu Dazai. "Who's that Dazai guy? I know Mishima and Banana, but I have never heard of him", he might reply. Osamu Dazai is probably the most underrated Japanese novelist outside the country. So, the artist needs your help. When the situation is the most desperate, you just feel like laughing. Why? Because laughter has magic. It transforms a tragedy into a comedy within a second. «No Longer Human» and «The Setting Sun» are tragically funny. Both are considered masterpieces in Japan. Smile guaranteed.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 76-4 Dry end

Today's Tao

The end of its life is dry and withered. (Ch.76)


When you see that your plants are dry and withered, what do you think?

Their lives are getting closer to an end?

If so, please remember that every moment of life is a momentary phase (=Ho-i 法位). (☞See Hard end 76-2)

It is an independent momentary holographic image.

The end has nothing to do with the beginning.

Besides, all the holographic images are prayers. (☞See Tao by Matsumoto / Male and Female; Life's a prayer wheel)

When we see their end, we often feel sad.

Why?

Some associate it with their own end;

others are reminded of the loss of someone.

But it is strange.

Nothing ever ends because there is no beginning.

No one loses any because nothing has ever existed.

The holographic images of end and loss are asking us the same thing as those of beginning and birth:

"Send more Love".


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 76


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☞«Tao Te Ching» Key word comparison (4) / -Dark Depth 玄 [gen]- Let's see how they translate 玄之又玄衆妙之門 in Chapter 1. / "The Mystery of mysteries is the Door of all essence." On the left, «Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching (Shambhala Dragon Editions)» translated by John C. H. Wu. / "Subtle wonder within mysterious darkness. This is the beginning of all understanding." On the right, «The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzu» translated by Brian Browne Walker.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 76-3 Fragile life

Today's Tao

The life of everything; grasses or trees, is soft and fragile. (Ch.76)


Why does life exist?

Why do the lives of grasses and trees exist?

First, life, or the life of any being, is part of a hologram.

Second, a hologram exists as a catalyst.

The catalyst stimulates Tao, the circulation of the fundamental energy.

This relation between the stimulating and the stimulated beings is metaphorically expressed as "to explain manifestation / 説法 [seppo]", or "to turn the wheel of manifestation / 転法輪 [tenborin]".

In other words, everything you see in your hologram is a prayer.

The catalytic prayer stimulates you, who is Tao.


That's why Zen Master Dogen says:

"Sometimes it uses the letters of one hundred grasses;

sometimes it uses the letters of ten thousand trees".

あるいは百草の文字をもちゐ、

あるいは万木の文字をもちゐる

(Bukkyo 仏経, «Shobogenzo»)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 76


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☞«Tao Te Ching» Key word comparison (3) / -Dark Depth 玄 [gen]- Let's see how they translate 玄之又玄 in Chapter 1. / "Mystery of mysteries" On the left, «Tao Te Ching (SkyLight Illuminations)» translated by Derek Lin. / "Deep and again Deep" On the right, «Tao Te Ching» by Stephen Addis and Stanley Lombardo.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 72-6 Take it

Today's Tao

Therefore, he leaves that and takes this. (Ch.72)


First in Chapter 12, then in Chapter 38, and now this is the third time Lao Tzu asks us to leave "that" and take "this". (☞See Not that one, but this one 12-7 and Leave it 38-15)

Then, what are "this" and "that"?

"This" is Tao, which is true You.

And "that" is your hologram, which is the world in front of you, including your own self.

"Leave your hologram and take Tao."

That's what Lao Tzu is saying here.

Watch out. This could be your pitfall.

"Uh, h… The world is my hologram, and Lao Tzu is asking me to leave the hologram. I know how to do it. I meditate. While meditating I can leave this reality and go into an altered state. This is Satori, right?"

Wrong!

Satori is not an act of looking for a refuge.

Take this reality as a catalyst and cherish "right now right here".

Emit Love and turn the wheel of manifestation (=転法輪 [tenborin]).

Learn: "this = that"!

This is Satori.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 72


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☞«Tao of ****» The first line comparison (4) / "Hello. I'm Willie Nelson. A way can be a guide, but not a fixed path. —The Tao Te Ching" On the left, «The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart» written by Willie Nelson and Turk Pipkin. / "Increase your effectiveness as a leader by helping others to develop and grow." On the right, «The Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You» written by Max Landsberg. / Unusual combinations are always welcome.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 67-1 Idiot

Today's Tao

Everyone in the world under the sky says that I am Big and resemble an idiot who doesn't look like his parents. (Ch.67)


Everyone in the world under the sky, including "parents" or whoever, is part of your hologram.

When you talk about Tao, people must laugh at you, saying like:

"All right, all right. You are Tao. You are the sage. I know. I know. I am sick and tired of hearing that I have got to love others. Listen. I don't want to patronize you, but your stories about Tao are bizarre. You speak like an idiot. Look at your family. Your parents, brothers, and sisters are quite normal. You are a black sheep in the family."

Lao Tzu is saying that other people should react like that.

You "resemble an idiot".

You are not like your parents, who are part of the hologram.

The holograms are also called prayers, which are telling you that true You are Tao. (☞About Big = Tao, see Ch.25 Manifestation)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 67


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☞Nobuyoshi Araki is one of the most important photographers in post-war Japan. He is an acute witness of the life in Tokyo. So was Hokusai in Edo, which is the former name of the current capital of Japan.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 63-8 Complicated in Easy

Today's Tao

Complicated things in the world must be created in the easy. (Ch.63)


Let's replace the expression "in the world" with "in your hologram" as we always do when we see it.

Seemingly complicated things in your hologram are the manifestation of the simplest thing called Tao.

They are holograms and catalysts created in Tao in order to stimulate the circulation of its energy.

Tao is the most fundamental of all.

So, it is the simplest and easiest.

Then, why do many people say Zen and Tao are complicated and difficult to understand?

Because they cannot abandon the concept of Self.

If it's your case, let me ask you a question?

Have you ever seen the quantum physical limit of your own self?

Self is a myth.

Not Tao nor Zen.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 63


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☞Reincarnation has been fascinating many artists. Yukio Mishima, probably the best known modern Japanese novelist, had tackled the subject just before he committed a well monitored spectacle of the traditional Japanese ritual. This «The Decay of the Angel / Tennin gosui » is the last of the four book series: «The Sea of Fertility». Mishima demonstrates his idea about reincarnation in the dialogue between a man and a Buddhist nun at the end of the novel. Rumiko Takahashi, one of the wealthiest Japanese cartoonists and the creator of «Urusei yatsura» and «Maison Ikkoku», chose the very subject as the title of a series. «Rin ne» means reincarnation in Japanese. But Zen and Tao's interpretation of reincarnation is not exactly the same as theirs. The kanji / Chinese characters Rin-ne 輪廻 literally signify: "A wheel turns".

Tao Te Ching Chapter 59-4 Repeat Attainment

Today's Tao

Repeat and accumulate the attainment, and you can beat any. (Ch.59)


"Repeat" your Dark Depth Attainment.

That means: "Don't forget that true You are Tao".

Is it difficult?

You forget it once in a while, right?

Is there any method to remember it?

Yes, there is.

Just do nothing.

You may want to ask me what "do nothing" means, right?

You don't have to do anything while accepting and loving the world as it is.

You can be aware that you are turning the Tao/hologram cycle (=the prayer wheel, =Yin Yang circle).

By turning it, you are sustaining Tao itself.

Of course, you can beat any because you are the one who projects it in your holographic world.

You are its master.

So, don't judge.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 59


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☞When you talk about Zen, you don't have to use the word. Nevertheless, when you talk about something else, the word Zen can help you sometimes. In «Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance», Robert M. Pirsig tells us about the father/son relationship and the man/nature tie. On the other hand, in «Big Wednesday», the story tells us about life, which is sometimes synonymous to Zen.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 59-3 Return & Repeat

Today's Tao

Returning early is said to be repeating and accumulating the attainment. (Ch.59)


Let's make it clear.


Attaining Satori
=
Attaining Tao
=
Attaining Dark Depth
=
Doing nothing
=
Accepting all
=
Sending Love
=
Turning the prayer wheel
=
Remembering that true You are Tao


Returning early to Tao
=
Repeating the attainment
=
Accumulating the attainment
=
Remembering that you are sustaining Tao's cycle by receiving and emitting the energy Tao.


Do you remember there is no time in Tao?

If you do it once, it is the same as repeating it.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 59


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☞Exploring Japanese literature is never easy. The cultural gap used to be insurmountable between where you are and where geisha and samurai lived. Besides, there is a question of translation unless you are fluent in Japanese. How can you translate a Kotodama (=the spirit of a word) based on and developed from onomatopoeia into an abstract concept! In this sense, Yukio Mishima's works are a good and accessible entrance gate to Japanese literature since the author is supposed to have detested the dependence on onomatopoetic expressions.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 58-5 Eternal cycle

Today's Tao

No one knows the end of this cycle. (Ch.58)


Fortune and misfortune, Yin and Yang, Tao and holograms; all of them are the same, the same eternal cycle. (☞See Ch.59)

This cycle is the prayer wheel and the wheel of Buddha's manifestation (=Horin 法輪).

Of course, no one knows its end because there is no end.

No one knows its beginning, either, because there is no beginning.


That's why in Buddhism they say:

"No life, no end of life / 不生不滅 [fusho fumetsu]".


In other words, we are living in the eternal cycle, which is the constant beginning.

Fortune and misfortune are one.

Yin and Yang are one.

Tao and holograms are one.

Then, why do they appear different?

In order to give us an opportunity to remember that they are one.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 58


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☞It is a good idea to read and compare these two books on Samurai. Inazo Nitobe was a Christian and wrote «Bushido: The soul of Japan» in 1900. Bushido signifies "The way of Samurai / Tao of Samurai". Yamamoto, Tsunetomo was a real Samurai and "wrote" «Hagakure: The art of Samurai» about 1716. Hagakure signifies "Hidden by the leaves".

Tao Te Ching Chapter 57-6 More useful tools

Today's Tao

The more useful tools the people have, the more disordered the state gets. (Ch.57)


One can read this piece of wisdom of Lao Tzu as the encouragement of disarmament or the dissuasion from hiring intelligent and brilliant consultants for the nation's top positions.

We all know the stories.

Arms races and financial crises are metaphors and prayers.

Let's remember that the words "people" and "state" signify your hologram.

"Useful tools" like intelligence simply provoke disorder in the hologram.

If you have power or intelligence, can you stay away from using them to act on the rest of the world (=your hologram)?


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 57


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☞The title of the famous tune in Nagisa Oshima's «Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence» is «Forbidden Colors». This is the same as one of Yukio Mishima's novels. "Iro", which means color in Japanese, often signifies lust. Please look at the photo of the book on the left and use your imagination what kind of lust is forbidden and how much pleasure they get because of this very prohibition. Just click the publicity on the right and enjoy the sample music at the Amazon site. I am sure you have heard the beautiful melody composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto, who acted in the film as a Japanese officer at a prison camp in Indonesia during World War 2.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 55-14 Strong = Old

Today's Tao

If a thing is strong, it gets old. (Ch.55)


You can find the same sentence in Chapter 30.

Being strong is like athletes using steroids.

They get old prematurely. (Strong steroids 30-11)


Chuang Tzu says:

"Do you know that prayer mantis?

Waving its arms angrily, it confronts the wheel of a cart."

(Inner Chapter IV　内篇　人間世篇　第四, «Chuang Tzu 荘子»)


The wheel of the cart is time, your prayer wheel.

The mantis wants to be strong.

Strong enough to defeat the cart, which is a few thousand times bigger than itself.

If you want to be strong, please ask yourself whether you look like this mantis.

If you are strong, you get old. If you fight, the wheel of time will crush you.

Be like a baby and live forever.


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☞«Chuang Tzu» is a very important book. There is not doubt about it. But the problem is that there are so many comments by later hands mixed up with the original. Besides, the book is rather voluminous. Inevitably, one has to ask himself whether it is worth reading the entire book. A relatively safe bet is to read only «The Inner Chapter of Chuang Tzu». Nevertheless, researchers admit that even in the Inner Chapter there are plenty of notes and comments written by someone else.

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 49-11 Close ears & eyes

Today's Tao

People all open their ears and eyes, but the sage closes all of them. (Ch.49)


The sage never watches the news on TV because he knows so-called objective information is truly misleading.

Now it is about time we followed the attitude of Nikko's three monkeys.

See nothing.

Say nothing.

Hear nothing.

Not just something evil.

Nothing at all because we don't judge.

Or, let's go a tiny step farther.

All what we see is a hologram and catalyst to stimulate us.

We watch and listen to all the financial disasters and environmental catastrophes, while knowing that they are a prayer wheel or Horin 法輪, the wheel of Tao's manifestation.

And we will thank all of them for taking place, while receiving their Love and sending your Love to them.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 49


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☞Nikko is a place you must not miss when you visit Japan. It is not too far from Tokyo, and, if you have a day-off, it is enough to pay a visit to Toshogu shrine and see the famous three monkeys of "Mizaru, Kikazaru, and Iwazaru" (See no evil, hear no evil, and say no evil, respectively in Japanese). You can also visit the beautiful Kegon-no-Taki Falls. Watch out! Wild monkeys might violently welcome you there. The real monkeys there have nothing to do with Lao Tzu's wisdom and are happy to rob you of the sweets in your bag.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 47-3 Kensho Jobutsu / No Away

Today's Tao

The farther you go away from it, the less of it you know. (Ch.47)


Osamu Kanaya talks about Kensho Jobutsu 見性成仏 of Zen Buddhism in his Japanese translation of this chapter of Tao Te Ching. («Roshi», Kodansha Gakujutsu Bunko, Kodansha, Tokyo)

"See one's nature and become Buddha." (=Kensho Jobutsu 見性成仏)

You are Buddha. You are Tao.

So, it is logical that "The farther you go away from" your own self, the less you learn about Tao and Buddha.

First, you learn that your own self and the rest of the world are part of the hologram. (1)

Then, your hologram will teach you what Tao and Buddha is. (2)


Naoto Matsumoto adds:

This exchange between (1) and (2) is precisely the cycle of Yin and Yang, Tao's cycle,  the prayer wheel, or the wheel of the manifestation (Horin 法輪).

That's why turning the wheel of the manifestation (Tenborin 転法輪) is interpreted as preaching, where the learning and the teaching of (1) and (2) take place simultaneously.

This is synonymous with receiving and sending Love.


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☞A man who can speak English cannot talk about Zen as well as this Japanese man does. A man who can talk about Zen cannot speak English as well as the Japanese man does. His name is Daisetz Suzuki. He asks us three questions: "Can we live by Zen?", "Can we live with Zen?", and "Can we live Zen?". His answer is a rhetorical question: "Can we live without Zen?". Whether you live by Zen or not, Zen is you. One cannot live without Zen.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 44-8 Last long

Today's Tao

Thus, you can last long. (Ch.44)


True You are Tao.

Therefore, you are eternal.

In Buddhism, we call this «Fusho fumetsu / 不生不滅».

No life no vanishing. (No life. No end of life.)


Dogen says:

"Future is past and present".

(Juki 授記, «Shobogenzo»)


Life is a form of a hologram.

Vanishing is a form of a hologram, too.

They are part of the wheel of manifestation 法輪 [horin].

Don't be attached to either life nor the end of it.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 44


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☞Kitaro's album «Onbashira» is the name of a traditional Shintoist ritual. «Onbashira 御柱» means "The sacred pillars". The matsuri festival takes place once every six years. They drop the huge and heavy trunk of a fir tree (about 17 meters long, one meter in diameter, 10 tons) at the edge of a cliff top (about 35 degrees , and 100 meters long). People ride the log down the slope. If you want to get your adrenalin going, you can go to Suwa, Nagano, Japan, instead of Pamplona for the run with the bulls, for change. Well, in six years time. Beautiful Lake Suwa will be always there, waiting for you. Enjoy magnificent Mt Fuji over Suwa Lake as millions of Samurai did. Here is Onbashira official site in English and Japanese.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 42-3 Three's birth

Today's Tao

Two gives birth to Three. (Ch.42)


Now Tao has got the sending end and the receiving end in itself.

It is ready to send the energy.

Send what?

There is nothing but Tao the fundamental energy, so it has to be it.

The third of the three is the energy in the middle between the two ends.

Tao sends Tao.

Tao receives Tao.

The wheel turns.

That's how Tao remain being Tao.

For this process, "everything" exists.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 42


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-Don't worry, Mr Hesse. Nobody is beneath the wheel. He IS the wheel. We need not worry about the great author, though. When Hermann Hesse wrote «Beneath the Wheel», certainly he was young and knew much less. Later on, he wrote «Siddartha» and we can tell that he knew life was the wheel. This book with the name of Buddha has little to do with his biography. Rather, it is a record of the spiritual development of the poet.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 41-2 Tao's means

Today's Tao

Being weak is Tao's means. (Ch.41)


Accept the world as it is.

We all know that's the best way.

Then, we wonder why we have got an unquenchable desire to change the world.

Why?

Change itself is nothing bad.

On the contrary, it is essential.

Holograms have to change.

Every time a hologram changes, every time the prayer wheel turns, Tao's energy returns to Tao.

The important thing is that you must not force the hologram to change.

That's why we have to be weak.

Avoiding any direct action on the world is Tao's effective means.

This attitude is called Dark Depth Female 玄牝 [gen pi].


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Tao answers your question!



-What do I miss about lost Japan? Legendary Momoe Yamaguchi half naked in the «Izu Dancer» film? No, I don't think so. When I was big enough to go to a movie theatre and see the film, old Japan had already been lost. What Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata wrote in the original of the film was the class difference in Japan before World War 2. The post-war Japanese society could not allow a university student to give a generous tip to traveling dancers. Dancers were still despised by good housewives. Dancers travelled from a town to another still in 1970s. But by train or car. Students were no longer considered to belong to an upper class. It was almost impossible for a student to tip a dancer an amount of money big enough to surprise her, unless he went abroad and did it in a developing country.