Tao Te Ching Chapter 81-6 Richer detachment

Today's Tao

Although he gives everything to others, he is richer. (Ch.81)


What is being rich?

The richest man is the one who can detach himself from all.

Don't be attached to wealth or prestige.

Don't be attached to an object or an idea.

Don't be attached to your life.

Don't be attached to individuality or your own self.

Mu ga 無我. Self doesn't exist. Or, nothingness is your true "self". (☞See Tao Te Ching / Chapter 7 / No Self)

Since the so-called "self" is part of a hologram, there is neither before-life nor after-life. (☞See Man's self 77-7 and After life / Task successfully accomplished 77-11 ☞As for "former life", see End of life 74-1)

An individual and independent soul does not exist. (☞See Out-Tao [Heresy] Seniya / Gedo Senni / Settled 80-9)

If you believe it does, you are too attached to the concept of individuality.

Don't think that your soul will go back to Tao after your life.

You have never left Tao in the first place.

You are always one with Tao. (☞See Tao by Matsumoto / One with Tao)

No life. No end of life. 不生不滅 [fusho fumetsu]. (☞See Live eternally 59-8)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 81


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☞«Recommended Books 16» "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." The more difficult to pronounce the mantra is, the more sacred. One can laugh at exoticism, but is he able to show you the way? The way how you can overcome the fancy costumes? If the seemingly greener grass fascinates you, the only solution might be going over the fence into the other side and discovering that the grass has the same color. If a Japanese boy believes that Major League Baseball (or Premier League football) is definitely "greener" than the baseball (or football) his countrymen play, he's gotta go there and beat some hitting records (or play better than George Best). Until then, the kid will be trapped in a strange mixture of complacency and self-negation, saying to his fellow citizens: "You don't know what it really is. What we have is false. Look over there. They have got something authentic". Kafu Nagai needed to go to America to make enough money to see France. The money he had earned was barely enough to let the spoiled Japanese twenty-something hang around in France for just ten months. Did he find that the grass was the same green wherever one went? It seems that in his mind the grass still remained greener somewhere but he was not able to be there. To fill the gap between what he had and what he wished to have, he created his "strange" but adorable world in the life of a woman who practiced a libidinous profession illegally on the other side of the River Sumida.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 80-13 Life without intervention

Today's Tao

But they get old and end their life without coming and going between their countries. (Ch.80)


"Without coming and going" is a key (=Kanreisu) to understand how holograms work.

It suggests "no intervention", "no interference".

Why is Lao Tzu against the interference to a hologram?

A dewdrop reflecting the moonlight. (☞See Dogs and Roosters 80-12)

This is a beautiful metaphor of the Tao/hologram mechanism, Shin 心.

The moonlight is Tao, which is true You.

The whole world is a dewdrop reflecting the moonlight, which is a hologram.

Without the modern concept of a hologram, Zen Buddhists needed to invent the expression "Eye storage / 眼蔵 [genzo]".

In terms of our interpretation of space, there is only one hologram, which includes all the beings, objects and intangible information such as thoughts alike.

In terms of our interpretation of time, there are a myriad of holograms, which are being created simultaneously.

"Life" is a name given to one group of them. (☞See Out-Tao (Heresy) Seniya / Gedo Senni / Settled 80-9)

"Life without coming and going" implies that there is no causation between holograms or dewdrops.

No causation, therefore no intervention. It is no use.

The unique causation is 複 [fuku] / return, which is to keep Tao's energy cycling and recycling.

A hologram stimulates Tao.

Tao gives birth to a hologram.

In conclusion, there is only the receiving and giving of Love, which is also called Tao.

This receiving and giving of Tao's energy takes place on your face. (☞See Face Transmission / Menju / Beauty 80-8)

That's why we don't have our face in the hologram.

Have you ever seen your face directly?


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 80


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☞«Recommended Books 10» Which is more dangerous, nature or human beings? To many Japanese, the question doesn't make sense because they think human beings are part of nature. The word "artificial" is not an antonym of "natural". The outside world is filled with plenty of Kami, gods, which may help and protect us, but sometimes in a whimsical way destroy us, destroy us completely. Please read Masuji Ibuse's short story «Salamander» first. The work is considered a masterpiece in Japan, and many students read it at school. Into a cave under the stream, a frog was swept. The salamander blocked the entrance of the cave with his body. The salamander had been captured there because his body was too big to get away. Now he had a "friend". If you have some time, before you go straight to «Black Rain», please read his «Castaways». It is about a young fisherman cast away by a typhoon and rescued by an American boat when it was illegal to leave Japan. Their docile acceptance of what it is and what it is happening will certainly give you another flavor when you read «Black Rain». Although Shohei Imamura's film is excellent, the end of the story is not precisely the same. It is worth reading the novel. Which after-taste do you prefer?

Tao Te Ching Chapter 80-9 Out-Tao (Heresy) Seniya / Gedo Senni / Settled

Today's Tao

Make them settle in their dwellings. (Ch.80)


No life. No end of life.

不生 不滅 [fusho fumetsu].

In Zen Buddhism, they say so.

Then, what happens after you die?

Nothing happens since there is no life in the first place.

There is no after-life.

Since Tao doesn't have time, there is neither before nor after.

"Life" is a name given to a sequence of holograms, which are being created simultaneously.


In his «Shobogenzo», Zen Master Dogen repeatedly denies the concept of Out-Tao, or non-Buddhist, Gedo Senni 外道先尼.

Some call him Heresy Seniya.

Out-Tao Seniya thinks that, after one dies, his soul goes back to "the sea of nature".

(Sokushinzebutsu 即心是仏, «Shobogenzo»)


Please let me make sure that we do not go anywhere after our life.

It's impossible since there is no "self" in the first place.

"Self" is a name given to an interpretation of some parts of a hologram.

Watch out!

Please do NOT think that you go back to Tao after your life.

You are permanently settled in Tao.


[Note]
You are Tao itself. Therefore, you don't have to go beck to Tao. Or rather, you cannot go back because you are already one with Tao. The word "return / go back 復 [fuku]" in Tao Te Ching suggests recycling Tao's energy. Remembering that true You are Tao is one way to do it.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 80


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☞«Recommended Books 6» "This is the end / Beautiful friend / This is the end / My only friend, the end", sang James Douglas "Jim" Morrison of Doors. Zen Master Dogen repeatedly denied the concept of "the end". Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima tackled it. Where do we go after we say "good-bye" to life? How do we reincarnate ourselves in another body? Does reincarnation really exist? Mishima asked us the question in the beginning of «Spring Snow», which is the first book of the tetralogy «The Sea of Fertility». Then, at the very end of «The Decay of the Angel», which is the fourth of the tetralogy and the last of all the works of Yukio Mishima, he had an old Buddhist nun answer the question with another question: "Does life really exist?" If life doesn't exist, what is reincarnation? The answer is simple: the constant emission of a hologram is reincarnation. "Don't worry, my old friend Jim. There is no end", the Zen master would say to the rock poet.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 78-10 Contradiction

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?


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 78


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☞«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.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 77-1 Bend a bow

Today's Tao

Heaven's Tao is like bending a bow! (Ch.77)


"I'm in Heaven... I'm in Heaven..."

Some call it a silly love song.

Others see a profound truth in the silly love song.

The point is: you are always in Heaven.

You don't go to Heaven because you are already there.

Your Heaven is "right here right now".

One thing has to be clearly understood.

Please do NOT think that you will go back to Tao after you finish your life or hologram.

This is wrong.

You are always "inside" Tao while projecting your holographic life because true You are Tao itself.

You never leave Tao.

You just project doubt.

Why do you do it?

You have to bend the bow when you put a string on it.

This is the key to answer the question, Lao Tzu says.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 77


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☞«Tao Te Ching» Key word comparison (11) / -Do nothing (treat things without interference) - Let's see how they translate 是以聖人処無為之事 行不言之教 in Chapter 2. / "Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech." On the left, «Tao Te Ching: The Way of Virtue» translated by James Legge. / "that's why a sage abides in the realm of nothing's own doing, living out that wordless teaching." On the right, «Tao Te Ching» translated by David Hinton.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 69-3 Retreat

Today's Tao

Our side dare not advance one inch, but retreat one foot. (Ch.69)


Don't try to advance.

Never mind retreating.

In Taoism, advance is retreat, and retreat is advance. (☞See Advance = Retreat 40-7)

If you want to go forward, go backward.

If you want to get something, give something.

This is the way a hologram functions.

There are two raisons d'être of a hologram:

1. To give us an opportunity to receive Love (=Tao) through the hologram.

2. To stimulate us to emit Love (=Tao).

This bilateral exchange of the fundamental energy Tao may explain why a hologram "seems" to work that way.

But remember?

There is no space in Tao.

There is neither distance nor direction.

How can you advance or retreat there?


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 69


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☞Some Japanese have contributed to the propagation of some Eastern ways of thinking abroad. The post-war consumers in Japan seem to have behaved totally contrarily to their principles. Now the Japanese post-consumer youngsters are taking the important roles of carrying the philosophical torch of their grandfathers. Read Masanobu Fukuoka's «The One-Straw Revolution» to find out his "Do nothing" farming. Michio Kushi has something to say about «The Cancer Prevention Diet».

Tao Te Ching Chapter 68-5 No competition

Today's Tao

This is called attainment by no competition. (Ch.68)


Why does Lao Tzu ask you not to compete or fight?

Because competition and fight are forms of resistance.

They are refusal of acceptance.

First, you accept the world, which is your hologram.

Second, you are one with Tao, that is to say, you remember that true You are Tao and your own self is just part of the hologram.

Third, remembering You = Tao is the attainment of Tao. This is also called Dark Depth Attainment 玄徳 [gen toku].

Fourth, while accepting your hologram, you emit the fundamental energy Tao, which is True You or which you can call Love.

Fifth, Tao, or Love, is out there. Now you go back to the first step and accept it through the hologram.

We keep this cycle.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 68


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☞The company's name Lotte was named after Charlotte Sophie Henriette Buff, the heroine of Goethe's «The Sorrows of Young Werther». Now the company owns two baseball clubs in Chiba, Japan and Busan, South Korea, and sells «Koala no march / The march of Koalas», or Lotte Koala Cookie Chocolate, which is believed to be one of the sweets most sought-after by tourists. Is this the result of a never-ending fight and competition? No, it is the happy ending of a love for baseball and sweets. Our beloved Lotte is always "the sweetheart of your mouth" (or our champions at heart).

Tao Te Ching Chapter 65-9 Perfect integration

Today's Tao

After that, you will reach Tao's perfect integration. (Ch.65)


Let's review Tao's perfect integration, or Big Natural Flow 大順 [tai jun], step by step.


1. You abandon analysis and intelligence.

2. You accept all, that is, all of your hologram while emitting the fundamental energy Tao (=Love).

3. The hologram finishes its role as a catalyst.

4. The hologram, including your own self and other beings, "return" to Tao and gets "re-integrated".

5. Your own self doesn't exist any more. (You remember that your own self does not exist as an independent entity from the beginning.)


This is "your" perfect integration with Tao.

In other words, you have attained Dark Depth.

It is Dark Depth Attainment 玄徳 [gen toku].

Attention!

The moment a phase finishes, another one begins.

There is no end.

Besides, time doesn't exist in Tao.

The multiple phases take place simultaneously.

Then, what can you do really?

Don't worry.

That's why they say: "Do nothing".

Just remember that you are totally integrated with Tao all the time.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 65


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☞Water never errs. Neither do you. All you need is a bit more confidence. Ask water for some help.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 65-8 Return to Tao

Today's Tao

You return to Tao with things. (Ch.65)


There are two key functions here.

1. "Return".

The word indicates the energy cycle.

This cycle is Tao, therefore, true You.

Everything returns to Tao.

This is Big Natural Flow, that is to say, Tao's perfect integration 大順 [taijun]. (☞See Chuang Tzu's teachings 42-8)


2. "With things".

The word "things" suggests a hologram.

The key is the preposition "with".

This implies a hologram's function as a catalyst.


Your mind and body are part of your hologram along with mountains, rivers, flowers, and stars, in short, with all other elements of what you see (and you cannot see).

All of them return to the neutral state of Tao (=the state before your hologram is projected, =Bumo misho izen).

What we call "one life" is the emission and return of a hologram.

But, remember there is no time in Tao.

The moment something begins, it ends.

The moment something ends, it begins.

No life, no end of life.

不生不滅 [fusho fumetsu].


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 65


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☞There was a band called "Japan". There is a band called "Tokio Hotel". A few decades ago, it seemed that Japan had abandoned being "Japan" and was transforming all its territory into "Tokyo". All the provincial areas wanted to be as sophisticated as Tokyo, and the country was on the verge of a successful transition from "lost Japan" to "Greater Tokyo". Old soldiers did not disappear easily, and now it seems that the pendulum has changed its direction completely. The fastest aging industrialized nation is creating a bigger and bigger mass of post-comsumers. The younger Japanese haven't got cash to spend for sure, but they are still happy because spending money is no longer "sexy" there.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 64-19 Excess

Today's Tao

He brings back people's excess to the state it was before. (Ch.64)


The kanji / Chinese character 過 [ka] signifies both "excess" and "past".

"Past" in the sense of "has been".

The thing that has been is the hologram that you have just received.

In Taoism, it is important to return this "has been" hologram to the state before it was projected.

How can we bring it back?

It's easy.

In the episode of 22-14 Return it!, simple Reverse Thinking is explained.

Read this entry with 22-4 Before parents' birth.

It will help you to better understand Reverse Thinking.

If you want to know about Tao's mechanism in terms of "return", the episode of 60-6 Returns to each other will be helpful.

Now you don't have to worry about your destiny.

You know how to bring it back.

(☞See Destiny 16-7)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 64


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☞Don't underestimate her. A geisha was an artist, an artist of love-making. Like a good lawyer, their service cost a fortune and no longer exists in the same manner in a democratized post-war "floating world". Artists of love have been replaced by novices of love. All we can do now retrospectively is to read the masterpieces about the subject written by artists in literature. An artist with a pen and an artist of love used to go hand in hand. If you are interested in the humane side of the profession, read Yasunari Kawabata's «Snow Country». The Onsen Geisha, Komako, was considered as an ideal feminine being. If you are curious about the business practice of the profession, check Kafu Nagai's «Rivalry». Both giants in modern Japanese literature practically lived these stories though they are fictional.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 61-7 Under big

Today's Tao

A small country takes a big country by going under the big country. (Ch.61)


Yesterday's sentence was:

"A big country takes a small country by going under the small country."


In Today's sentence Lao Tzu simply swaps the words "big" and "small".

The important thing is this interchangeability.

It doesn't matter if it's big or small.

They are just showing two points.

One goes under the other, and vice versa.

This is what the Yin Yang circle is symbolizing.

This intercourse is Tao.

It is Love.

Returning to Tao is sending Tao's energy to Tao.

Send it to Tao by going under Tao.

What does "going under Tao" mean?

It means "receiving Tao's energy through your hologram without resistance".

By assimilating it, another hologram can appear.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 61


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☞«House of the Sleeping Beauties» was written by Yasunari Kawabata, a Nobel Prize-winner, in 1961. It is about the aging male citizens who pay money to only sleep beside a young female body.
☞«Snow Country» is Kawabata's masterpiece. Its first publication was in 1935. But the author kept adding new chapters. In 1948, the novel reached the final form. The story took place before WW2. Now no Japanese man can possibly imagine doing the same thing in an expensive onsen ryokan/hotel.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 61-5 By stillness

Today's Tao

By stillness, she gets lower. (Ch.61)


Here I repeat Chuang Tzu's teachings.

"Don't move until you are forced to."

Please read and watch Tao by Matsumoto video blog / No hurry 17-6.


Lao Tzu says in Chapter 37:

"Don't desire and be still, and the world under the sky will stabilize itself".

(☞See Be still 37-5)


These are not asking you to fight to sit still.

No, not at all.

They are asking you to accept the hologram, or the world, in front of you as it is.

By stillness, by accepting all, the female gets passive.

Stillness means "going back to the root".

(☞See Stillness 16-6)


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 61


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☞Judo means "Soft Tao". The expression "Yawara no michi / The way of being soft" has become outdated, and its original idea seems to have been abandoned in the modern competition of the sport. Thanks to some girl practitioners, we can see a few remaining lights of this spirit. Please look at the colors and expressions of this manga «Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl» on the left. It is ironical that it will tell you more about the softness of Judo than the Judo matches in the Olympic Games. ☞On the right, it is a book on «The Hand Arts of Danzan-Ryu Jujutsu».

Tao Te Ching Chapter 60-6 Returns to each other

Today's Tao

Hence, the attainment returns to each other. (Ch.60)


There are two key concepts of Taoism here.

One is "each other" and the other is "return".

"Each other" suggests the two elements: Tao and a hologram, or the creator and the created, which can be regarded as "the stimulated and the stimulating".

"Return" is the principle of the Tao / hologram cycle.

Tao creates a hologram (=the world).

The hologram stimulates Tao.

The hologram returns to Tao.

Tao creates another hologram.

Please remember.

True You are Tao.

Therefore, you project one world.

The world stimulates you.

You accept the world with love (=Tao).

You project another world with more love.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 60


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☞Take off your mask, Japan! You no longer have to pretend as a modern industrialized county! Everyone knows that you have been living in the two decades of recession. Kunio Yanagita's works tell us about the facts the Japanese hesitate to admit. Shigeru Mizuki's manga «Gegege no Kitaro» will show you the adorable superstitions lying at the bottom of the Japanese collective psyche.

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 59-2 Return early

Today's Tao

Just don't waste any, and you will return early. (Ch.59)


Don't waste any; foods, materials, electricity, natural resources or even feelings and thoughts.

Don't waste life.

Your life is a beautiful hologram waiting for you to accept.

When you accept it, you receive Tao's energy through it.

When you appreciate it, you emit the energy to it.

That's how you return to Tao.

Returning to Tao is not denying your holographic reality in front of you;

on the contrary, you accept and love it.

Then, you will "return" to Tao easily.

You will simply remember that true You are Tao and you have never left it at all.


«Related Articles»
-Don't waste 59-1
-Return early 59-2
-Return and Repeat 59-3
-Repeat Attainment 59-4
-Cycle's end 59-5
-Never-ending cycle 59-6
-Forever 59-7
-Live eternally 59-8
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 59


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☞Lao Tzu asks you to be like dust. Dust has a certain connotation, which is not necessary bad if you don't have a big ego. Kobo Abe wrote «The woman in the Dunes». The story can be interpreted as a metaphor in this context. ☞Zen Buddhists say: "Buddha is a dry [excrement] stick". The expression has appalled many other Buddhists. Zen Buddhists just want to say: "All the holograms are Buddha's manifestation, which include even a dry [excrement] stick". They are always happy to use a "radical and cool" expression.

Tao Te Ching Chapter 58-7 Odd criterion

Today's Tao

A criterion returns to be odd. (Ch.58)


Why do we suffer from something?

Because we have criteria concerning health, beauty, social status, or whatever.

Having criteria and judging oneself is a form of resistance.

"But I am not perfect!"

Is that what you want to say?

Well, certainly a criterion blocks the natural flow of Tao.

It bothers Tao's cycle to turn around.

Then the criterion/resistance creates oddities in your hologram.

That's why you suffer.

But don't worry.

Remember?

Everything, including all the oddities, "returns" to Tao, the ultimate security.

Your suffering is just a catalyst.


«Related Articles»
-Dark Government 58-1
-Brilliant government 58-2
-Fortune = Misfortune 58-3
-Misfortune = Fortune 58-4
-Eternal cycle 58-5
-Criterion? 58-6
-Odd criterion 58-7
-Spooky 58-8
-Confused about time? 58-9
-Don't tear it! 58-10
-Kyoka (crazy song) hurts 58-11
-Straight = Bent 58-12
-Amida (Amitābha) shines 58-13
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 58


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☞It is difficult to imagine something that contributed to the recent improvement of gastronomy at the popular level in Japan as much as this series of manga «Oishinbo». Oishinbo signifies "a gourmet" in a unique way only invented for this manga. Now it is available in English. Please discover and enjoy the depth of the Japanese gastronomic art. The book on the left is titled «The Japanese cuisine». The one on the right is about Pub food / Izakaya.