Showing posts with label rule. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rule. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Tao Te Ching Chapter 65-6 Miracle rule


Today's Tao

Knowing these rules is called Dark Depth Attainment. (Ch.65)


A: "Master Bonbon, I wanna know the rules of magic Tao. 'Dark Deep Attachment', you call?"

B: "Dark Depth Attainment, idiot! Gentoku the Dark Depth Attainment! This oriental mystic, magical, enigmatic power rules the world."


Master Bonbon, stop pretending to be an exotic mystic. You are fooling yourself.

Besides, Dark Depth Attainment is not the attainment of a magical power.

Or rather, everyday life is a miracle if you are looking for one.


Zen Master Dogen expresses it as:

"Miracle is the tea and rice of a Buddhist".

神通は仏家の茶飯なり

(Jinzu 神通, «Shobogenzo»)


Everything that takes place in your hologram is a miracle.

Therefore, all the stories about miracle are true because you are the one who projects them.

Forget your intelligence.

Then, you will see that every moment is a miracle.

This is the rule of miracle.


«Related Articles»
-Ignorant 65-1
-Too intelligent 65-2
-Harmful intelligence 65-3
-Not by intelligence 65-4
-Rules of Tao 65-5
-Miracle rule 65-6
-Miracle attainment 65-7
-Return to Tao 65-8
-Perfect integration 65-9
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 65


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☞We have two famous artists called "Banana" in Japan. One is the author of «Kitchen»: Banana Yoshimoto. The other is a great Haiku poet who supposedly had a Ninja-like mission for the Shogun government while traveling the northern independent fiefdoms in Japan: Matsuo, Basho. His first name "Basho" means a banana plant in Japanese. He is the author of «The Narrow Road to the Deep North / Oku no Hoso Michi». The book certainly inspired Edward Bond, and he wrote the play "Narrow Road to the Deep North".

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Tao Te Ching Chapter 65-5 Rules of Tao


Today's Tao

Both of them are rules. (Ch.65)


Don't try to control your hologram, which is what you call "the world".

Don't control it especially by intelligence.

It is the rule to follow if you want to be one with Tao.

But wait a minute!

True You are Tao.

You are one with Tao from the beginning.

If so, you don't have to make a particular effort to follow the rule.

You are following it.

You are not using intelligence.

You are not trying to control your hologram.

That's it. That's the point.

No matter how much you think otherwise, you have neither intelligence nor desire of control.

Don't worry.

You are perfectly integrated with Tao.

So, do nothing.

Just accept your hologram.


«Related Articles»
-Ignorant 65-1
-Too intelligent 65-2
-Harmful intelligence 65-3
-Not by intelligence 65-4
-Rules of Tao 65-5
-Miracle rule 65-6
-Miracle attainment 65-7
-Return to Tao 65-8
-Perfect integration 65-9
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 65


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☞Is it more difficult to talk about the way of Samurai when a warrior is no longer needed? Read «Hagakure» along with «Yukio Mishima on Hagakure». Both were written when arms were more or less considered a hindrance. The original «Hagakure» about 1716. More than 100 years had passed after the period of civil wars in Japan ended. Yukio Mishima narrowly "escaped" the draft just before the end of World War 2 because of some health reasons. He published «Hagakure Nyumon (The introduction to Hagakure)» in 1967 in Japan. «Sun and Steel» in 1968. More than twenty years had passed. It was just twelve years before the release of Nintendo's Game Watch, the predecessor of their DS.
☞The English translation of «Hagakure Nyumo» was published under the title«Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan» or «The Way of Samurai».

Friday, December 11, 2009

Tao Te Ching Chapter 19-4 Taoist investment



Today's Tao

About these three things, the words don't seem to be enough. Therefore, I am forced to add something. (Ch.19)


In the last three episodes, we have been discussing; discernment and intellect; morality and rules; cleverness and profit.

Is Lao Tzu a Nostradamus of financial crises or emotional bankruptcies?

He doesn't care.

He doesn't wanna be a prophet.

He just wants to tell us that all of them are part of your hologram.

Stop looking for an objective world outside you, please.

But, if you really need Taoist investment tips, I will tell you about them secretly.

Ha, ha, ha, ha. (a Kyogen actor's laughter)


«Related Articles»
-No discernment 19-1
-Morality of love 19-2
-No profit, no thieves 19-3
-Taoist investment 19-4
-Essence = Uncarved block 19-5
-Reduce desire 19-6
-Don't learn 19-7
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 19


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Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Tao Te Ching Chapter 19-2 Morality of love


Today's Tao

Destroy "morality of love". Throw away its rules. And people will recover children's filial duty and parents' merciful "love". (Ch.19)


"I love you because my moral forces me to."

"I love you because you are my parent and my filial duty forces me to."

"I love you because you are my child and my mercy forces me to."

Do we really want someone in front of us to tell so?

Love all. Period.

Accept everything without thinking about moral, duty, mercy, or even the word "love".


«Related Articles»
-No discernment 19-1
-Morality of love 19-2
-No profit, no thieves 19-3
-Taoist investment 19-4
-Essence = Uncarved block 19-5
-Reduce desire 19-6
-Don't learn 19-7
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 19


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Friday, January 16, 2009

Tao Te Ching Chapter 18-1 Tao out of use


Today's Tao

After big Tao has fallen out of use, we have "morality of love" and its rules. (Ch.18)


In Taoism, the words like morality and rules are considered pejorative.

For they are not natural and created by a society.

If you are one with Tao, you don't need any frame to control your conduct.

Any artificial control is fake.


«Related Articles»
-Tao out of use 18-1
-Hypocrisy 18-2
-Merciful "love"? 18-3
-Loyal ministers 18-4
-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 18
-Kawabata's Onsen Geisha Morality is very immoral in Taoism. In this sense, a Geisha is the purest form of womanhood.


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