Today's Tao
The sage doesn't accumulate. (Ch.81)
In Chapter 48, Lao Tzu says:
"When you study, you accumulate your knowledge everyday.
When you do Tao, you reduce everything every day." (☞See Reduce 48-1)
There are two important ways to look at reducing.
First, reduce your resistance. (☞See Tao Te Ching / Chapter 78 / Resistance)
Our raison d'être is to maximize the circulation of Tao's energy.
Accept everything as it is.
Be like water. (☞See Tao Te Ching / Chapter 8 / Be like water)
Use Dark Depth Female, 玄牝 [gen pi].
Second, reducing is increasing.
This is what Yin Yang circle is telling you.
In Chapter 36, Lao Tzu shows us some examples.
Stretch = Shrink
Weak = Strong
Decline = Prosperity
Give = Take
Why don't you use Reverse Thinking?
This is a good way to activate Dark Depth Female.
How?
The easiest example may be:
"Instead of thanking Tao for letting you live, live to thank Tao".
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Lao Tzu answers your question!
☞«Recommended Books 14» Laday Murasaki (Murasaki Shikibu)'s «The Tale of Genji
» is strongly recommended. No Japanese has ever written a better novel. Many aspiring writers, medieval or modern, tried hard to create a better one, but in vain. The public domain e-book on the left
has some selections from «The Tale of Genji». It is about a man who adored his mother, seduced his mother-in-law who looked exactly like his mother, and found a little girl who looked like his mother, raised and made her an ideal woman, and married her. The novel was written about 1000 A.D.. The e-book on the right is a full-length version translated by Royall Tyler. There is another version translated by Edward G. Seidensticker
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. / "Therefore the Sage acts by doing nothing and teaches without speaking." On the right, «Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching» translated by 
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» can be translated as the Great Learning for women. It is a samurai version of «
» for girls and young women. The book was published in 1716 and based on Kaibara, Ekken's teachings. Yukichi Fukuzawa, the gentleman on Japan's 10,000 yen bill, wrote a modern and democratic version of it, called «The New Great Learning for Women / Shin Onnna Daigaku». ☞«
», which is a collection of translated works of Kaibara, Ekken by Ken Hoshino, includes «The Philosophy of Pleasure / Rakukun». 
. The name of the world-famous monster is 
. He lives in the virtual world of the video game 
, in case you don't know it. Monsters and robots are not enemies in Japan. They are friends that console the hearts and souls of tired Japanese workers, students, and children, who more desperately than ever want to leave this reality for a virtual one. Nevertheless, it is not appropriate to blame technology for their daydreaming because the wish of escape is something rather "traditional" there. Please look at the samurai-like man on the left. He is in fact a fisherman called «
». He is riding a turtle, which is taking him to a "Paradise under the Sea". To modern-day Hawaii, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? It doesn't matter. The turtle is surely taking a tired Japanese worker to the paradise to which his ancestors once belonged.
», Robert M. Pirsig tells us about the father/son relationship and the man/nature tie. On the other hand, in «
», the story tells us about life, which is sometimes synonymous to Zen.
» in 1900. Bushido signifies "The way of Samurai / Tao of Samurai". Yamamoto, Tsunetomo was a real Samurai and "wrote" «
» about 1716. Hagakure signifies "Hidden by the leaves".
», which is one of the useful preparatory reading materials before you challenge oriental philosophies. He also wrote «
». 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.
