Tao by Matsumoto

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Index
About
Contact
1. Gateway
2. Do not judge
3. Do Nothing
4. Tao's function
5. Hologram
6. Valley God
7. No Self
8. Be like Water
9. Don't Stay
10. Magic words
10a.Body Spirit
10b.Mirror DD
10c. Caution!
10d.HeavenGate
10e. DD Female
10f.DD Attain
[No Truth]
11. 30 spokes
12. Five Colours
13. Love Trouble
14. Tao is evasive
15. Man knew Tao
16. Go Back
17. Best way
18. Tao no use
19. Cleverness
20. Eat mother
21. Tao/essence
22. Return to Tao
23. No Noise last
24. Don't show off
25. Manifestation
26. Root
27. Love all
28. Uncarved block
29. A god's vessel
30. Result
31. Arms
32. Nameless
33. Self
34. State
35. Big's image
36. Reverse way
37. No desire
38. High attain
39. One
40. Laughable
41. Tao's move
42. 1-2-3
43. No existence
44. Attachment
45. Perfection
46. Be content
47. No outside
48. Reduce
49. No heart
50. Life
51. Attainment
52. Enlightenment
53. Thief's luxury
54. Learn Attain
55. Baby is safe
56. One with Tao
57. Intelligence
58. Government
59. Attain & cycle
60. Control
61. Country
62. Treasure
63. Use Tao
64. Easy
65. Integration
66. Lower yourself
67. Send Love
68. No fight
69. Enemy
70. Actor
71. Knowing
72. Fear
73. Heaven's net
74. Reincarnation
75. Starvation
76. Soft & weak
77. No excess
78. Resistance
79. Grudge
80. Small country
81. Summary
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Tao Te Ching videos by Naoto Matsumoto
Read Yama Uba the Zen play to find out how Zen functions!

 10. Magic words

[Chapter 10 / English Translation] - Click the line to watch the related video.
Can you make the body soul and the spirit soul embrace Tao?

And can you make them keep it with them?

Can you concentrate energy and be supple?

And can you be like a baby?

Can you clean the mirror of Dark Depth?

And can you leave it with no blemish?

Can you love people or govern a state without acting?

Heaven's gate opens and closes. Can you act female?

You know all four corners clearly. Are you capable of not knowing anything?

Give birth to it. Raise it.

Give birth, but don't possess it.

Let it work, but don't rely on it.

Be the chief, but don't control it.

It is called the attainment of Dark Depth.


Rapid Decoded
Forget the separation between your mind and body.

Remember you are Tao. Don't forget it.

Don't waste your fundamental energy by creating resistance.

Be supple.

Be like a baby.

Keep off your hologram.

Don't interfere in your hologram directly.

Love all. Your love can change everything without acting.

Get out of your hologram. Play in your hologram.

Be passive.

Space is illusory. So is time.

Have no knowledge.

Change your hologram by changing your thoughts.

Don't think your hologram is yours.

Let Tao do its work. Don't try to make Tao work for your own benefit.

Tao is always with you. Don't control it.

In fact, you are always controlling Tao without trying to control it.

Remembering this fact is called the attainment of Dark Depth.


Videos

- 10-1 Body soul & Spirit soul
- 10-2 Body, Spirit, Tao.
- 10-3 Supple
- 10-4 Like a baby
- 10-5 Mirror of Dark Depth
- 10-6 Blemish
- 10-7 Love people
- 10-8 Heaven's gate
- 10-9 Four corners
- 10-10 Raise it
- 10-11 Don't possess it
- 10-12 Let it work
- 10-13 Don't control it
- 10-14 Attainment of Dark Depth


Contents
-10a Body soul & Spirit soul
        Mind and body, are they really different? Where does one end and the other begin? When did we start thinking like this? To the eyes of some extraterrestrials, human beings look very odd a species.
        Even some oriental mystic masters, who seem to know all, are strange to say that mind and body are separated.
        What does Lao Tzu say about this?

-10b Mirror of Dark Depth
        "Mirror" is one of Zen monks' favourite metaphors. Lao Tzu associate it with Tao to explain the concept of holography. It is adviced to read Dark Depth first to understand this article better.

-10c Caution! You & Hologram
        This is very important. Don't think lightly of your hologram. Don't think Taoism and Zen are nihilistic. They are quite positive and active no matter how
contrary they look.

-10d Heaven's gate opens / closes
        Heaven is your playground. Play there as much as you want. Have plenty of fun there.
        "Where it the heaven?", you may want to ask.
Lao Tzu and Zen masters answer "it is not somewhere far. It is right here".

-10e Dark Depth Female
        "Be female." is the way to be one with Tao. It has nothing to do with men being effeminate. It is a powerful attitude to change your world. See also Dark Depth.

-10f Dark Depth Attainment
        If heaven's gate opens and closes right now right here, where is hell then?
        The answer is the same. "It can be right here and right now."
        Reading Dark Depth prior to this article is recommended though the important explanations are repeated here.

[Related Articles]
-Read also Tao Te Ching Chapter 56 How to be One with Tao.


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Read Yama Uba the Zen play


☞«I Ching» is called "Eki kyo 易経" in Japanese. The first Kanji / Chinese characters are supposed to have brought to Japan about the fifth century. «Kojiki 古事記» is the oldest Japanese history book written in the eight century. The book contains a few fascinating legends; the creation of islands, the arousing dance by a Japanese goddess, and the battle against an eight-tailed monster with among others.
 
Key Words
 1. Tao

 2. Hologram

 3. The floating world Ukiyo

 4. Play

 5. Gate

 6. Dark Depth

 7. Dark Depth Female

 8. Do nothing

 9. Body soul and Spirit soul

10. You and non-you

11. Yin Yang circle

12. No judgement

13. Resistance

14. Satori

15. Act without acting

16. Colour

(Last modified: 12 June 2011)

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  round?

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