Tao by Matsumoto

11. 30 spokes 1 hub

[Chapter 11 / English Translation] - Click the line to watch the related video.
Thirty spokes share one hub.

Thanks to this emptiness, the wheel is useful.

You knead clay, and you make a cup.

Thanks to this emptiness, the cup is useful.

You cut out doors and windows, and you make a room.

Thanks to this emptiness, the room is useful.

Thus, something can be useful because nothingness is working.


Rapid Decoded
Imagine you are in the middle of a movie house where they project images 360° around you.

Thanks to this hologram, you can perceive the world.

You think things are tangible.

But, without a holographic image created by your brains, you cannot feel the sensation of touching them.

You think spaces are empty.

But, no space is free of any magnetic field.

Without energies, the world cannot be sustained.

In conclusion, material beings are, in fact, illusion. But the illusion is important because it functions as a catalyst. It stimulates us to emit more of the fundamental energy Tao. Thanks to the energy, material beings are projected.


Videos

- 11-1 30 spokes
- 11-2 Wheel
- 11-3 Clay
- 11-4 Cup
- 11-5 Doors and windows
- 11-6 Room
- 11-7 Nothing is working


[Related Articles]
-Yin Yang circle. The cycling and re-cycling of the fundamental energy Tao is called Yin Yang circle. Be careful. They are one, not two different entities.

-What's a hologram. Read about Chuang tzu's excellent metaphor of holography. It is about the frog in a well.

-A god's vessel. The Kanji / Chinese character 器 [ki / utsuwa / qì] signifies a few things: a vessel, a tool, and the capacity of a person among others. In this Chapter 11 / 30 spokes 1 hub, it is translated as a cup. In Chapter 29 / A god's vessel, a vessel.

-Small country. In Chapter 80 / Small Country, the character 器 is also translated as a vessel, which symbolizes a hologram.





Read Yama Uba the Zen play

☞ Hermann Hesse's «Beneath the Wheel» was written in 1906, and is highly recommended to understand Eastern philosophies with a Western mind, along with his «Siddhartha» written in 1922. ☞Miyamoto Musashi's «A Book of Five Rings» 宮本武蔵「五輪の書」 is supposed to have been written about 1645. The long period of domestic warfare had ended and the peaceful era of 230 years had already started.
  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