Tao by Matsumoto

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13. Love your Trouble

[Chapter 13 / English Translation] - Click the line to watch the related video.
Favour and disgrace are like excitement.

Big trouble is like your body.

What does it mean by saying that favour and disgrace are like excitement?

You regard favour as something good.

You regard disgrace as something bad.

When you get it, it excites you.

When you lose it, it excites you.

This is called that favour and disgrace are like excitement.

What does it mean by saying that big trouble is like your body?

I have big trouble because I have my body.

If I don't have my body, I don't have any trouble.

Therefore, if you act as if your body is the world, you can entrust yourself with the world.

If you love the world as you love your body, you find the world inside you.


Rapid Decoded
If someone does you a favour, you feel something. If someone disgraces you, you feel something, too.

Big trouble and your mind and body are the same. They are all your hologram.

What does it mean by the former?

You judge favour as something good, but good and bad don't exist in the world of Tao as they don't in Nature.

You judge disgrace as something bad, but judgement doesn't exist in the world of Tao like a baby's mind.

When you get something, you may have a positive feeling.

When you lose something, you may have a negative feeling.

Favour and disgrace are the same in nature. They are, after all, your personal judgement. You judge things only to stimulate your emotion.

What does it mean by "Big trouble and your mind and body are the same"?

It's simple. Your big trouble exists because you have your own self. If you don't have your self, your big trouble does not exist. You project your trouble, and your trouble projects you. Without your trouble, that it to say, your outside world, you do not exist. All of them are your hologram.

If you don't take your own self too seriously, all your troubles will disappear. Your feelings are like clouds in the sky. You don't have to feel responsible for them. So are your troubles.

Therefore, treat the rest of the world as if it is the extension of your own self. You can change the world as you like since it it your hologram you create. You can do it by accepting the world as it is and trying not to influence it directly. It is called Dark Depth Female.

Love the world as you love yourself, and you will see it transform itself because it is your hologram. Then, you will remember that you are Tao itself.


Videos

- 13-1 Excitement
- 13-2 Big trouble
- 13-3 Favour and disgrace
- 13-4 Favour
- 13-5 Disgrace
- 13-6 Get
- 13-7 Lose
- 13-8 Like excitement
- 13-9 Trouble = Body?
- 13-10 Trouble and body
- 13-11 No body, no trouble
- 13-12 Your body = World
- 13-13 Love the world


[Related Articles]
-Do not judge. The chapter is about the uselessness of judgement.

-See You and non-you if you need more explanation about "You project your trouble, and your trouble projects you".

-Baby is safe. Bees, scorpions, and vipers don't sting Baby. Violent animals don't attack Baby. Eagles and hawks don't hit Baby.

-Do Nothing. You don't have to feel guilty if you do nothing.





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  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: 17 November 2011)