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16. Go Back
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Do emptiness perfectly.
Guard stillness firmly.
All the material beings grow together.
I see them go back again.
Though things grow thick, respectively they go back to their root.
Going back to the root is called stillness.
This is called going back to their destiny.
Going back to the destiny is called constancy.
Learning constancy is called enlightenment.
If you don't learn constancy, you will act stupidly and a calamity will happen.
If you know constancy, you can accept it.
Acceptance is the public.
The public is a king.
A king is heaven.
Heaven is Tao.
Tao is eternal.
The body decomposes, but Tao has no danger.
Rapid Decoded
Accept all completely with no condition.
Do not act until it is really necessary.
All the things you see (material things and the rest; even your own self; past or future; space) are created here and now.
But all the elements in your hologram go back to their source, which is Tao the fundamental energy. What you see is its manifestation. You receive the energy through it.The more you think about something, the more energy you feed to your
hologram. Then, it develops. Mutually holograms create (define) each other. You create (define) others. Others create (define) you. But, in fact, all of them are the
same because it is the fundamental energy Tao. Don't be misled by the
word "go back". There is no time in Tao. Time exists only in your head.
Everything happens simultaneously. Even the future and the past are
being created now.
Switching the cause and the result (Reverse Thinking) will help you
reach (or go back to) the state of stillness, which is the state before
things are projected in your hologram. The state is called Bumo misho izen in Zen Buddhism. Reaching the state (or remembering the state) is
called Satori by Zen Buddhists.
"Destiny" is a misleading, but useful word. In principle, you are the
one who creates your destiny (or so-called reality) in your hologram.
Nevertheless, if you think that you are responsible for it and obliged
to act directly on it, you are mistaken. You had better not act
directly on your hologram. Let it flow by accepting all. In this sense,
the idea that a god is responsible for your destiny is a useful device.
By thinking so, you can suppress your obsession to act, or do
something. You don't have to do anything. You just accept all. Then,
your hologram will transform itself. Don't worry.
Tao has no time. Only you have the concept of time in your head. So,
Tao is constant. By "Reverse thinking", you can reach (or go back to)
Tao, which is constant. You are constant.
If you remember you are Tao, which is constant, it is called Satori ("enlightenment" in English).
The word "enlightenment" is misleading as well. Satori has nothing to
do with "light". It may give you an impression that Satori is a kind of
hallucination or an altered state. It is disastrous to be stuck in the
vain pursuit. That's why Zen masters say, "If you try to reach Satori,
you will never get there".If you know Tao is eternal and exists everywhere in your hologram, it is not difficult to accept all what happens around you.
If you accept all, you will see that individuality is an illusion. Your
own self disappears. Then, you can tell that you are out of your
hologram and one with Tao.
If you know you are out of your hologram and one with Tao, you can tell that you are the one who is creating your hologram.
If you know that you are the one who is creating the hologram, you can tell that you are the hologram itself.
If you know that you are the hologram, you can tell that the hologram is Tao, that is to say, you are Tao.
Tao is eternal because it is the origin of everything. It means that you are eternal.
Your life is a hologram, which functions as a catalyst to have you emit
more of the fundamental energy Tao. It doesn't matter if you lose your
hologram, or life. After all, it is just a trigger. The objective is to
emit more energy, in other words, to love more since love is another
name of Tao. It doesn't matter what you love. Just love it, and love it
more.
Videos- 16-1 Do emptiness
- 16-2 Guard stillness
- 16-3 Material beings
- 16-4 Go back
- 16-5 Root
- 16-6 Stillness
- 16-7 Destiny
- 16-8 Constancy
- 16-9 Satori
- 16-10 Calamity
- 16-11 Know constancy?
- 16-12 Public
- 16-13 King
- 16-14 King = Heaven
- 16-15 Heaven = Tao
- 16-16 Eternal
- 16-17 The body decomposes[Related Articles]
-Reverse Thinking. Let's
think everything the other way round. Swap the cause and the result.
Then, you can see the true relationship between them. You will find a
simplified solution in life.
-Satori. In fact, this enigmatic Japanese word is very simple. It is easy to comprehend and practice. Don't be fooled by the word.
-Love all. Satori is absolute acceptance.
-Enlightenment. Sometimes, Satori is translated so in English.
-Return to Tao. The idea of returning is very important in Taoism.
 Read Yama Uba the Zen play | |
| ☞The world is floating. This is the way the Japanese used to look at life. Geisha girls and yakuza men were dwellers in Uki-yo 浮世, the floating world. So, Japanese prints Ukiyo-e 浮世絵 are the pictures of an ephemeral floating world. ☞Tattoos, Irezumi 入れ墨 or "Shisei 刺青" as novelist Junichiro Tanizaki 谷崎潤一郎 named one of his first successful short stories, could be a distant memories of the Southern Pacific islands from which some of our ancestors came.
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
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