Tao by Matsumoto

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23. Noises don't last

[Chapter 23 / English Translation] - click the line to watch the related video.
Saying no words makes things come about by themselves.

Therefore, a noisy high wind doesn't last all morning.

A noisy downpour doesn't last all day.

Who is doing these? Heaven and earth are.

How can man keep on doing it for a long time if heaven and earth cannot do it.


Therefore, those who act according to Tao are one with Tao.

Those who act according to the attainment of Tao are one with the attainment of Tao.

Those who act according to the loss of its attainment are one with the loss of its attainment.

When you don't have enough faith, you doubt it.


Rapid Decoded
<POINT> If you don't have enough faith, you doubt. When you doubt, you talk too much.

You don't have to say anything because what you want will come about by itself. Especially, you had better not try to act on anything directly. This is the key element of Dark Depth Female.

Nature is a very good example. A noisy high wing doesn't last long.

A noisy downpour doesn't last long, either.

Who is doing these? Nature is. Nevertheless, this is rather a figure of speech. Be aware that you are the one who create the nature by projecting your hologram in the mind. There is no objective world outside you.

The figurative expression continues. Essentially, it says, "Your own self (not true You) is part of the hologram. You cannot affect other objects there as they can't affect each other".


Therefore, if you receive with gratitude the energy of Tao through your hologram (=the world), you are one with Tao, which means that you know you are Tao.

If you know that you are Tao, you are in the state of the attainment of Tao, which is called Satori in Zen Buddhism.

If you have forgotten that you are Tao, you are stuck in the hologram (=the world) you create. This is called "the loss of the attainment of Tao 失得 (徳)" and "being lost (迷い [mayoi] in Japanese)" in Zen Buddhism in Japan.

Believing or having faith is to accept all. When you don't have enough faith, you resist the total acceptance of your hologram (=the world). Then, your resistance creates some  images (not only tangible objects but also intangible feelings like doubts) that bother you. These hindrances are there in your hologram (=the world), not in order to make you suffer, but to lead you to the attainment of Tao. In Buddhism, it is called Bonno soku bodai 煩悩即菩提 ("Being lost is justly Bodhi, or the spiritual awakening" in English).

In conclusion, if you don't have enough faith, you doubt. When you doubt, you talk too much. In any case, don't worry.


Videos

- 23-1 Say no words
- 23-2 High wind II
- 23-3 Downpour
- 23-4 Heaven's responsibility
- 23-5 Man's responsibility
- 23-6 According to Tao
- 23-7 Satori = Attainment
- 23-8 Attainment loss
- 23-9 Bonno soku bodai


[Related Articles]
-Nikko's 3 monkeys. "See no evil. Hear no evil. Say no evil."

-Dark Depth Attainment. It is about the attainment of Tao.





Read Yama Uba the Zen play

☞Listen to the noise without noises. Hear the sound of silence. Touch it as Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sang! What is that sound? Is it like «The Sound of the Mountain» as Yasunari Kawabata wrote? At the moment of writing, Paul Simon was 23 years old; Yasunari Kawabata, 55 years old. The sound changes as you get older, it seems.
  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: 30 August 2011)