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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
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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27. Love all

[Chapter 27 / English Translation] - click the line to watch the related video.
A good traveler leaves neither wheel tracks nor footsteps.

A good speech has no flaws.

Good reckoning doesn't need counting sticks.

Good shutting doesn't need either bars nor bolts, but no one can open it.

Good tying doesn't need either strings nor cords, but no one can untie it.


Therefore, the sage always helps people very well. So, he abandons no people.

He helps things very well. So, he abandons no things.

This is called entering enlightenment, which means knowing the constancy of Tao.

So, a good man is the teacher of a non-good one.

A non-good man is the resources of a good one.

If you don't value your teacher, if you don't love your resources, no matter how wise you are, you will be lost completely.

This is called the profound truth.


Rapid Decoded
<POINT> Love the world and accept all. That's why we are here.

When you do something according to Tao, you don't leave any traces.

When you say something according to Tao, your speech is perfect.

Don't calculate with limited human intelligence.

Don't try to protect something. It is the best way to lose it. If it is supposed to stay with you, it will be there. If not, let it go.

The best way to keep something with you is to let it go. Without strings or cords, everything is tied with Dark Depth. To use it, let everything go. It is called Dark Depth Female.


Therefore, you should accept and love others. They are characters in your hologram. You are the one who creates them. So, you cannot throw them away.

You should accept and love all what happens around you. By doing so (=turning the prayer wheel), you receive the fundamental energy through your hologram.

This is absolute acceptance called Satori in Zen Buddhism. Satori is not a hallucination or something like that. It is not just understanding the total acceptance, either. It is to actively receive the fundamental energy by accepting your hologram (=the world) and emitting it by loving the world (=your hologram). Thus, you can participate in the constant circulation of Tao the energy.

Do not judge. There is no good man.

Do not segregate. There is no bad man.

Value your hologram (=the world). Love the world (=your hologram). Don't be wise. Otherwise, you will be profoundly lost in the abyss of intellectualization.

This is the truth.



Videos

- 27-1 No traces
- 27-2 Good speech
- 27-3 Counting sticks
- 27-4 Bars nor bolts
- 27-5 Strings nor cords
- 27-6 Jimitokudo
- 27-7 Things = Prayers
- 27-8 Enter enlightenment
- 27-9 No good man
- 27-10 No bad man
- 27-11 Lost completely
- 27-12 Profound truth


[Related Articles]
-Reduce and reduce. When you study, you accumulate your knowledge everyday. When you do Tao, you reduce everything everyday. Don't study. No
intellectualization.

-Do not judge.


-Satori. If you accept all, you will reach there.

-Go back. Satori is not an altered state.


-Enlightenment. Sometimes, Satori is translated so in English.


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Read Yama Uba the Zen play


☞Who was a Geisha? Etymologically speaking, "gei 芸" means art; "sha 者", a person. She was an artist. An artist of what? She was an artist of love-making. Like any true artist, she was not just a business person. Of course, business was important, but it was not all. Besides, her art of love-making was not just a libidinous unification of the two bodies. It included music, dance, and sophisticated conversations about any subject. She even discussed love. She was not supposed to show her really self as a lawyer or a actor is not supposed to. Nevertheless, if she could not help it, she exposed her own fragile self. That was the very moment of sheer pleasure only available to the limited number of the privileged gentlemen. When Komako the Onsen - hot spa Geisha in Yasunari Kawabata's «Snow Country / Yukiguni» 川端康成「雪国」defenselessly showed her pure love to her client, she was as beautiful as white snow. On the other hand, the real professional Geishas in Kafu Nagai's «Rivalry / Udekurabe» 永井荷風「腕くらべ」took pride in their psychological love technique.
 
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

Help Wanted
-"Is a geisha truly a p,.........?"

  No, it means "artist", literally. She
  is an artist of the Taoist way of
  living.

-"What Does Nintendo mean?"


-"Frustrated?"


  Why don't you think the other way 
  round.       

-"I am not happy about how I look."

  There are a few things to think
  about.

-"Are you scared of seeing your
  reports?"

  To forget about statistics.


☞Love has many forms. The love story of the love stories in Japan is no doubt «The Tale of Genji / Genji Monogarari» by Lady Murasaki Shikibu 紫式部「源氏物語」. The irony here is that, to the modern Japanese girls who have started seriously believing that a prince is supposed to be blond, this Japanese aristocrat Genji's love affairs hardly seem to be "love" stories. The quest of perfect beauty and the creation of an ideal woman do not attract girls as much as a colorful princess and her beau in an American theme park in Tokyo do. It is interesting to read Ihara, Saikaku's «The Great Mirror of Male Love / Danshoku Ookagami» 井原西鶴「男色大鏡」while ignoring the context of homosexuality. You can find plenty of emotions universally shared by all the human beings beside the homage to Lady Murasaki's masterpiece. You never know, modern boys rather than girls will be the torch bearers of Japan's traditional "princess-hood" in kimono. In the old days, even before the arrival of samurai, Japanese male aristocrats were not stereotypically masculine. Now no longer samurai men live. It is about time we went back to the matriarchal basic.


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