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30. Result

[Chapter 30 / English Translation] - click the line to watch the related video.
Helping human leaders by Tao is far from forcing the world under the sky by soldiers.

This thing likes to return.

Where a division encamps, brambles will grow.


Being a good man is just a result.

Thereby, don't dare to force any.

It's just a result. Don't show off.

It's just a result. Don't boast.

It's just a result. Don't be arrogant.

It's just a result. Say you couldn't help it.

It's just a result. Don't force any.


If a thing is strong, it gets old.

This is called being against Tao.

If you are against Tao, you come to an early end.


Rapid Decoded
<POINT> There is neither good nor bad in Tao. Don't care about result.

"Human leaders" means "people". "The world under the sky" means "your hologram". "By soldiers" means "by force", therefore "to act directly". So, the first sentence signifies "Helping people doesn't mean that you act on them directly in your hologram".

Tao likes to return. Your hologram (=the world) returns to the state before it is projected (=Bumo misho izen). It is the state of Tao.

Don't intervene directly as some nations use military forces. If you act directly on your hologram, you will create "brambles" in your mind. The projection of your hologram in the mind doesn't harmonised with a direct action. This creates a contradictory mental state, sort of a mental short circuit.


There is neither good nor bad in Tao. Don't care about result.

So, don't act on any directly.

Even if it is a good result, don't show off.

Even if it is a good result, don't boast.

Even if it is a good result, don't be arrogant.

Even if it is a good result, just say, "I couldn't help it".

Don't care about the result. Don't act on it directly. Use Dark Depth Female and do nothing.


If you understand the mechanism of Yin Yang cycle, you know the danger of being strong. A strong thing gets old much earlier than others. It is exactly like an athlete using steroids.

It is not only being strong. Looking for any kind of excess is against Tao. So is the obsession with result.

Result is not important at all. Process is important. It is turning your prayer wheel, turning your hologram, turning the world with Love. This is how Tao works. The things against the mechanism don't last long.


Videos

- 30-1 Force by soldiers
- 30-2 Tao likes to return
- 30-3 Brambles
- 30-4 Good man
- 30-5 Don't force
- 30-6 Don't show off
- 30-7 Don't boast
- 30-8 No arrogance
- 30-9 Can't help it
- 30-10 Force nobody
- 30-11 Strong steroids
- 30-12 Against Tao
- 30-13 Early end


[Related Articles]
-Yin Yang circle. Try not to think Yin and Yang are two different entities.

-Male and female. Life is a prayer wheel.

-Do not judge. Judging is resisting. Resistance is a waste of energy.

-Summary. "A knowledgeable man doesn't know. The sage doesn't accumulate. Heaven's Tao give benefits and does not damage any", says Lao Tzu.





Read Yama Uba the Zen play

☞One can translate the name of «Makura no Soshi 枕草子» as "The Pillow Book". It is not linguistically wrong or immorally distorted for commercial purposes. The author, Sei Shonagon 清少納言, who was born more than one thousand years ago, might be quite happy to have this title with tongue in cheek. When you read the book, you cannot help imagining that she was a cheeky intellectual maid in the imperial palace.
  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