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| Watch Today's Tao Video! Everyday a new entree!Tao Te Ching videos by Naoto Matsumoto  34. Tao's state[Chapter 34 / English Translation] - click the line to watch the related video.Big Tao is like flooded water, going left and right, and all over.
Thanks to Tao, everything appears. It doesn't exclude anything.
Tao accomplishes its tasks and has no name.
Tao loves and raises everything, but doesn't try to be its master.
Tao never has any desire, so we can name it Small.
All go back to Tao, but it doesn't try to be their master, so we can call it Big.
Therefore, the sage can achieve this Big because he never tries to be Big. Thus, he can achieve this Big.
Rapid Decoded
Tao is omnipresent. You find it at any part of the world (=your hologram).
The fundamental energy Tao creates your hologram. Everything is a
manifestation of Tao. That's why we must not judge any. Accept all as
they are.
Tao's task is to exist. To do so, it needs the constant recreation of
itself. To describe this, we use the metaphor of Yin Yang circle. The
world is a hologram, which is a catalyst to keep the circle (=Tao the
fundamental energy) turning around. The thing with a name belong to the
hologram. Tao doesn't. It refuses any name, even the name "Tao".
Tao is love. They are two names for the same energy. This energy
creates itself constantly. "Everything" in the world is a hologram and
catalyst, which Tao "raises" in order to stimulate itself for its
constant recreation (=reincarnation). Nevertheless, Tao doesn't control
your hologram. It is just its source. You are the one who controls your
hologram, and are part of it.
Tao doesn't have any idea, not to mention intention. It is not
something like destiny that controls your life. Tao is the fundamental
energy. You use the energy to project your hologram (=the world), so
you are the one who creates your destiny. In this sense, Tao doesn't
have the least control over anything, so let's call it Small.
"Everything" is your hologram, which comes out of Tao. Having
accomplished its task as a catalyst to stimulate you to emit more of
the fundamental energy (=Tao, =Love), your hologram goes back to Tao,
where everything is in the state before it has a form. It is kind of a
neutral state. It is the chaos that is the origin of everything, where
even time and space don't exist. Tao includes all, so let's call it Big.
Therefore, you can be one with Tao by never trying to be one with Tao.
This explains very well why one cannot achieve Satori while he retains
the wish to do so. If you understand how Tao functions, it is easy to
be one with Tao. By not having any intention to control anything, you
can minimise your resistance. Then the transformation of your hologram
will be accelerated to the maximum. Your "self", which is a hologram,
will go back to Tao, where everything is in the state before it is
projected.
Videos
- 34-1 Flooded water
- 34-2 No exclusion
- 34-3 Tao's task
- 34-4 Love = Tao
- 34-5 Small
- 34-6 Big's chaos
- 34-7 Achieve Big
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| ☞Who do you think is the best novelist ever in Japan? Some might say Murasaki shikibu 紫式部 (Lady Murasaki) who wrote «the Tale of Genji 源氏物語». Other might say Yukio Mishima 三島由紀夫, the author of fantastic «Spring Snow». Haruki Murakami 村上春樹, the author of «Norwegian Wood», is an up-and-coming star in Japanese literature. It is a question without one definite answer. So, let's ask ourselves another question. Which Japanese novelist would you miss the most if he or she had not written any works? My personal answer is Yasunari Kawabata, and I think that many admirers of Japanese literature share the opinion.
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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No, it means "artist", literally. She
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☞Once the Japanese word Geisha 芸者 was a pejorative. After Kawabata's invention of the heroine Komako 駒子, the word has gained some divine power. Komako the Onsen geisha 温泉芸者 (hot spa geisha) is the symbol of the pure and, therefore, sacred womanhood in the collective consciousness of many Japanese and non-Japanese. "Not all the Japanese, though", I have to admit. Mishima might have preferred a samurai boy to a geisha girl. Murakami may fancy a glass of Dry Martini with the author of «the Cather in the Rye» more than having Sake with Yasunari Kawabata, served by a Komako at a onsen ryokan 旅館 (Japanese style inn) in the snow. But look at young Japanese boys hanging around in Akihabara who adore girls in a Maid cafe or a Costume Play cafe. Aren't they looking for a modern Komako in a fantasized costume? Thank you, Mr. Kawabata. We are very glad that you wrote «Snow Country / Yukiguni 雪国».
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