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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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47. No outside

[Chapter 47 / English Translation] - click the line to watch the related video.
Without getting out of the door, you know the world under the sky.

Without looking out of the window, you see Heaven's Tao.

The farther you go away from it, the less of it you know.

That's why the sage doesn't go but know, doesn't see but know, and doesn't act but accomplish.


Rapid Decoded
Although true You are Tao, your own self is part of your hologram (=the world under the sky). Your own self cannot exist outside the hologram. Nevertheless, it can learn that the world is your hologram which you project in the mind. The world exists inside you, not outside.

You don't have to get out of your hologram (=the world) because you can see Tao's manifestation everywhere in there. "Heaven" suggests your hologram. "Heaven's Tao" signifies "your hologram is a manifestation of Tao". However, it is a bit difficult to see it this way while you are deeply attached to your hologram.

"The farther you go", the less you learn. It illustrates Tao's mechanism. The bigger it looks, the more trifle it is in your hologram. National politics and international affairs seem enormous, but can you really see them? All you can see are limited to a monitor or a newspaper. One should know it is the true size of them. The closer it is, the more important it is to you. Who is the closest to you?

You don't have to go anywhere to know what's going on because you are the one who projects it in your hologram. You don't have to analyse things only to make them more complicated. You don't have to do anything in order to make the perfect world "better". If you are not happy about the world (=your hologram), it is you who has to change, not the world. Stop judging.


Videos / YouTube playlist

- 47-1 No outside
- 47-2 Not out of Self
- 47-3 Kensho Jobutsu / No away
- 47-4 Accomplish with no act


[Related Articles]
-Manifestation. Tao turns around like a prayer wheel in a Tibetan temples.

-Reverse Thinking. The farther, the smaller. The closer, the bigger. Take good care of the ones close to you.


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Read Yama Uba the Zen play


☞Gyasi sings beautifully the song of «Forbidden Colors». This is the theme of «Senjo no meriikurisumasu 戦場のメリークリスマス / Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence /  Furyo». David Bowie, Takeshi Kitano 北野武, and Ryuichi Sakamoto 坂本龍一 acted in the film directed by Nagisa Oshima 大島渚. Ryuichi Sakamoto composed the piece.
 
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

(Last modified: 13 November 2011)

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☞Yukio Mishima 三島由紀夫 wrote «Forbidden Colors / Kinjiki 禁色». Ryuichi Sakamoto composed a musical piece with the same name for Nagisa Oshima's «Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence». Please enjoy the sample music, by clicking the advertisement on the right. Once you hear the tune, it is hard to forget the melody. Color / iro / shiki 色 implies lust in Japanese. Prohibition sometimes stimulates the pleasure of the forbidden lust.


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