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54. Learn Attainment

[Chapter 54 / English Translation] - click the line to watch the related video.
A thing well built cannot be pulled out.

A thing well embraced doesn't fall off.

By doing so, descendants never cease to worship.


Learn it in the body, and its attainment is true.

Learn it in the family, and its attainment is abundant.

Learn it in the village, and its attainment lasts.

Learn it in the country, and its attainment is rich.

Learn it in the world under the sky, and its attainment is omnipresent.


Therefore, see the body through the body.

See the family through the family.

See the village through the village.

See the country through the country.

See the world under the sky through the world under the sky.

Why do I know what's going on in the world under the sky?

It's because of this.


Rapid Decoded
Tao is deeply rooted in everything, so you cannot "pull it out". It exists in everything.

Everything "embraces" Tao. Everything has it. No one can remove it from anything.

Tao is the mother and her "descendants" are your hologram. They "never cease to" be the medium for the fundamental energy Tao to cycle.


Practice Tao's attainment in your body, that is to say, "Receive Tao's energy through your hologram and emit the energy from your body (which is part of your hologram, too)".

Accept your family as they are. This is one way to receive Tao's energy. Love them and re-circulate the energy. The energy emitted by you will be abundant.

Accept the people around you as they are. Then, Tao's energy cycles. It keeps on cycling forever.

Don't criticise politicians or people in the media. "The country" is much smaller than you think it is. Just accept and love them. Don't cut the "rich" flow of Tao's energy by getting upset.

Accept the world as it is because it is your hologram which you project in your mind. In every sphere of your hologram, Tao exists, waiting to be received.


Therefore, see Tao through your body. It is a manifestation of Tao.

See Tao through your family. They are a manifestation of Tao.

See Tao through the people around you.

See Tao through the state.

See Tao through your hologram.

You know everything in the world.

It's because you are the one who creates it.


Videos / YouTube playlist

- 54-1 Well built
- 54-2 Embrace
- 54-3 Descendants
- 54-4 Body
- 54-5 Family
- 54-6 Village
- 54-7 Country
- 54-8 World
- 54-9 See the body
- 54-10 See the family
- 54-11 See the village
- 54-12 Bodhidharma from the West / See the country
- 54-13 Jin juppo kai / See the world
- 54-14 Why telepathy?
- 54-15 Because of Satori


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Read Yama Uba the Zen play

☞Do not leave Japan without tasting Ramen noodles. Japan's national obsession for the perfection of the Ramen dish is a Zen attitude reincarnated in modern-day life, which you can "taste" without metaphysical concepts or language barrier. If you can, please do some homework before you land on the country. Read the manga «Oishinbo; Ramen and Gyoza 美味しんぼ「ラーメンと餃子」» by Tetsu Kariya 雁屋 哲, now available in English, and watch the movie «Tampopo タンポポ» by Juzo Itami 伊丹十三.
  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)