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59. Attainment and cycle

[Chapter 59 / English Translation] - click the line to watch the related video.
To govern the people and work for heaven, the best way is not to waste any as if you store the harvest.

Just don't waste any, and you will return early.

Returning early is said to be repeating and accumulating the attainment.

Repeat and accumulate the attainment, and you can beat any.

If you can beat any, you won't see the end of this cycle.

If you don't see the end of this cycle, you can keep the country.


If you have the mother of the country, you can last forever.

This is called Tao of "deep roots and firm roots, and living and seeing the eternity".


Rapid Decoded
"The people" and "heaven" mean your hologram. Don't try to "govern" it. Don't try to "work" on it, either. "The best way" is to accept all "as if you store the harvest".

Accept all and "don't waste any" of your energy. If you accept your hologram, you can "return" to Tao easily, that is to say, you can remember that true You are Tao and the world in front of you is a hologram.

This act of remembering it is called Dark Depth Attainment, or "the attainment" of Tao.

If you "repeat" Dark Depth Attainment, you can remember that you are the master of your hologram, the one who projects it.

If you remember it, you will see that your hologram is a catalyst. You receive the fundamental energy Tao and emit it. Your hologram (=the world) exists to stimulate the cycle of the energy (=Yin Yang circle). The cycle continues forever because time doesn't exist in Tao. Time exists only in your mind.

True You are part of this cycle, not of your hologram. Or rather, you are the cycle itself. The cycle never ends and you keep on projecting the hologram (="the country").


"The mother of the country" signifies the origin of your hologram, which is Tao. You are one with Tao all the time although you forget about the fact. Tao is forever. So are true You.

Every object and phenomenon in your hologram (=the world) is deeply and firmly rooted in Tao. It is Tao's manifestation. If you have learned the difference between true You (=Tao) and your own self (=your hologram), you surely know you live eternally.


Videos / YouTube playlist

- 59-1 Don't waste
- 59-2 Return early
- 59-3 Return & Repeat
- 59-4 Repeat Attainment
- 59-5 Cycle's end
- 59-6 Never-ending cycle
- 59-7 Forever
- 59-8 Live eternally


[Related Articles]
-Government. Fortune and misfortune are an eternal cycle like Yin and Yang.

-Fortune. "No one knows the end of this cycle." (Ch.58)





Read Yama Uba the Zen play

☞Utagawa, Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳, Ukiyo-e painter (1797 - 1861). On the left, «Banners for Boys' Day Festival / Tango no Sekku 端午の節句». On the right, «Oniwakamaru 鬼若丸».
  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: 22 January 2012)