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It is easy to maintain something stable.
It is easy to treat a thing before it has appeared.
It is easy to melt a thing while it is fragile.
It is easy to erase a thing while it is minute.
Do it before it has come to exist.
Put it in order before it has got disordered.
A big tree grows from the minutest tip of a downy hair.
A nine-storeyed tower's construction begins with a small heap of earth.
A travel of a thousand leagues starts from beneath the foot.
If you do something to it, you will defeat it.
If you stick to it, you will lose it.
Hence, the sage does nothing, so he defeats nothing.
He doesn't stick to anything, so he doesn't lose anything.
When people do a job, they always defeat it just before it's completed.
End it carefully as if you are starting it, and you will never defeat the job.
That's why the sage desires not to desire.
He doesn't value rare coins.
He learns not to learn.
He brings back people's excess to the state it was before.
Thus he keeps everything with its natural transformation.
He doesn't dare to act.
Rapid Decoded
It is easy to be one with Tao.
Don't act on your hologram. "Treat a thing" before it is projected. The state before the creation of a hologram is called
"Bumo-misho-izen" in Zen Buddhism.
Be "fragile". Then, you are flexible. "Melt" yourself. Then, you are
much closer to the state of Tao. Don't be hard in any sense.
When a thing is small, it is much closer to Tao. Being "erased" means returning to Tao.
Do what you want to do before it is projected in your hologram. Only
projected holograms "come to exist" in the world, or, so-called reality.
"Disorder" exists only in your interpretation. Everything is perfectly
in order in your hologram, not to mention in Tao. In that case, what
does it mean by "Put it in order"? It means, "Do nothing".
A big thing has a small thing as its origin. Everything has Tao in its origin.
Your hologram (=the world) begins in Tao. In Tao, space doesn't exist.
Space and time don't exist in Tao. They only exist in our mind.
If you do something directly to your hologram, you will block the
fundamental energy Tao's flow to it. Acting directly means refusing the
world before you (=your hologram). It is exactly like resistance in
electricity. As you increase your resistance, less energy circulates.
Then, the lamp (=your hologram) doesn't light up.
"Sticking to it" indicates obsession. It is another form of refusal. You refuse to accept change. (☞See Ch.29)
Hence, you should do nothing. Then, you won't thwart anything.
You should not stick to anything. Then, you won't lose anything.
If you act on your hologram (=the world), you thwart its natural
transformation. You create resistance and block the free flow of the
fundamental energy Tao "just before" the hologram of an object, a deed,
or a thought comes to exist completely. Consequently, it will be
disfigured and far from what your own self wants although it is always
perfect. This "disfigured" hologram asks you to accept it as a
catalyst. If you accept it, you emit the energy Tao. That's the
objective, for which all of your hologram (=the world) exists.
End is synonymous to beginning in Tao since time doesn't exist there.
In fact, you never thwart Tao's energy. You just think otherwise. This
imaginary resistance of non-acceptance (=fight, =action) is the cause
of your pain.
That's why you should have no desire. After all, your desire doesn't
belong to you. It is part of your hologram. Don't be fooled by
something called "your desire". It is an illusion. Leave it alone.
"Rare coins" suggest your intellectual analysis and the following act
to turn your hologram (=the world) favourable to your benefit. Don't
analyse your hologram. Don't try to change it, either. (☞See Ch.3)
Don't learn. Reduce your knowledge. (☞See "Reduce and reduce" [Ch.48])
If you try to "bring back" your hologram "to the state it was before",
you can return to Tao. This is how you can be One with Tao. You can
remember that true You are Tao, without being bothered by your feelings
and thoughts.
Thus, you can leave your hologram transforming itself naturally.
Do not act.
Videos / YouTube playlist
- 64-1 Something stable
- 64-2 Before materialization
- 64-3 While fragile
- 64-4 While minute
- 64-5 Before existence
- 64-6 In order
- 64-7 Tree from a hair
- 64-8 Nine-story tower
- 64-9 A thousand league travel
- 64-10 Do & Defeat
- 64-11 Stick & Lose
- 64-12 Defeat nothing
- 64-13 Don't stick
- 64-14 Before completed
- 64-15 Careful end
- 64-16 Desire no desire
- 64-17 Rare coins
- 64-18 Learn no learn
- 64-19 Excess
- 64-20 Transformation
- 64-21 Don't dare
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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: 19 November 2011)
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