Tao by Matsumoto

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73. Heaven's net

[Chapter 73 / English Translation] - click the line to watch the related video.
If you are brave enough to do, you don't live.

If you are brave enough not to do, you live.

Of the two, one is merit and the other is demerit.

Who knows why heaven doesn't like what it hates.


Heaven's Tao doesn't compete but wins well.

It doesn't say but responds well.

It doesn't call any, but they come somehow.

It is relaxing and plans well.

Heaven's net is vast. Its mesh is not fine, but it doesn't lose any.


Rapid Decoded
True life is not in your hologram. If you act directly on the latter, you will be stuck there. You are not truly living.

"If you are brave" and wise enough not to act on your hologram (=the world) and leave it alone, you know that you are one with Tao. You are truly living.

Don't be misled by the words "merit" and "demerit". The two are both sides of a coin. There is no discernment in Tao.

"Heaven" indicates your hologram (=the world). There is no reason behind when people seem to hate something. You are just projecting your interpretation.


True You are Tao, and omnipresent. Don't compete, and you will always "win" because there is neither win nor defeat. There is only your judgement. Don't judge.

You don't have to say anything. What you think is completely listened to. The world will respond to your thought consequently.

You don't have to act on any. Since your hologram (=the world) is created in the mind, everything comes to form itself as you like.

Don't be annoyed if your wish is not granted immediately. Tao's wisdom (=your true wisdom) is far more thoughtful than your superficial intelligence. In the long run, what is taking place will be the best for you.

"Heaven's net" suggests Tao. Tao is vast and omnipresent. It reigns over all your hologram (=the world). Just trust it.


Videos / YouTube playlist

- 73-1 Act without living
- 73-2 Live without acting
- 73-3 Merit
- 73-4 Hatred
- 73-5 Heaven's Tao wins
- 73-6 Response
- 73-7 I shin den shin / No call
- 73-8 Plan
- 73-9 Tao = Net


[Related Articles]
-Do nothing. In Ch.3, this principle is discussed. It may be a bit different from what you think of "doing truly nothing". You don't act directly on your hologram, but you can transform it by using Dark Depth Female.

-Do not judge. Judgement is a manifestation of your little ego, which has nothing to do with true You.





Read Yama Uba the Zen play

☞The Japanese title of Masahiro Shinoda's «Double Suicide» 篠田正浩「心中天網島」is «Shinju Ten no Amijima». Chikamatsu, Monzaemon 近松門左衛門 wrote the original in the time of the samurai. "Ami 網 jima島" literally means Net Island 網島, where a merchant and a high-class prostitute committed Shinju 心中 / suicide. Chikamatsu the Japanese Shakespeare associated the name of the island with a well-known line from this chapter 73: "Heaven's net is vast. 天網恢恢 [Ten mo kai kai]". The word-by-word translation of the title is «The Love Suicides at Heaven's Net Island».
  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: 14 November 2011)