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76. Soft and weak

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The life of man is soft and weak.

The end of the life of man is hard and strong.

The life of everything; grasses or trees, is soft and fragile.

The end of its life is dry and withered.

Therefore, those who are hard and strong are men of non-life.

Those who are soft and weak are men of life.


Hence, if your army is strong, you will never win.

A strong branch of a tree will surely be snapped.

The strong and big stays low.

The soft and weak stays high.


Rapid Decoded
Life is a hologram. It is intangible (="soft and weak") no matter how firmly you believe otherwise.

At the end of our life, we think that the body gets "hard" and petrified (="strong"). Nevertheless, nothing solid exists in our hologram (=the world). Neither does "the end" of anything since Tao has nothing to do with time. There is neither beginning nor end in Tao. Time is an idea you establish in your mind.

All your holograms are intangible.

When things are alive, they are not "dry and withered". Tao is the constant recreation of existence without time and space. Nothing is "dry and withered" in Tao. There isn't the end of your hologram. How can a thing end if time doesn't exist?

Therefore, something "hard and strong" is an illusion in your mind. The expression "non-life" can be interpreted either "out of the hologram" or "the end of life". Here, it is used to signify the latter. At the end of a man's life, we believe that his body becomes "hard and strong". The stiffness is an illusion. So is the concept of "end". Tao has no end.

Those who accept that life is a hologram and therefore intangible, can live a true life. It is to receive and emit the maximum of the energy Tao.


Hence, be weak if you want to win. This is the principle of Dark Depth Female. (☞See Reverse Thinking as well) Avoid any type of control over your hologram if you want to transform it as you like. That's what "do nothing" means.

Be weak and do nothing if you want to change your hologram. If you are strong and work hard, you cannot be detached from your hologram (=the world).

Tao is the only one that is truly "strong and big". It stays in the shadow of all the visible phenomena (=your hologram).

Your hologram is intangible. It stays at the surface of the visible phenomena. It is superficial although it contains Tao's energy. You don't have to be concerned about it. Just accept and love it. If you cannot help changing it, be weak and soft, use Dark Depth Female and do nothing.


Videos / YouTube playlist

- 76-1 Soft life
- 76-2 Hard end
- 76-3 Fragile life
- 76-4 Dry end
- 76-5 Mujoseppo = non-living preach / Hard & Strong
- 76-6 Soft and weak men
- 76-7 Strong army, no win
- 76-8 Karoshi / Snapped branch
- 76-9 Hossho stays low
- 76-10 Hoben gate / Soft & Weak


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-Life. Life and non-life are discussed there.





Read Yama Uba the Zen play

☞Water is the softest of all. Masaru Emoto 江本勝 tells us in his «Messages from Water and the Universe» that water is a transporter of messages. ☞Yasunari Kawabata 川端康成 wrote many short stories, and this «Palm-of-the-hand Stories / Tenohira no shosetsu 掌の小説» is a beautiful collection of them. Many of them are about girls treated as undesirable. Probably they are the weakest of all.
  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)