Tao by Matsumoto

8. Be like Water - Click the line to watch the related video.

[Chapter 8 / English Translation]
The highest good is like water.

Water benefits all the material beings very well, and doesn't contend.

It stays at the place where many people think is bad.

Therefore, it is close to Tao.

Simply, it never contends, so it never errs.


Rapid Decoded
Be like water. (若水: "like water" in Chinese characters / kanji. In Tao Te Ching's original text, it is written 上 善 若 水, which mean "high, good, like, water" respectively, according to the order of the characters.) It is the best way.

Water never resists. It accepts all.

It never judges.

Therefore, to be one with Tao, be like water.

Do not fight. For you know there is neither a winner nor a loser in your hologram that you create.


Videos / YouTube playlist
- 8-1 Like water
- 8-2 Water benefits all
- 8-3 Water stays at the bad place
- 8-4 Water is close to Tao
- 8-5 Water never errs


[Related Articles]
-Dark Depth Female. Water is a perfect example to be female.

-10 points to be One with Tao. If you know this technique, life is easier. It is very simple. Probably, too simple. It is exactly because of it people don't want to believe it. It's sad.

-Baby is safe. Water and a baby are something close to Tao.

-A god's vessel. "The world under the sky is a god's vessel. Don't do anything to it", says Lao Tzu.





Read Yama Uba the Zen play

☞Kobo Abe 安部公房 first wrote «The Woman in the Dunes / Suna no onna 砂の女» as a novel. Then he adapted it into a screenplay. Hiroshi Teshigawara 勅使河原宏 directed the film. In 60s and 70s Japan enjoyed excellent avant-garde films.
  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: 29 October 2011)