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Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-6
Learn it in the village, and its attainment lasts. (Ch.54)

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Love your village.

That is to say, love everything surrounding you.

Now, we know Lao Tzu's teachings here.

We start accepting and loving our own self first, and gradually expand the zone of love and acceptance.

This is one way to attain Tao.

Of course, you can accept and love all, at once.

In either way, the conclusion is the same.

Accept your hologram as a catalyst and keep Tao's energy cycling.


Tao has no time.

So, if you do this once, Tao's cycle lasts forever.

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Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-7
Learn it in the country, and its attainment is rich. (Ch.54)

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Love your country no matter what its state is.

Don't criticize politicians.

Accept people in the media as they are.

If you get annoyed, you create unnecessary resistance and waste your energy.

"The country" is much smaller than the TV set next to you.

It is just a backdrop of your hologram.

It is not wise to cut the "rich" flow of Tao's energy by getting upset.

If you don't like what is going on in "the country", be like Nikko's three monkeys.

See nothing.

Say nothing.

Hear nothing.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-8
Learn it in the world under the sky, and its attainment is omnipresent. (Ch.54)

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This sentence summarizes the paragraph.

The world is your hologram.

Learn Tao in the hologram.

In other words, receive Tao through the hologram.

This is Tao's attainment.

Zen master Dogen looks at this from another point of view:

"The so-called light of Buddha is ten nooks and crannies of the whole world".


(Komyo 光明, «Shobogenzo»)

At any part of this world, in every sphere of your hologram, you are seeing Buddha's light, which is Love, which is Tao.

It exists everywhere, waiting to be received.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-9
See the body
Therefore, see the body through the body. (Ch. 54)

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Therefore, see Tao

through your body.

Your magnificent body

is a manifestation of


Not only that, the whole world is your body.

Chinese Zen master Chosha Keishin / Ch'ang-sha Ching-tsen

長沙景岑禅師 said:

"Ten nooks and crannies of the whole world are the entire body of a monk."


(Komyo 光明/ Jippou 十方, «Shobogenzo»)

Do not judge your body according to a criterion invented by the


Every body is beautiful.

Since your body is beautiful, this entire world is beautiful.


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Tao Te Ching Chapter 54-10
See the family
See the family

through the family. (Ch. 54)

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See Tao through your


Family members are a

manifestation of Tao.

Then, why do Zen monks have to abandon their family?

That's why they are called Shukke 出家, "leaving the family", isn't it?

This question can be answered by another question.

Have they ever had a family?


Because you do not possess your holograms, which include your


Leaving the family is one way to learn that the whole world is a


Of course, you can choose another way of learning it while listening

to all the gibberish of your family members.

You never know, an enlightened layman in eighth-century China,

Hokoji 龐居士 / P'ang Yun 龐蘊, may have gone through the same thing.


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