Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Tao Te Ching Chapter 55-1 Inner attainment



Today's Tao

One who richly has inner attainment can be compared with a baby. (Ch.55)


Don't try to look for Tao's attainment somewhere else.

You've already got it inside you.


Zen Master Ikkyu wrote a Waka poem about it.


Sono mama ni

Umare nagara no kokoro koso

Negawazu totemo hotoke narubeshi

そのままに

生まれながらの心こそ

ねがはずとても仏なるべし

As it is,

The very pure mind of a new-born

Is Buddha, whether you wish it or not.

(☞See another translation in Tao by Matsumoto / No Numbers.)


Be like a baby.


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-Tao by Matsumoto / Tao Te Ching / Chapter 55


Tao answers your question!



☞Osamu Dazai had been underrated outside Japan until recently. Yukio Mishima and he detested each other. Isn't it a reason good enough to read Dazai's works. «No Longer Human» is undoubtedly a masterpiece in Japanese literature. Saigyo, a 12th-century Japanese poet, is another underrated artist outside his own country. Like Basho, he traveled extensively. Unlike the Haiku master, he financed his travels out of his own pocket.

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