Matgioi

Matérias

• XIV - La Voie n’est pas sensible
  21 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  Because the eye gazes but can catch no glimpse of it, It is called elusive. Because the ear listens but cannot hear it, It is called the rarefied. Because the hand feels for it but cannot find it, It is called the infinitesimal. These three, because they cannot be further scrutinized, Blend into one, Its rising brings no light; Its sinking, no darkness. Endless the series of things without name On the way back to where there is nothing. They are called shapeless shapes; Forms without (...)

• LXXIV - La peine de mort
  27 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  The people are not frightened of death. What then is the use of trying to intimidate them with the death-penalty?
  And even supposing people were generally frightened of death And did not regard it as an everyday thing, Which of us would dare to seize them and slay them?
  There is the Lord of Slaughter always ready for this task, And to do it in his stead is like thrusting oneself into the master-carpenter’s place And doing his chipping for him. Now “he who tries to do the (...)

• XL: Le cercle, voilà le mouvement de la Voie
  25 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  In Tao the only motion is returning; The only useful quality, weakness. For though all creatures under heaven are the products of Being, Being itself is the product of Not-being.
  Wieger
  A. Le retour en arrière (vers le Principe), est la forme de mouvement caractéristique de ceux qui se conforment au Principe. L’atténuation est l’effet que produit en eux leur conformation au Principe.
  B. Considérant que tout ce qui est, est né de l’être simple, et que l’être est né du non être de forme, (...)

• XXXVII - La Voie paraît n’agir pas
  23 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  Tao never does; Yet through it all things are done. If the barons and kings would but possess themselves of it, The ten thousand creatures would at once be transformed. And if having been transformed they should desire to act, We must restrain them by the blankness of the Unnamed. The blankness of the Unnamed Brings dispassion; To be dispassionate is to be still. And so, of itself, the whole empire will be at rest.
  Wieger
  A. Le Principe est toujours non agissant (n’agit pas (...)

• LXXI - Savoir et ne pas prévoir
  27 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  “To know when one does not know is best. To think one knows when one does not know is a dire disease. Only he who recognizes this disease as a disease Can cure himself of the disease. The Sage’s way of curing disease Also consists in making people recognize their diseases as diseases And thus ceasing to be diseased.
  Wieger
  A. Tout savoir et croire qu’on ne sait rien, voilà le vrai savoir (la science supérieure). Ne rien savoir et croire qu’on sait tout, voilà le mal commun des humains. (...)

• XXXVIII - La Vertu supérieure ne fait pas valoir sa vertu
  23 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  The man of highest “power” does not reveal himself as a possessor of “power”; Therefore he keeps his “power”. The man of inferior “power” cannot rid it of the appearance of “power”; Therefore he is in truth without “power”. The man of highest “power” neither acts nor is there any who so regards him; The man of inferior “power” both acts and is so regarded. The man of highest humanity, though he acts, is not regarded; Whereas a man of even the highest morality both acts and is so regarded; While even (...)

• LXV - Tenir le peuple dans l’ignorance
  27 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  In the days of old those who practiced Tao with success did not, By means of it, Enlighten the people, but on the contrary sought to make them ignorant. The more knowledge people have, the harder they are to rule. Those who seek to rule by giving knowledge Are like bandits preying on the land. Those who rule without giving knowledge Bring a stock of good fortune to the land. To have understood the difference between these who things Is to have a test and standard To be always able to (...)

• L - Le Sage est détaché de sa vie
  25 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  He who aims at life achieves death. If the “companions of life” are thirteen, So likewise are the “companions of death” thirteen. How is it that the “death-stops” in man’s life And activity are also thirteen? It is because men feed life too grossly. It is said that he who has a true hold on life, When he walks on land does not meet tigers or wild buffaloes; In battle he is not touched by weapons of war. Indeed, A buffalo that attacked him would find nothing for its horns to butt, A tiger (...)

• LXXV - La sagesse de ne rien faire pour vivre
  27 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.
  The people are difficult to keep in order because those above them interfere. That is the only reason why they are so difficult to keep in order. The people attach no importance to death, Because those above them are too grossly absorbed in the pursuit of life. That is why they attach no importance to death. And indeed, in that their hearts are so little set on life They are (...)

• Tao Te Ching LVIII - O mal e o bem alternam
  3 de setembro, por Cardoso de Castro

  Se um país é governado com tolerância, as pessoas são confortáveis e honestas. Se um país é governado com repressão, as pessoas são deprimidas e astutas. Quando a vontade para o poder está no comando, quanto maiores os ideais, menores os resultados. Tente fazer as pessoas felizes, e você lança as bases para a miséria. Tente tornar as pessoas morais, e você lança as bases para o vício. Assim, o Mestre se contenta em servir de exemplo e não impor sua vontade. Ela é aguda, mas não perfura. Direta, mas (...)

• XIX - Les préceptes et le vrai appui
  21 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  Banish wisdom, discard knowledge, And the people will be benefited a hundredfold.
  Banish human kindness, discard morality, And the people will be dutiful and compassionate.
  Banish skill, discard profit, And thieves and robbers will disappear.
  If when these three things are done they find life too plain and unadorned, Then let them have accessories; Give them Simplicity to look at, the Uncarved Black to hold, Give them selflessness and fewness of desires.
  Banish learning, and (...)

• LXII - La Voie est la condition de tous les hommes
  27 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  Tao in the Universe is like the south-west corner in the house. It is the treasure of the good man, The support of the bad. There is a traffic in speakers of fine words; Persons of grave demeanour are accepted as gifts; Even the bad let slip no opportunity to acquire them. Therefore on the day of an Emperor’s enthronement Or at the installation of the three officers of State Rather than send a team of four horses, preceded by a disc of jade, Better were it, as can be done without (...)

• LXXIX - L’homme qui suit la Voie ne redoute rien
  27 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  (To requite injuries with good deeds.) To allay the main discontent, But only in a manner that will certainly produce further discontents can hardly be called successful.
  Therefore the Sage behaves like the holder of the left-hand tally, Who stays where he is and does not go round making claims on people.
  For he who has the “power” of Tao is the Grand Almoner; He who has not the “power” is the Grand Perquisitor. “It is Heaven’s way, without distinction of persons, To keep the good (...)

• LXXVIII - L’eau, le plus souple et le plus faible
  27 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  Nothing under heaven is softer or more yielding than water; But when it attacks things hard and resistant there is not one of them that can prevail. For they can find no way of altering it.
  That the yielding conquers the resistant And the soft conquers the hard is a fact known by all men, Yet utilized by none.
  Yet it is in reference to this that the Sage said “Only he who has accepted the dirt of the country can be lord of its soil shrines; Only he who takes upon himself the evils (...)

• XLVII - Plus on sort loin, moins on connaît
  25 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  Without leaving his door He knows everything under heaven. Without looking out of his window He knows all the ways of heaven. For the further one travels The less one knows. Therefore the Sage arrives without going, Sees all without looking, Does nothing, yet achieves everything.
  Wieger
  A. Sans sortir par la porte, on peut connaître tout le monde ; sans regarder par la fenêtre, on peut se rendre compte des voies du ciel (principes qui régissent toutes choses). — Plus on va loin, (...)

• Tao Te Ching V: o céu e a terra são inumanos
  3 de setembro, por Cardoso de Castro

  O Tao não toma partido; dá nascimento tanto ao bem quanto ao mal. A Mestre não toma partido; acolhe tanto santos quanto pecadores. O Tao é como um fole: está vazio no entanto infinitamente capaz. Quanto mais o usas, mais produz; quanto mais falas dele, menos o compreendes. Firme-se ao centro.
  Mitchell
  The Tao doesn’t take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn’t take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely (...)

• Matgioi (VM:28-31) – Deus
  23 de novembro de 2021, por Cardoso de Castro

  MATGIOI. La Voie métaphysique. Paris: Éditions traditionnelles, 1980, p. 28-31
  original
  La différence entre les conceptions, occidentale et orientale, de Dieu et de l’origine des Dieux, et de l’idée de Dieu, est primordiale et absolue. En Occident, nos langues alphabétiques donnent, à notre sujet d’études, le nom de quatre lettres, Dieu, qui est d’un concrétisme merveilleux et si précis, qu’on en voit partout les bornes ; et, insatisfaits encore de cette désignation, les occidentaux l’illustrent par (...)

• Tao Te Ching II: algo e seu contrário nascem juntos
  3 de setembro, por Cardoso de Castro

  Quando as pessoas veem algumas coisas como belas, outras coisas se tornam feias. Quando as pessoas veem algumas coisas como boas, outras coisas se tornam más. Ser e não-ser criam um ao outro. Dificuldade e facilidade suportam-se uma a outra. Longo e curto definem-se um ao outro. Alto e baixo dependem um do outro. Antes e depois seguem um ao outro. Por conseguinte a Mestre age sem fazer nada e ensina sem dizer nada. As coisas surgem e ela as deixa vir; as coisas desaparecem e ela as deixa ir. (...)

• LIX - L’essentiel c’est de tempérer son action
  26 de fevereiro de 2018, por Cardoso de Castro

  Waley
  You cannot rule men nor serve heaven unless you have laid up a store; This “laying up a store” means quickly absorbing, And “quickly absorbing” means doubling one’s garnered “power”. Double your garnered power and it acquires a strength that nothing can overcome. If there is nothing it cannot overcome, it know no bounds, And only what knows no bounds is huge enough to keep a whole kingdom in its grasp. But only he who having the kingdom goes to the Mother can keep it long. This is called (...)

• Tao Te Ching XIII – Favor e desgraça
  6 de setembro, por Cardoso de Castro

  Sucesso é tão perigoso quanto insucesso Esperança tão oca quanto medo. O que significa "sucesso é tão perigoso quanto insucesso"? Se sobes a escada ou a desces, sua posição é desequilibrada Quando te manténs com os dois pés no chão sempre manténs o equilíbrio. O que significa "esperança é tão oca quanto medo"? Esperança e medo são ambos fantasmas que se erguem pelo pensamento do eu. Quando não vemos o eu como eu o que temos a temer? Vejas o mundo como teu eu. Tenhas fé no jeito que as coisas são Ames o mundo (...)