XI
Thirty spokes
Share one hub.
Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in hand, and
you will have the use of the cart. Knead clay in order
to make a vessel. Adapt the nothing therein to the
purpose in hand, and you will have the use of the
vessel. Cut out doors and windows in order to make
a room. Adapt the nothing therein to the purpose in
hand, and you will have the use of the room.
Thus what we gain is Something, yet it is by virtue of
Nothing that this can be put to use.
Source of the text - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, translated with an introduction by D.C. Lau. New York: Penguin Books, 1963, page 67.
TJB: Inner space. This parable-like text might express how things are constructed so as to allow empty space to have meaning and use. So too our mind?
Source of the text - Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, translated with an introduction by D.C. Lau. New York: Penguin Books, 1963, page 67.
TJB: Inner space. This parable-like text might express how things are constructed so as to allow empty space to have meaning and use. So too our mind?
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