Dao de jing 11

"Thirty spokes surround a hub: In their nothingness, the chariot's work exists. Clay is hollowed out and formed into pots: In their nothingness, the pot's work exists. Doors and windows are dug out so that the chamber may be: In its nothingness, the chamber's work exists. Therefore: What is, serves for possession. What is not, serves for work."

Wilhelm 11 Google's German Translation

 "Thirty spokes are united around a hub. The use of the chariot depends on its emptiness.

Clay is kneaded to make vases. The use of the vases depends on its emptiness. Doors and windows are made to make a house. The use of the house depends on their emptiness. Therefore, utility comes from being, use is born from non-being." Julian 11 Google's translation from French

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 "Can you form your soul so that it embraces the One,

without scattering?

Can you unify your strength

and achieve the softness

that you become like a little child?

Can you purify your secret vision so that it is free of stains?

Can you love people and govern the state,

so that you remain without knowledge?

Can you, when the pillars of heaven

open and close,

be like a hen?

Can you, with your inner clarity and purity,

penetrate everything without needing to act?

To produce and nourish,

to produce and not possess,

to work and not retain,

to increase and not dominate:

that is secret LIFE."

Dao de ching 10; Google translation from German, Wilhelm 10

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