/lit/ - Literature

>>10564084
>Daodejing.

>Thirty spokes are joined together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that allows the wheel to function.

>We mold clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that makes the vessel useful.

>We fashion wood for a house,
but it is the emptiness inside
that makes it livable.

>We work with the substantial,
but the emptiness is what we use.

>>9178136
>If only they were to meet and somehow synthesize their thought, it would be the greatest spectactle of sophistry and inspiration ever witnessed

>>9003433
Tao Te Ching is great.

>We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel;
>But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the wheel depends.
>We turn clay to make a vessel;
>But it is on the space where there is nothing that the usefulness of the vessel depends.
>We pierce doors and windows to make a house;
>And it is on these spaces where there is nothing that the usefulness of the house depends.
>Therefore just as we take advantage of what is, we should recognize the usefulness of what is not.

>>7019148
>Everything is abstraction, even abstraction itself!