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#11
03-27-2005, 09:38 AM
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Oh ... Master Vigil, you used my reply.
I was going to use the second quote from the Tao Te Ching about usefullness in emptiness. That quote is fairly early on in the Tao Te Ching. Oh, well. Good topic, though. 
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03-28-2005, 04:34 PM
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Aha!
I found another example, from the Tao Te Ching. The Tao Te Ching says it is not the wood that makes the house useful, it is the "emptiness" inside the wood -- that is, the open space. 
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03-29-2005, 02:53 PM
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Good job sage.
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05-06-2005, 03:06 PM
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A bit late, but I thought I'd chime in... that's one of my favorite chapters in the Tao Te Ching.
Since I've been working with pottery a lot lately, the mention of the emptiness within it struck a chord within me.
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05-06-2005, 03:35 PM
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Emptiness is a wonderful conept. It makes us material people focus on the immaterial. It makes the immaterial (I hope thats a word) more important than the material. That is hard for us as a society, but I think it is good for it. And since the Tao can be equated with emptiness, it allows for better understanding of Tao.
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