Sublime

Wu is nothingness, emptiness, non-existence Thirty spokes of a wheel all join at a common hub yet only the hole at the center allows the wheel to spin Clay is molded to form a cup yet only the space within allows the cup to hold water Walls are joined to make a room yet only by cutting out a door and a window can one enter the room and live there

The Taoism of Lao-tzu was about the Way, the Tao, which is something we experience when we are more attentive to our inner and outer worlds. The Tao can be followed and experientially known when we have surrendered our controlled, conditioned identity over to the effortless realm of spontaneity and trust, wu-wei. This effortless realm is why the

Do you want to know what Tao is? It is the distance you cover from start to finish. It is that simple.

Les taoïstes croient en une force invisible dirigeant les événements. Le choix le plus sage serait alors de se rendre à cette force et d’y soumettre notre vanité de révoltés : « Le sage pratique le non-agir. » Être affairé, suroccupé, se faire du souci, tout cela est un gaspillage d’efforts et revient à tenter de nager à contre-courant – soit

Tao “covers the ten thousand things like a garment but does not claim to be master over them” (Ch. XXXIV). Lao-tzu describes it as “Nothing,”4 by which he means, says Wilhelm, only its “contrast with the world of reality.” Lao-tzu describes its nature as follows: We put thirty spokes together and call it a wheel; But it is on the space where there

A mind free of thought, merged within itself, beholds the essence of Tao A mind filled with thought, identified with its own perceptions, beholds the mere forms of this world

the entire Dao De Jing book is about two essential concepts: the Dao (mind) and the De (behavior).

WU CH’ENG says, “The Tao’s lack of effort is ancient and eternal and not simply temporary. Although it makes no effort, it does everything it should do. If rulers could uphold this Tao of effortlessness, without consciously thinking about changing others, others would change by themselves.