About From the Chinese
(Lao Zi)
Chapter 11
Take thirty spokes to make a wheel
But it's the emptiness within - the hub -
That makes it useful.
Earth and water make a bowl
But it's the emptiness within -
That makes it useful.
Take walls and windows to raise a room
But it's the space within -
That makes it useful.
Therefore,
The things you make may yield you profit
But it's the emptiness within -
This makes them useful.
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From the Chinese is a setting of my translations of three Tang Dynasty poems and a chapter from Lao Zi. That poem (below) sums up the song cycle and my interpretation of Taoism.
Dao de Zhing(Lao Zi)
Chapter 11
Take thirty spokes to make a wheel
But it's the emptiness within - the hub -
That makes it useful.
Earth and water make a bowl
But it's the emptiness within -
That makes it useful.
Take walls and windows to raise a room
But it's the space within -
That makes it useful.
Therefore,
The things you make may yield you profit
But it's the emptiness within -
This makes them useful.
Availablity
Download PDF of "From the Chinese"
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