Motif
Creative power of emptiness
creative_power_of_emptiness
A motif of the Cosmic Origin and Creation family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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taoist
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道德經 道德經; lines 64-460 confidence: high
Thirty spokes share one hub; clay is shaped into a vessel; doors and windows are cut for a room. Their usefulness depends on what is absent or hollow.
The wheel hub, vessel, and room are useful because of empty spaces, and the passage generalizes that being gives benefit while non-being gives use.
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