Form~less~Form, The Tao is like an empty vessel

The Tao is like an empty vessel.
Yet when you use it, you never need to fill it again.
Deep and still, it seems to be
the source of the ten thousand things!
We should blunt our sharp points, and untie the knots of things; we should attemper our brightness, and bring ourselves into agreement with the obscurity of others.

How pure and still the Tao is, as if it would ever so continue!

...It is empty but not depleted...

In concentrating your breath and making it soft,
Can you make it like that of a newborn babe?
In cultivating and cleaning your profound vision,
Can you do it so that you stay without stain?

We shape and fire clay into a vessel;
It is precisely the space within that makes the clay pots so useful.
It is precisely in these empty spaces that makes the room so useful.
Therefore benefit comes from what is there;
Usefulness comes from what is not there.....

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LAO CHE ~ Tao te king

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La suprême Vertu est comme l`eau...

Conserver plein ce qui va déborder...

Les vases sont faits d'argile, mais c'est grâce à leur Vide

que l'on peut s'en servir....

Regardant on ne le voit pas, on le nomme l'Invisible

Ecoutant, on ne l'entend pas, on le nomme l'Inaudible

Touchant; on ne le sent pas, on le nomme l'Impalpable....

En haut, il n'est pas éclairé; en bas il n'est pas Obscur.

Il est éternel, il est sans nom....

On peut dire qu'il est FORMEsansFORME...

allant à sa rencontre, on ne voit pas sa face

le suivant, on ne voit pas son dos...

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effacés; comme la glace fondante

simples; comme le bois non travaillé

vides; comme la vallée....

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LAO TSEU ~Tao te king