Tao Te Ching - Verse 11

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we are.

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The passage invokes a picture in my mind of people coming together to be the Tao; we are the spokes, the clay, the wood.  We are the Being.

Unbelievable

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Aargh!

This picture makes me chuckle; its a good rendition of what happens to me when I get frustrated.

Things to do:

1.  Figure out the controls on my camera

2.  Practice art

3.  Read

4.  Ponder frustration

5.  Ponder loneliness

6.  Ponder why I write this blog

7.  Exercise at the gym

8.  Make real connections with real people.  

That's a 24 hour day right there.  

I need someone to pay me for doing nothing, and clean my house besides.