Tao-te ching Comments |
Chapter 40 Quote The movement of the Tao Commentary Tao proceeds by opposites (light Vs dark or yin vs. yang, and so forth) - this is the Way. It's "course" is flexible (that is, like water which doesn't have a solid state). All that exists is made of this yin-yang oscillation, according to the Way. The existent comes from the non-existent (meaning the void - wu).
Here the void is central and originator of all that exists. About the void, also called, emptiness, I wrote Compare this interpretation with that of Bradford Hatcher.
Reversal is the movement of the way
By contraries proceeds;
And weakness marks the course
Of Tao's mighty deeds.
All things under heaven sprang from It as existing (and named);
that existence sprang from It as non-existent (and not named).
(James Legge translation)
Yielding in the method of the way
The myriad beings in nature arose out of being
Being arose out on nothing.
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Commentary by Jhian
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