Tao Te Ching Chapter 28 Explained: The Deep Meaning of Yin & Yang
The Jason Gregory Podcast
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The Master Knows the Utensils
You don't want to get caught in a linguistic trap with this. The void here gives rise to the manifest world that we live in, the form that we are. Likewise with the void, all forms come from the void. They use utensils from a block of wood, the block of wood being youno, the natural. Avoid the untouched, the unexplainable. We can see it. We know it's there, but we can't give some sort of logical conclusion why a block of water's a block of Wood. And because of this, as the last line states, she can use all things. That's the irony when you are sticking to the uncarved
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