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Ep. 311: Understanding the Dao De Jing (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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What's the Meaning of the 10,000 Things?

By naming things, we create objects out of the formless mass that is the dao. Ames wants to say, well, it's not things. It has to include events. Dylan, what does yours say? Hendrix keeps repeating these phrases, the 10,000 things,. I also assume that that was a kind of literal rendition of everything.

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