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

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Clay Pot Is a Function of Nothingness

I don't want to align emptiness with the valley and the fecundity because I think that's a different thing. But it's a very for something that's nothing. It is the most vibrant thing. And then once you start to use it, you use it up. You make objects out of it and it loses its potency. The pot does not engender anything. The valley is a vessel that produces things. Those are two different types of metaphors there.

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