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The two previous talks I offered were connected to Taoism and explored the territory of wu wei to a certain extent. This brought to mind a talk I offered several years ago about wu wei, coming at it from a different angle, a different approach. I didn’t offer a fresh talk this week, so I thought I’d send this older one along. Might be a fitting companion to the other two - have a listen and find out for yourself:

Thirty spokes converge on a hub
but it's the emptiness
that makes a wheel work
pots are fashioned from clay
but it's the hollow
that makes a pot work
windows and doors are carved for a house
but it's the spaces
that make a house work
existence makes a thing useful
but nonexistence makes it work

Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11 (Red Pine, trans)

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