Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
“Uncut wood, nothing important, yet nobody under heaven dare try to carve it.
If rulers and leaders could use it, the ten thousand things would gather in homage, heaven and earth would drop sweet dew, and people, without being ordered, would be fair to one another.
To order, to govern, is to begin naming; when names proliferate it’s time to stop.
If you know when to stop you’re in no danger.
The Way in the world is as a stream to a valley, a river to the sea.
The second verse connects the uncut,... the uncarved, the unusable, to the idea of the unnamed presented in the first chapter: “name’s the mother of the ten thousand things.” You have to make order, you have to make distinctions, but you also have to know when to stop before you’ve lost the whole in the multiplicity of parts.MoreLess
If rulers and leaders could use it, the ten thousand things would gather in homage, heaven and earth would drop sweet dew, and people, without being ordered, would be fair to one another.
To order, to govern, is to begin naming; when names proliferate it’s time to stop.
If you know when to stop you’re in no danger.
The Way in the world is as a stream to a valley, a river to the sea.
The second verse connects the uncut,... the uncarved, the unusable, to the idea of the unnamed presented in the first chapter: “name’s the mother of the ten thousand things.” You have to make order, you have to make distinctions, but you also have to know when to stop before you’ve lost the whole in the multiplicity of parts.MoreLess
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