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星子 · 酷我！I made it！ 注册时间: 2004-06-05 帖子: 13192 来自: Toronto

We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

---------Translated, ZT from Joke daily, a chinese poem by l老子

I don't know the chinese version, who knows, please post here.

晓鸣 · 发表于: 星期二七月 06, 2004 9:42 pm 发表主题:

《老子》第十一章

三十辐，共一毂，当其无，有车之用。
埏埴以为器，当其无，有器之用。
凿户牖以为室，当其无，有室之用。
故有之以为利，无之以为用。
【解释】
三十根条幅集中在车毂的周围，车毂中间有了穿轴的空洞（无），才有车的作用。揉抟粘土作器具，当器具中有空虚的地方才有器具的作用。开凿门窗建造房屋，当房屋中有空虚的地方才有房屋的作用。所以“有”只提供条件，“无”（空虚）才起到作用。

星子 · 发表于: 星期二七月 06, 2004 9:54 pm 发表主题:

Thanks James' post the original version.

Here add more comments: (It is very useful when we review our lives)

It reminded that within the chaos of our lives, something infinitely powerful and and surpassingly sweet is whispering to us. It is when all of our somethings are collapsing that we may finally turn to nothing, and find there everything we need.

秋叶 · 发表于: 星期三七月 07, 2004 5:21 am 发表主题:

晓鸣 · 发表于: 星期三七月 07, 2004 5:47 am 发表主题:

昨天贴上去时忘了写出处.我是从以下网站抄来的:
http://news.blcu.edu.cn/chineseculture/jddd/jddd0016.htm