Tao De Ching Class example

The motion of the Way is to return;

The use of the Way is to accept;

All things come from the Way,

And the Way comes from nothing.

The Tao De Ching is actually very interesting to me. I have learned a lot about the culture, per say, in class.  I find it fun to deep read the poems. When I first read this poem I thought.. “really, this is lame, and it doesn’t make any sense.” When we analyzed the text in class I had a completely different view on it. To start with this one, I had to recall, or think of what the “way” is. I still don’t think I completely know what it is, however, it could be how something just is. How how something is supposed to be.

“The motion of the Way is to return.” When you go on a vacation, you leave. What always happens though? You come back. You return. This is showing that there are both opposites in one happening. That is because that is the way. “the use of the Way is to accept.” A person must first accept the Way to use it. They must learn how the way works. For example, you cant just jump in a pool and start swimming. You must first learn. Thats the way it works. 

“All things come from the way.” This one was hard for me to analyze. After a bit of thinking I thought of it as everything comes from something. It has to right? That lead me to the next line of course being “and the Way comes from nothing.” To be honest I have no idea what that means. Possibly the was just is. It is always there, and always will be. 

We went over this blog in my class, and this is just my thoughts on it.