The emptiness that holds whatever we want

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Gouache on panel (8*8)

“Emptiness” or rather, the space to be, an openness to allow things to arise, change, and relate.

“We join thirty spokes to the center of a wheel,
but it is the hole at the center
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.”

— Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11