Yippee!!! I get to post the first thread in the Taoism Section!!!

I will choose the concept of emptiness for my first thread.

In western society we view things very materialistic, but in taoism we view things (or should view things) the opposite way. We recognize that without the emptiness that surrounds the material thing, its shape, or the use of the object, would not be possible. This concept can be seen in chinese brush paintings, the actual focal point of the painting is the part that isn't painted. You paint around the focal point, and the emptiness is whats most important. Tao is like this, tao is emptiness, but because of it's emptiness, its use is magnified.

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The only constant in this universe is change. Are you ready to change??

I love the concept of emptiness, because it means more can come to you.

And not only that; there are so many things that are of no use without their emptiness.

Just a few examples:
A bottle without emptiness can't be filled.
A wheel without an empty centre can't be pushed onto the shaft.
A solid ring can't be worn.
A painter starts with an empty canvas.

Good analogy I expecially like the empty canvas.

And don't forget, without emptiness. We wouldn't be able to move, or do anything.

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The only constant in this universe is change. Are you ready to change??

It is really a complex matter of emptiness,I think emptiness requires us to keep our mind shaucha,to live in harmoney with nature.

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If I were a tear in your eye,I would fall down to your lip, kiss you!
I f you were a tear in my eye, I would never cry,because I am afraid to lose you!

without the fullness there is no emptiness- without the materialistic there is no spiritual- without disharmony there is no harmony- without inproperness or incorrectness there is no proper or correct- without should not there is no should... It is my understanding that all things arise from no-thing... Existence is a vibration of existence/non-existence in the same way that sound is a vibration of sound/silence and life a vibration of life/death. Let's revel in both the emptiness and the material that fills it, for they are identical.