Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
- Our next nugget of wisdom is that the Tao is empty.
- But it's not like empty empty, because it's also the source of all things.
- Eventually, the Tao has its way with everything.
- Sharp things gets dull.
- Knots come loose.
- Lights go dim.
- The dust of everything mixes together.
- You could see this as a "time heals all" or a "time destroys all" kind of thought.
- Since the Tao is everything, it's hard to recognize… but it still exists.
- Nobody knows where it comes from because it is older than everything.
- It's even older than the Emperor, which probably references the Jade Emperor, the ultimate god in ancient Chinese Mythology.
- (Wow, so the Tao is older than God. We wonder if it needs a wheelchair ramp to get into its house.)