"Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom;
yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom;
seek learning, even by study and also by faith."
Doctrine and Covenants 88:118

"And the gatherer sought to find pleasing words, worthy writings, words of Truth."
Ecclesiastes 12:10



Thursday, January 14, 2016

Tao Te Ching - Verse 11

一      yī     one


Using Jonathan Star's Tao Te Ching as a tool to look at the individual characters of a passage gives one some idea of the terse, polyvalent qualities of the original.  The first phrase of verse 11 parses literally as something like "thirty spokes share one hub."


Jonathan Star
      "thirty spokes of a wheel all join at a common hub"
Robert Henricks
     "thirty spokes unite in one hub"
R. B. Blakney
     "thirty spokes will converge in the hub of a wheel"
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