Chapter 35 Summary

Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.

  • "Hold the great image / All under heaven will come," the TTC claims (35.1-2).
  • This could mean that if you're at one with the Tao, then people will come to you.
  • The next line adds that when they come, they'll come peacefully.
  • We're reminded that the Tao can't be tasted, seen, or heard.
  • Still, we can use it.
  • And it doesn't matter how much we use it since it will never run out.