<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><i>The Uses of Not</i><span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Thirty Spokes<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">meet in the hub.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Where the wheel isn<span style="font-family:"WP TypographicSymbols"">=</span>t<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">is where it<span style="font-family:"WP TypographicSymbols"">=</span>s
useful.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Hollowed out<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">clay makes a pot.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Where the pot<span style="font-family:"WP TypographicSymbols"">=</span>s
not<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">is where it is useful.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Cut doors and windows<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">to make a room.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Where the room isn<span style="font-family:"WP TypographicSymbols"">=</span>t<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">there<span style="font-family:"WP TypographicSymbols"">=</span>s
room for you.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">So the profit in what is<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">is in the use of what isn<span style="font-family:"WP TypographicSymbols"">=</span>t.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Lao tzu: tao te ching</i><span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span>................................................................................. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">A circle of people with nothing in the middle. To the casual
observer the scene is prosaic, odd, even boring. To those in the circle the
feelings are different: fear, expectation, confusion, disorientation, anxiety,
disbelief. How did we get here and what do we do?<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Moments later the circle breaks and people flood to the
center creating the elements of a new story they will tell each other about
their dreams and expectations and how they might be fulfilled.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">The shift in mood and mode is swift, almost passing notice
of that casual observer. Something is created out of nothing... in an instant.<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">How?<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">Could it be<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">the power<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal">of not?<span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>

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