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The concept of emptiness interests me because it makes a cycle, where things begin with emptiness and end with emptiness.
- Victor

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Expand on Natural Law & how it is a Confucian Concept... (was a clarification question)
How does natural phenomenons occur? (e.g. climate change)
All nature is in an interconnected cycle. All things are correlated.
-Eleftheria

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Humans, earth, the heavens, and the Dao are all interconnected in a natural hierarchy. I found this to be interesting as now days, it seems like the pattern has been disrupted. But, I also see how this contributes to the idea of humans being only a small part of the greater order of things, so we must follow the natural order of things by being with nature.

- dylan chae

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This topic is interesting because it focuses on the nature around a person and clearing ones mind of tumultuous thoughts. It allows people to reach higher wisdom by being able to focus on the world around us.
-Annika Martinez

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The idea of the being and non-being world kind of being combined. Losing yourself in the non-being world can be relaxing but also detrimental to your knowledge in the being world.
-bardin

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Through life people fail and succeed. In the poem the success is being failure is nonbeing. Success is the ability of being able to achieve and gain. While nonbeing represents failure because there is no loss  and there is no gain.
-Annika Martinez

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Failures and successes do nothing to change a person's value, or the inner pattern
- Victor

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The author is using idleness to clear his mind to come to more profound wisdom about the inner pattern. He has found the dark enigma of the hidden pattern. The author found clarity in the dark
-Annika Martinez

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Wu-wei is the act of doing nothing, (non-interference and being one with the Dao.) We must aspire to be ziran or our own nature. We must not interfere with our own self nature and nature itself.

-dylan chae

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The poem on page 49 is about existing in nature and enjoying nature. Here, the poet is isolated from humanity and in the civilization of nature. The poet takes the time, in silence, to be with nature and understand its mysterious and natural way. (Dao)

- dylan chae

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Deprivation of Deprivation Tao Te Ching Chapter 23

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Deprivation of Deprivation Tao Te Ching Chapter 23

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Willingly choosing to make sacrifices will avoid deprivation. If we put our trust into making our own sacrifices willingly, then we will be trusted in return to not have those deprivations affect us.
- Anika Louise Hernandez

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The author uses idleness to get closer to wisdom about himself and nature.  The poet is in the dark and finds a sense of coherence.
-Justin Mills