10,000
Tao Te Ching (verse 34)
The great Tao covers everything like a flood.
It flows to the left and to the right.
The ten thousand things depend upon it
and it denies none of them.
It accomplishes its task yet claims no reward.
It clothes and feeds the ten thousand things
yet it does not attempt to control them.
Therefore, it may be called "the little."
The ten thousand things return to it,
even though it does not control them.
Therefore, it may be called "the great."
So it is that the True Person does not wish to be great
and therefore becomes truly great.
jp: "Many would respond, I'm sure, by asking you what on earth use is this highly abstract information about nothingness and somethingness (with its '10,000 things' - the latter being a euphemism for the countless myriad elements which compose boundless manifestation)?"
jp 14-10-11.
