Explanation of The Tao Te Ching Part Forty

“Returning is the motion of the Tao.
Yielding is the way of the Tao.
The ten thousand things are born of being.
Being is born of not being.”

The poetry of the Tao Te Ching to help the thinking grasp the unthinking. It makes sense in the heart even if it doesn’t in the head. 

It’s describing the perpetual motion of the rising and falling of existence how the entire universe rises into being, entropies and yields back into and is welcomed back to the Tao like waves into the sea.

Theres great comfort in this short passage as it helps us to realise that natures entropy is natural and yielding to it is to return home and is a place of refuge during existence.