Tao – 5 Heaven and Earth are not kind


The ten thousand things are straw dogs to them.

 

Sages are not kind:

People are straw dogs to them.

 

Yet Heaven and Earth and all the space between

Are like a bellows:

Empty but inexhaustible,

Always producing more.

 

Longwinded speech is exhausting

Better to stay centered.



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