5: Embracing Impartiality


Heaven and Earth are heartless

Treating creatures like straw dogs

Sages are heartless too

They treat people like straw dogs

Between Heaven and Earth

How like a bellows

Empty but inexhaustible

Each stroke produces more

Talking only wastes it

Better to protect what’s inside

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