Book 1, Chapter 5

Useful Emptiness

People :

Author : Laozi (Lao-Tzu)

Translator : Ursula K. Le Guin

Text :

Heaven and earth aren’t humane.
To them the ten thousand things
are straw dogs.

Wise souls aren’t humane.[5]
To them the hundred families
are straw dogs.

Heaven and earth
act as a bellows:
Empty yet structured,
it moves, inexhaustibly giving.

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Chronology :

November 06, 2021 : Book 1, Chapter 5 -- Added.

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