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.
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Yet Heaven and Earth
And all the space between
Are like bellows:
Empty but inexhaustible,
Always producing more.
...
Longwinded speech is exhausting.
better to stay centered.
:thonk:
I'm not making this up lol, Chan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism that developed in China and eventually inspired Zen Buddhist thought in Japan.