| 5.1.1 |
Heaven-and-earth (is) not humane and
kind.
(It) treats all
things as straw dogs for sacrifice. |
| 5.1.2 |
The sage is not humane and
kind.
(He) treats the common
people as straw dogs for sacrifice. |
| 5.2.1 |
In
between heaven-and-earth,
is it like the bellow (and) tubes for
the furnace air blower? |
| 5.2.2 |
(It is) void (within) yet (it will) not bend
(and collapse).
(The more it) moves, and the more comes out (of
it). |
| 5.3 |
Speaking too much (about something brings) a
(dead) end to the numerological (changes of it).
Better keep to
the middle. |
