Tao te Ching Chapter Five

Thomas Brill and Brian Parks chatting again.
This week we talked about chapter 5 of the Tao te Ching.

Heaven and Earth are not humane;
They regard the the thousand things as straw dogs.
The Sage is not humane;
He regards the common people as straw dogs.

The space between Heaven and Earth—is it not like a bellow?
It is empty and yet not depleted;
Move it and more [always] comes out.
Much learning means frequent exhaustions.
That's not so good as holding on to the mean.


Here is a link to the audio file for chapter 5 if you are not using iTunes.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/tao4two/TtCCh5.mp3