The Sayings - I Once Felt Compassion

The Sayings of Chen Jen

Number Forty-Seven
I once felt compassion
for those without the Tao.

Then compassion
for those who felt compassion
for those without the Tao.

Then compassion for those
who felt compassion
for those who felt compassion
for those without the Tao.

Now I care not at all.
Yet nothing has changed.

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