What are few and what are many?

These are denominations which

We employ in thanking donations

And dispensing gifts. Don't study

To be uniform in doing so—

It only shows how different you are

From the ways of naturalness.

Be severe and strict, like the sagely king

Who does not selfishly bestow

His favours on his many subjects.

Be scrupulous yet gentle,

Like the tutelary spirit of the place—

When sacrifice is offered to him

He does not bestow his blessing selfishly.

Be large-minded like space

Whose eight terminating points

Are illimitable and form

No particular enclosures.

Hold all things in your love,

Favouring and supporting them

Without any special or partial regard.

This is called “benevolence”

Or being thankful for what

You have got to pass it on.

From the standpoint of Mother Nature,

All things are equally regarded—

There is no long or short among them;

There is no end or beginning

In the natural way of being.

Things indeed die and are born,

Not reaching perfection of the form,

Which can be relied on for all eternity.

Now there’s emptiness and now fullness—

They do not continue in one convention.

The years cannot be reproduced;

Time cannot be arrested.

Decay and growth, heat and cold,

When they end, begin again.

It is thus that we describe the way

Of naturalness and discourse

About the principle pervading all entity.