There is very little separation, even if there is a sense that the sky is impinging on the earth and not the other way around.

即便是有一种，天地相接的感觉,而不是其他的。

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I speak in a figurative way about the relationship between the earth and the sky, and I believe that there's a sky god.

我用一种修辞法,来说天地关系，我相信有一个天神。

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There is this sense of the concerns of the sky somehow, the concerns of the above; the concerns of the transcendent are seeping their way in to the concerns of the material world below.

这有种来自天空，来自天上的眷顾的感觉;,高高在上的天神一点一滴地,眷顾下面的物质世界。

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