Favour and Disgrace are likely to cause a fear

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Favour and disgrace are likely to cause a fear.

Highly respect great trouble as one respects hi own body.

What is meant by favour' and disgrace'

    are likely to cause fear"?

Favour is for the inferior:

    Obtaining it, one will fear it.

    Losing it, one will fear it.

This means that 'favour and disgrace'

    are likely to cause fear."

What is meant by 'highly respecting great trouble

    as one respects his own body"?

    "I have great trouble because I have a body;

    When I no longer have a body, how can I have trouble?"

Therefore, one who respects himself for the world

    can be lodged with it;

One who loves himself for the world

    can be entrusted with it."

Lao Tzue


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