Daniel Medvedov

TAO TE CHINGChapter 50English translation from ChineseRe-edited by Richard Strauss

MadridBoston

2010

50.To exit is to live,To enter is to die . . .Thirteen accompanies you throughout your life,Accompanying you at death, too . . .How could that be so?People believing that thirteen pertains only to death and not to life,Waste their lives away in this belief . . .Yet the one who knows the art of caring for his life,Fears not tigers when he travels,Nor the weapons of an enemy in battle . . .No rhinoceros can find a how or where to gore him,Nor a tiger to tear at him,And a sword has no place to wound him,

Why? Because not one of them,Can find in him,A death spot . . .

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