Tao Te Ching

Chapter 14
[Original text]

Favor and disgrace [1] are astonishing, but expensive [2] are in serious trouble.

What is favor and disgrace?Favor is the top, disgrace is the bottom [3].To be surprised by what you gain, and to be surprised by what you lose, is to say that you are as surprised by flattery or humiliation.

What does it mean to be as expensive as yourself?The reason why I have a serious patient is because I have a body; and because I have no body, what trouble do I have?

Therefore, those who value their body as the world can entrust it to the world; those who love their body as the world can entrust it to the world.

【Note】

[1] Favor and disgrace: to be favored and humiliated.

[2] Expensive: regard it as expensive, value, value.

[3] Next: low, humble.

【Analysis】

When you are favored or insulted, it is like being frightened, and you regard serious problems as important as your own body.

What does it mean to be frightened when you are favored or insulted?In fact, being favored is not necessarily a happy thing, because being favored will worry about falling out of favor, and being out of favor is like being humiliated. Both gaining and losing are because of one's humble status and being inferior to others. This is why we say that being favored or being insulted Despicable things, and at the same time like being frightened.

What does it mean to regard a major ailment as important as your own body?The reason why we have serious troubles is because we have a body, and we are afraid that our body will be harmed, and that our body will perish; if we don’t have a body, then what is there to worry about?

Therefore, if a person regards the world as equally important as his own body, maybe he can entrust the world to him; if he forgets himself and only has the world in his heart, he can entrust the whole world to him completely.

In layman's terms, a person places too much emphasis on dignity, and honor and disgrace are also harmful to themselves. Many people think that being humiliated hurts their self-esteem. Feeling anxious about gains and losses will do a lot of damage to your heart and spirit.

It is human nature and instinct to value one's body, and people often think more about themselves.If a person treats the gains and losses, honors, disgraces, joys, and pains of the world as he treats his own body, then this person is qualified to govern the world; if this person cares about the world more than his own body, or even forgets his own body, Then it is wise to choose this person to govern the world.

【Explanation by Famous Artists】

Mr. He Shang:
The body is also shocked by the favor, and the body is also shocked by the humiliation.Expensive, fear also.If, to also.Fear of great trouble to the body, so everyone is shocked.

Ask what is favor and what is humiliation?Those who are favored are honored, those who are humiliated are disgraced.Those who ask themselves in return, know others.Humiliated as lowly.Those who are favored and frightened are in great danger.The expensive dare not be arrogant, the rich dare not be extravagant.Those who lose will be disgraced and disgraced.Those who are shocked are afraid that the disaster will come again.If you get it, you will be surprised, if you lose it, you will be surprised.

Ask yourself again: Why are you afraid of a big disaster?The reason why I have a big patient is because I am pregnant.If you have a body, you worry about your hard work, if you think about your hunger and cold, if you indulge your emotions, you will encounter disasters.Let me have no body, get the Tao naturally, lift up the clouds lightly, go in and out seamlessly, and communicate with the Tao, what trouble should I have?

It is said that a gentleman respects his body but a lowly person. If he wants to be the lord of the world, he can stand on his own, but not for a long time.It is said that the king can love his body, not for himself, but to be the parents of all people.Those who have become the master of the world in this way can entrust themselves to be above all peoples, and they will never be blamed.

(End of this chapter)