Chapter 13

Favor and disgrace cause one to be startled; great calamities are regarded as one's own body. What does it mean that favor and disgrace cause one to be startled? Favor is something lowly. Obtaining it causes one to be startled; losing it also causes one to be startled. This is what is meant by favor and disgrace causing one to be startled. What does it mean that great calamities are regarded as one's own body? The reason I have great calamities is that I have this body. If I had no body, what calamities would I have? Therefore, one who values the world as much as his own body can be entrusted with the world. One who loves the world as much as his own body can be entrusted with the world.