The naturalist, individualist and politic doctrine of Lao-tse exhibited in 81 poetic and obscure texts. Tr. Waley (en), Lau (en), Julien (fr) and Wilhelm (de).
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Section De – Chapter L
He who aims at life achieves death.
If the “companions of life” are thirteen, so likewise are the “companions of death” thirteen.
How is it that the “death-stops” in man's life and activity are also thirteen?
It is because men feed life too grossly.
It is said that he who has a true hold on life, when he walks on land does not meet tigers or wild buffaloes; in battle he is not touched by weapons of war.
Indeed, a buffalo that attacked him would find nothing for its horns to butt, a tiger would find nothing for its claws to tear, a weapon would find no place for its point to enter in.
And why?
Because such men have no “death-spot” in them.
Waley 50
出生地, 入死地。人出生后, 长寿者占十分之三; 短命夭折者占十分之三; 本可长寿而自己跳入死地的又占十分之三。什么原因? 因为奉养太厚, 享受太多。
听说善于养身的人, 行于深山不会遇到犀牛虎豹的袭击, 打仗时不披挂兵甲。犀牛不愿用其角, 虎豹不忍用其爪, 敌兵无法向他下刀。为什么呢? 因为没有死地。
白话翻译
When going one way means life and going the other means death, threein ten will be comrades in life, three in ten will be comrades in death,and there are those who value life and as a result move into the realmof death, and these also number three in ten.
Why is this so? Because they set too much store by life.
I have heard it said that one who excels in safeguarding his own lifedoes not meet with rhinoceros or tiger when travelling on land nor is hetouched by weapons when charging into an army.
There is nowhere for the rhinoceros to pitch its horn;
There is nowhere for the tiger to place its claws;
There is nowhere for the weapon to lodge its blade.
Why is this so? Because for him there is no realm of death.
Lau 50
L'homme sort de la vie pour entrer dans la mort.
Il y a treize causes de vie et treize causes de mort40.
A peine est-il né que ces treize causes de mort l'entraînent rapidement au trépas.
Quelle en est la raison ? C'est qu'il veut vivre avec trop d'intensité.
Or j'ai appris que celui qui sait gouverner sa vie ne craint sur sa route ni le rhinocéros ni le tigre.
S'il entre dans une armée, il n'a besoin ni de cuirasse ni d'armes.
Le rhinocéros ne saurait où le frapper de sa corne, le tigre où le déchirer de ses ongles, le soldat où le percer de son glaive.
Quelle en est la cause ? Il est à l'abri de la mort41 !
Julien 50
Ausgehen ist Leben, eingehen ist Tod.
Gesellen des Lebens gibt es drei unter zehn,
Gesellen des Todes gibt es drei unter zehn.
Menschen, die leben
und dabei sich auf den Ort des Todes zubewegen,
gibt es auch drei unter zehn.
Was ist der Grund davon?
Weil sie ihres Lebens Steigerung erzeugen wollen.
Ich habe wohl gehört, wer gut das Leben zu führen weiß,
der wandert über Land
und trifft nicht Nashorn noch Tiger.
Er schreitet durch ein Heer
und meidet nicht Panzer und Waffen.
Das Nashorn findet nichts, worein es sein Horn bohren kann.
Der Tiger findet nichts,
darein er seine Krallen schlagen kann.
Die Waffe findet nichts, das ihre Schärfe aufnehmen kann.
Warum das?
Weil er keine sterbliche Stelle hat.
Wilhelm 50
The Way and Its Power – Dao De Jing II. 50. – Chinese off/on – Français/English
Alias Daode Jing, Dao De Jing, Tao Te Ching, Tao Teh Ching, le Tao-tö-king, Lao-Tzu Te-Tao Ching, the Laozi, Lao Zi, the Lao Tze, le Lao-tseu, The Book of the Way and its Virtue, the Way and its Power.
The Book of Odes, The Analects, Great Learning, Doctrine of the Mean, Three-characters book, The Book of Changes, The Way and its Power, 300 Tang Poems, The Art of War, Thirty-Six Strategies
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