Tao Te Ching Verse 13: Serving Others by Detaching

Send us a textTao Te Ching Verse 13translated by Chao-Hsiu ChenAccept favour and disgrace as a threat that troubles the body like a disease.What does it mean to accept favour and disgrace as a threat?Everyone seeks to be favoured.No one seeks to be disgraced.When one receives it, it causes alarm.When one loses it, it causes alarm.Therefore favour and disgrace are both threatening.What does it mean that the disease troubles one's body?One suffers from the disease because one treasures one's bo...