Chapter 13

Great favor and disgrace startle alike. Prize great troubles as you do your body. What do I mean by “great favor and disgrace startle alike?” When an inferior receives a superior’s favor, he is startled when he gets it, and startled when he loses it. That is the meaning of “great favor and disgrace startle alike.” What do I mean by “prize great troubles as you do your body?” The only reason I have great troubles is because I have a body; if I had no body, what trouble would I have? Therefore, he who prizes his body as if it were the world can be given charge of the world. He who loves his body as if it were the world can be entrusted with the world.