The Tao Without Me

Being favored or disgraced both feel like a shock. We treat great trouble as if it mattered as much as our own body. What does it mean that being favored or disgraced feels like a shock? Favor is actually something lowly. When you get it, you feel uneasy; when you lose it, you feel uneasy. That is what it means. What does it mean to treat great trouble as if it mattered as much as your own body? The reason I have great trouble is that I have a body. If I no longer cling to my body, what trouble would I have? So only one who values his own body as much as the whole world can be trusted with the world. Only one who cares for his own body as much as the whole world can be entrusted with the world.