Born to Die?
Engineered and produced for a mere game of die?
"Ainsi font, font, font
Les petites marionnettes
Ainsi font, font, font
Trois p’tits tours et puis s’en vont"
— chanson des marionnettes
道德經
《道德經》
第五十章
出生入死
To be born is to enter death
生之徒十有三
3 out of a produced 10 are life worshippers
死之徒十有三
3 out of 10 are necrophile
人之生動之死地亦十有三
For 3 out of 10 vitality is but a deathtrap
夫何故?
以其生生之厚
蓋聞善攝生者
陸行不遇兕
虎入軍不被甲兵
兕無所投其角
虎無所措其爪
兵無所容其刃
夫何故?
以其無死地.
No Death Claim
Dao De Jing Chapter fifty — Ronald Hogan
50.
People who look
for the secret of long life
wind up dead.
Their bodies are the focus of their lives
and the source of their death,
because they think a healthy body
is all there is to life.
老子 used to say
a man who truly understood life
could walk through the jungle
without fear
or across a battlefield
without armour, totally unarmed.
Wild animals and weapons couldn't kill him.
I know, I know:
what the hell does that mean?
"Well, he couldn't be killed,"
老子 said,
"because his body
wasn't where he kept his death."
道德經 Dao De Jing Chapter fifty — Translated by 木村康 Yasuhiko Genku Kimura
Chapter 50
"Life is appearance; death is disappearance.
Three out of ten live a long life.
Three out of ten live a short life.
Three out of ten bring upon themselves an untimely death,
Because they cling too much to the outer pleasures of life.
He who maintains a balanced life in accordance with the 道
Does not meet tigers or rhinoceroses in the wilderness,
Does not suffer attacks from the enemy on the battlefield.
Upon him, the tiger has no place to fasten its claws,
The rhinoceros has no place to jab its horn,
The weapon has no place to pierce its blade.
Why is this so?
Because in him there is no room for death to enter."
道德經 Dao De Jing Chapter fifty — Translated by Thomas Cleary
Chapter 50
"Exiting life, we enter death.
The followers of life are three out of ten,
the followers of death are three out of ten;
in the lives of the people, the dying grounds on which they are agitated are also three out of ten.
What is the reason?
Because of the seriousness with which they take life as life.
It has been said that those who maintain life well
do not meet rhinos or tigers on land and
do not arm themselves in war.
There is no way for rhinos to gore them;
there is no way for tigers to claw them;
there is no way for weapons to get at them.
Why?
Because they have no dying ground."
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