Chapter 50

People come forth and live; they go back in and die.

Out of every ten, three are agents of life; three are agents of death.

And three in every ten aim at life but move toward the land of death. Why? Because they try too hard to prolong life.

But I have heard that one who is skilled at tending the life entrusted to him can travel overland without avoiding rhinoceros or tiger, and enter a battle without needing armor or weapon. The rhinoceros finds no place to drive its horn, the tiger no place to sink its claws, the weapon no place to insert its point. Why? Because in him there is no place for death.