Laozi · Daodejing · 第十三章
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吾所以有大患者，為吾有身也
The reason I have great troubles is that I have a body.
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寵辱若驚，
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為吾有身也.
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莊子 · 在宥第十一故貴以身，莫若无為。无為也而後安其性命之情。故貴以身於為天下，則可以託天下；
莊子 · 寓言第二十七吾所以有彼吾所以有待邪？而況乎无待者乎！彼來則我與之來，彼往則我與之往，彼強陽則我與之強陽。強陽者又何
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論語 · Distinguish doing, being, and acting for禮之用，和為貴論語 · Distinguish doing, being, and acting for為政以德論語 · Focus on what an action concerns七十而從心所欲，不踰矩論語 · Focus on what an action concerns觀其所由，察其所安Edition, source, and reuse
- Work
- 老子 · Laozi · Daodejing
- Attribution
- Traditionally attributed to Laozi; composition and textual history are debated.
- Digital witness
- Kanseki Repository · KR5c0057 · base edition tls
- Contributors
- Kanseki Repository (Kanripo) contributors; upstream base-edition labels retained in each original file.
- Source position
- KR5c0057_013.txt, lines 14–28. LAO 13.1; tr. D.C. Lau 19i2: 19; tr. CH; here tr. Karlgren 1975
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