The Path Beyond Fear
Most people live in fear, chasing life or fleeing death. But the one who follows the Tao moves fearlessly through the world — untouched by harm, because he carries no fear within.
We are born, we live, we die.
Of every ten,
three cling to life,
three race toward death,
and three destroy themselves
trying too hard to avoid it.
Why?
Because they fear death
and fight life.
But one who lives with the Tao
walks through the world
without fear.
The tiger does not maul him.
The blade finds no place to cut.
The rhino turns away.
He carries no death within —
so nothing outside
can harm him.
