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Emerging into life, entering into death. |
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The paths of life, |
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thirteen; |
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the paths of death, |
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thirteen; |
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human life, |
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driven into a place of death, |
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thirteen. |
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Why is this? |
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Because of their life, |
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the thickness of life. |
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It is heard that those skilled in preserving life, |
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traveling by land, encounter no rhinoceros or tiger; |
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entering an army, are not touched by arms and armor; |
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the rhinoceros has nowhere to thrust its horn, |
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the tiger has nowhere to plant its claws, |
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the weapon has nowhere to lodge its blade. |
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Why is this? |
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Because they have no place of death. |