Legge   13 
Favour and disgrace would seem equally to be feared; honour and 
great calamity, to be regarded as personal conditions (of the same 
kind). What is meant by speaking thus of favour and disgrace? Disgrace is 
being in a low position (after the enjoyment of favour). The getting 
that (favour) leads to the apprehension (of losing it), and the losing 
it leads to the fear of (still greater calamity):--this is what is 
meant by saying that favour and disgrace would seem equally to be 
feared. And what is meant by saying that honour and great calamity are to be 
(similarly) regarded as personal conditions? What makes me liable to 
great calamity is my having the body (which I call myself); if I had 
not the body, what great calamity could come to me? Therefore he who would administer the kingdom, honouring it as he 
honours his own person, may be employed to govern it, and he who would 
administer it with the love which he bears to his own person may be 
entrusted with it. 
Lau   13 
Favor and disgrace are things that startle; 
High rank is, like one's body, a source of great trouble. What is meant by saying favor and disgrace are things that startle? 
Favor when it is bestowed on a subject serves to startle as much as when it is withdrawn. 
This is what is meant by saying that favor and disgrace are things that startle. 
What is meant by saying that high rank is, like one's body, a source of great trouble? 
The reason I have great trouble is that I have a body. 
When I no longer have a body, what trouble have I? Hence he who values his body more than dominion over the empire can be entrusted with the empire. 
He who loves his body more than dominion over the empire can be given the custody of the empire. 
Feng/English   13
Accept disgrace willingly. 
Accept misfortune as the human condition. What do you mean by "Accept disgrace willingly"? 
Accept being unimportant. 
Do not be concerned with loss or gain. 
This is called "accepting disgrace willingly." What do you mean by "Accept misfortune as the human condition"? 
Misfortune comes from having a body. 
Without a body, how could there be misfortune? Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. 
Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.   Bill Porter (Red Pine) 13.
Favor and disgrace come with a warning 
honor and disaster come with a body
why do favor and disgrace come with a warning 
favor turns into disfavor
gaining it comes with a warning
losing it comes with a warning
thus do favor and disgrace come with a warning 
and why do honor and disaster come with a body 
the reason we have disaster
is because we have a body
if we didn't have a body
we wouldn't have disaster
thus those who honor their body more than the world 
can be entrusted with the world
those who cherish their body more than the world 
can be encharged with the world
  Jonathan Star 13
Be wary of both honour and disgrace?
Endless affliction is bound to the body?
What does it mean, Be wary of both honour and disgrace?
Honour is founded on disgrace and disgrace is rooted in honour
Both should be avoided
Both bind a man to this world
That's why it says, Be wary of both honour and disgrace?
What does it mean, Endless affliction is bound to the body?
Man's true self is eternal, yet he thinks, I am this body, I will soon die?
This false sense of self is the cause of all his sorrow
When a person does not identify himself with the body tell me, what troubles could touch him?
One who sees himself as everything is fit to be guardian of the world
One who loves himself as everyone is fit to be teacher of the world.
Flowing Hands transmission   13  
Accept disgrace willingly. 
Accept misfortune as the human condition. 
What do I mean by "accept disgrace willingly?" 
Accept being unimportant. 
Do not be concerned with wealth, titles, loss or gain. 
If you are not concerned with these, you can always "accept disgrace willingly". 
What do I mean by "accept misfortune as the human condition?" 
Without a body, how could there be misfortune! 
For misfortune arises from having a body 
Surrender yourself humbly, then you can be trusted to care for all things. 
Love the world as your own self, then you can truly be trusted to care for all things. 
 
 
Ni elucidation   13 Favor and disgrace are both causes of shock.
When one is favored, one is shocked.
When one is disgraced, one is also shocked.
That is because people forget the unadorned plainness of universal life.
If they knew this clearly, then what is meant by saying that favor and disgrace are both causes of shock?
Favor is no higher than disgrace.
What is meant by saying that the greatest trouble is the strong sense of individual self that people carry in all circumstances?
People are beset with great trouble because they define their lives so narrowly.
If they forsake their narrow sense of self and live wholly, then what can they call trouble?
Therefore, only one who dedicates himself to the wholeness of the world is fit to tend the world.
Only one who relinquishes the self can be entrusted with responsibility for the life of the world.