r.i.p. lion
 
Between their births 
and their deaths, three out of ten 
are attached to life, three out of ten are 
attached to death, three out of ten are just 
idly passing through. Only one knows 
how to die and stay dead and 
still go on living.
 
That one 
hasn’t any ambitions,
hasn’t any ideas, makes no plans.
From this mysterious place of not-knowing 
and non-doing he gives birth to whatever is needed
 in the moment. Because he is constantly filling his being 
with nonbeing, he can travel the wilds without 
worrying about tigers or wild buffalo,
or he can cross a battlefield 
without armor or 
weapon.
 
No tiger can claw him.
No buffalo can gore him.
No weapon can pierce him.
 
Why is this so?
Because he has died, there 
isn’t any more room for 
death in him.
 
Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu, 
Chapter 50
 
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