Chapter 12
IndexTreat favor and disgrace with equal alarm; value great trouble as you do your own self.
What does it mean to treat favor and disgrace with equal alarm?
Favor is inferior; receiving it causes alarm, losing it causes alarm. This is what it means to treat favor and disgrace with equal alarm.
What does it mean to value great trouble as one's own self?
The reason I have great trouble is because I have a self. If I had no self, what trouble would I have?
Therefore, value the self as if it were the world, and one may be entrusted with the world; love the self as if it were the world, and one may be entrusted with the world.