Chapter 75
When people are born, they are soft and supple; in death, they become stiff and rigid.
All living things, the grasses and trees - in life they are soft and tender; in death they become withered and brittle.
Therefore, the hard and rigid are disciples of death; the soft and yielding are disciples of life.
Thus, when weapons are rigid they will not prevail; when a tree is rigid it will be broken.
The strong and great dwell below; the soft and weak dwell above.