We suggest you turn to the Tao Teh Ching:
50 He who aims at life could achieve his death. Out of living, death pops up. Who comes to life can go to death. If three out of ten are life companions, then the same number are death companions as well. As such the latter are labelled death-spots: some take life, through activity, to death. How is it? Its much due to men's intensive striving after life; in part the intense activity of multiplying life. Some do feed life too grossly. It's said that he who is a good preserver of his life can meet no tigers or wild buffaloes on land. Such a one could have a true hold on life, If so, in battle or fighting he should hardly try to escape from weapons. He should neither get very much touched nor vulnerable to weapons in battle. [Cf. dont be there] The wild buffalo cannot butt its powerless horns against him, The tiger cannot fasten its then useless claws in him and tear him apart, And much absent weapons of war should find no place to enter - cannot thrust their blades into him. [The absent part is always to blame. Demagogy] And why? (Demagogy, thats why] In him there's no room for death because he is beyond death. Others find no Achilles heel in him then and there. -- tr. T. Byrn