Please explain what this quote means, I knew before, and I feel as though I have completely forgotten?

Question:"He who knows how to live need not fear death. He can walk without fear of rhino or tiger. He will not be wounded in battle...In him the rhino can find no place to thrust his horn, the tiger no place to use his claws, and weapons no place to pierce...Because a man who knows how to live has no place for death to enter." - Master Po (quoting the TAO TE CHING chapter #50 [F])

Answers:
He doesn't need to fear death/death can't enter because he accepts death as a part of life which is inevitable (doesn't fear). Death can't really "enter" because of the fact that he understands death as a part of life which illustrates that it can't enter-as it is already there.
I think it means That His Inner Strength overcomes everything else. And that He doesn't fear death. Because he lives his life to his fullest not fearing death.
I think the explanation is there already. it means that if u r not afraid of death you will live ur life to the fullest
In my view there's more to this than simply not fearing death. There are plenty of numskulls who don't fear death, but they don't fit the description "he who knows how to live."

I believe that knowing how to live means living in the eternal now and "going with the flow." (That last bit is a VERY inadequate translation of a central idea in Taoism.)

One who lives that way has "no place for death to enter" because his existence is continuous and seamless. There is always only the now, which has neither beginning nor end.

This can be experienced as a state of consciousness or state of awareness, sometimes called enlightenment or nirvana.

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