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health: health is when there is no consciousness of the body. If there is any sort of consciousness of the body, then that part is not healthy.
The same applies to the mind. When your consciousness is healthy, there is no ego -- you don't know anything about yourself. You don't go on reminding yourself that 'I am something,' you simply relax. You are, but there is no 'I'. It is a simple 'am-ness', an 'is-ness', but there is no 'I', no crystallised ego. The self is not there.
SO, WHEN THE SHOE FITS, THE FOOT IS FORGOTTEN; WHEN THE BELT FITS, THE BELLY IS FORGOTTEN; AND WHEN THE HEART IS RIGHT, 'FOR' AND 'AGAINST' ARE FORGOTTEN.
This is one of the deepest things to be understood. When the heart is right, all 'for' and 'against' are forgotten. When the heart is wrong, ill, then you go on continuously being burdened, worried: this is right and that is wrong -- and the right should be followed, the wrong should be avoided. The whole of life becomes a struggle how to avoid the wrong and how to achieve the right. And this is not the way to achieve the right! This is the way to miss it forever.
Look.... You have anger, sex, greed. If you say anger is wrong then your whole life will be passed in an angry state. Sometimes you will be angry, and sometimes you will be angry because of your anger -- that will be the only difference. Sometimes you will be angry, and when the anger is gone you will be angry because of the anger; you call this repentance. And then you will decide never to be angry again, but you will be angry again, because both states are anger. Sometimes you are angry against someone else, sometimes you are angry against yourself because you were angry.
If you are against sex and you say that it is wrong, -- as the whole world has said -- then you will be sexual, and, after your sexuality has passed, you will feel guilty. In that guilt you will ponder and think about sex again and again; it will become cerebral. So sometimes you will be physically sexual, and sometimes cerebrally sexual -- sometimes sexual in the body, sometimes sexual in the mind.
Once you make a distinction, once you make a conflict, you will be divided.
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