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an atomic cell. Who are you to force the whole to move according to you?
This is most dangerous for people who are religious, for people who are moralistic puritans. This is a most dangerous message. This means break all the barriers, allow nature to erupt -- dangerous it is.
I have heard that a head nurse was introducing a new nurse, who had just come from college, to the hospital. She was taking her around the hospital to show it to her. She introduced the various wards: this is a cancer ward, this is a tuberculosis ward, and others and others. Then she came to a big hall, and she said: Look, and remember well, this is the most dangerous ward of all, this is the dangerous ward. The new nurse looked, but she couldn't see what the danger was. So she asked: What is the matter? Why is this the most dangerous ward? Even in the cancer ward you didn't say that it was dangerous. The head nurse laughed and she said: These people are almost healthy, that's why this is the most dangerous ward. So be alert -- health is always dangerous.
Priests are afraid of health because health is immoral in their eyes. You may or may not have heard of one of the thinkers of this century, a German thinker, very famous in his day -- Count Keyserling. He was thought to be a great religious philosopher and he wrote in his diary: Health is the most immoral thing. Because health is energy, and energy is delight, energy is enjoyment, energy is love, energy is sex, energy is everything that is natural. Destroy the energy, make it feeble and dim. Hence so many fasts -- just to destroy the energy, just to prevent so much energy from arising that it starts overflowing.
Religious people have always thought that health is dangerous. Then to be unhealthy becomes a spiritual goal.
I repeat again, Chuang Tzu is very rebellious. He says: Nature, energy and the ecstasy that comes by overflowing, and the balance that happens spontaneously, is enough. There is no need for effort, So much beauty happens all around in nature without any effort: a rose is beautiful without any effort, a cuckoo goes on singing without any effort.... Look at a deer, alive, full of energy, fast.
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