Prevention is always better than cure. If there is no disease,
where is the need for a cure or even a doctor?
Take the step of maintaining optimal health and wellness in the body,
the mind, and the soul, irrespective of your current conditions of health.
Nobody
knows your body better than yourself; you have been living with it for years,
if not decades. It is more than just treating a disease: it is also using that
disease as a tool for understanding yourself—or, more specifically, why
you are sick in the first place. It may give you the knowledge and wisdom to
live in balance and harmony, thereby instrumental in initiating your healing
with or without your doctor.
Remember,
you do not have to follow any specific program or even the advice of anyone,
maybe even including that of your doctor.
An
Illustration
You
need not follow the advice of former President
Bill Clinton with respect to his dramatic weight loss—simply because you
are not Bill Clinton, and your body’s constitution is not the same as that of
his. Therefore, what is good for Bill Clinton may not necessarily be good for
yourself. Nor do you have to impose any deliberate discipline on yourself. The
reason is that any imposition may stimulate your inherent resistant nature.
Discovering your own sensitivity to life is often more important than rigidity.
The
TAO Wisdom
According to the TAO, the wisdom of Lao Tzu, the ancient sage from
China
Wisdom, which is invisible, intangible, and invaluable, is emptiness,
which comes only from an empty mind:
“The spokes and the hub are the visible parts of a wheel.
Clay is the visible material of a pot, which is useful
because it contains.
Walls, doors, and windows are visible parts of a house.
We always look for the visible and the tangible without.
But what really matters is the invisible and the
intangible within.”
(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 11)
According
to the TAO, to attain knowledge, add things every day, but to attain wisdom,
remove things every day:
“Seeking the Creator,
we give up something every day.
The less we have,
the less we need to strain and strive
until we need to do nothing.
Allowing things to come and go,
following their natural laws,
we gain everything.
Straining and striving,
we lose everything.”
(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 48)
The explanation is that “less is for more” and not “more
is for more” according to the contemporary thinking:
“Without going out the door, we know the world.
Without looking out the window, we see the Creator.
The more we look outside ourselves,
the less we know about anything.
Trusting the Creator, the ancient prophets
knew without doing, understood without seeing.
Trusting the Creator, we accomplish without striving.”
(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 47)
On
your healing journey, you just have to learn, unlearn, and relearn from anyone,
anything, and any situation:
“Everything that
happens to us is beneficial.
Everything that we
experience is instructional.
Everyone that we meet,
good or bad, becomes our teacher or student.
We learn from both the
good and the bad.
So, stop picking and
choosing.
Everything is a manifestation of the
mysteries of creation.”
(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 27)
he
healing process, you do not set any goal or have any objective in your
learning, unlearning, and relearning. The explanation is that setting any goal
or having any objective will make you judge and choose, and thereby
instrumental in pre-conditioning your thinking mind with respect to your
learning, unlearning, and relearning:
“The foolish all have
goals.
The wise are humble
and stubborn.
They alone trust the
Creator,
and not the world He
created.”
(Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 20)
To sum up, on your healing journey, you need to have an empty mind to learn,
unlearn, and relearn everything about your health. After all, it is your health, and only you have the answers to why you may be
unhealthy, and how you may heal yourself.
Stephen Lau
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