An ancient book that comments on how to live physically healthy

[charlie cho]

Reading Chuang Tzu's parables, he talks about what it takes to live a long and healthy life often. His emphasis is never about any tips and tricks. His emphasis lies on the mentality people need to acquire in order to lead a long happy life. 

I have hypochondria. I initially thought "worrying" about health will help me get my health in order. In other words, I thought obsessing with the thought "how to be healthy" was going to help me actually be healthy. I think I'm wrong because, upon reading Chuang Tzu's book, he again and again implies one cannot be fully healthy unless one is enlightened - saying you need to be one with Tao, the natural, to let your body to not become twisted like the masses of the population. Obviously, one can infer in the text that with hypochondria, one cannot achieve a long lasting healthy life. With that affirmation from Chuang Tzu, I now have the confidence to take action in discarding my inclination to "try and achieve a healthy body". 

If you guys struggle with hypochondria, or just want to understand what health is in general, I highly recommend this book. It does talk about other subjects more than just health, but, even then, they are really interesting and are worth a read, for Chuang Tzu, like Nietzsche and OSHO, being a highly intellectual person and a famous scholar at the time, he philosophizes or states his words like a hammer. He is not interested in making your intellectual. You can literally feel his texts hammer on your head and destroy your own misconceptions. It's as if he mastered the art of writing while he was in school that he came to the point where he can use that as a tool to help you destroy limiting beliefs.  

Edited February 15, 2021 by charlie cho