When you are healthy the tongue is sensitive alive, throbbing, pulsating with energy. When you have a fever the tongue becomes dull. But that is not a state of health the tongue becomes dull only in illness. They are against taste they would like you to make your tongue absolutely dull so you don’t taste anything. Your so-called religions have tried to de-sensitize you, to make you dull. To be sensitive is to be intelligent, to be sensitive is to be alive. I am not against taste because I am not against the senses. If you eat slowly, tasting every bit of it, chewing well, you will be completely absorbed into it. If you enjoy your food you will eat less, there will be no need to compensate. Remember, the rule is: if you don’t enjoy your food you will have to eat more to compensate. My insistence is not on dieting but on awareness. If you are perfectly aware while you are eating, and enjoying it, you will never eat too much. The purpose of fasting is as a means, never as an end and that will happen rarely, once in a while. Then, too, remember always that your fast is in the service of feasting, so that you can eat well again. If sometimes you feel that a fast comes naturally – not as a law, not as a principle, not as a philosophy to be followed, not as a discipline to be imposed, but out of your natural feel for it – good. He would like to relieve himself his stomach is not in a condition to digest any more. It is not a question of principle, it is not a philosophy – he is ill, his whole being is against eating – rather than eat, he would like to vomit. He is not a Jaina, he is not a believer in fasting he does not feel like eating. Sometimes you may have observed your dog fasting: you put the food down and he will not eat. A fast can be used only when it comes naturally. Tao is to be natural: a feast and not a fast. The moment you start denying something you go against Tao. A man should not deny anything because the denied part will take revenge. I am not against your pleasures – they are not all there is, one should go beyond them, but in themselves they are beautiful. My whole approach is that of celebration. The first thing: I am not a believer in fasting, I believe in feasting. It should first be offered to the gods etc. It is said food quickens the sperm and is a sin to eat for the tongue. Tao is a rebellion, and the greatest rebellion possible.I see the swamis eat so well and so often, and haven't heard you mention anything about this diet. Tao respects the unique and not the crowd. Tao respects the individual and not the society. With Tao you have to go alone, you have to be alone. "Christianity, Hinduism, Mohammedanism are super-highways: you need not risk anything, you simply follow the crowd, you go with the mob. If you have the courage, that risk is there – it is risky, it is adventurous. You can be a Taoist if you simply live your life authentically, spontaneously if you have the courage to go into the unknown on your own, individual, not leaning on anybody, not following anybody, simply going into the dark night not knowing whether you will arrive anywhere or you will be lost. It is an organic religion but not an organised religion. "That's why Taoism is not an organised religion cannot be. Only by walking, only by living your life, will you find the Way. Buddha has walked, Lao Tzu has walked, Jesus has walked, but those ways are not going to help you because you are not Jesus, and you are not Lao Tzu, and you are not Lieh Tzu. And you will have to find it in your own way nobody else's way is going to function. It is not ready-made, available you cannot just decide to walk on it, you will have to find it. The bird has flown but no marks are left nobody can follow. The Way is not like a super-highway the Way is more like a bird flying in the sky – it leaves no marks behind. "Things become a little more complicated because they say: The Way has no map, the Way is not charted, the Way is not such that you can follow somebody and find it. Very simple is their message: You have to find the Way. Hence they don′t talk about the goal, they don′t talk about God, they don′t talk about moksha, nirvana.& enlightenment – no, not at all. It is not that when the Way ends you arrive at the goal each moment, wherever you are, you are at the goal if you are on the Way. If you know the Way you know the goal, because the goal is not at the very end of the Way, the goal is all over the Way – each moment and each step it is there. They say: The goal will take care of itself you need not worry about the goal. "Lieh Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu, the three Taoist Masters, only talk about the Way 'Tao' means the Way – they don′t talk about the goal at all.
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