Who is Talking, the Tao or Fear?

He was an aspiring spiritual path traveler, but somehow minded his receding hairline. When a colleague had a convincing hear transplant operation done, he decided he would give it a shot as well. When he told his mother about it, he was surprised about her opposition, 'Son, you have to accept your genes', she barked into the phone. He went for the first operation nevertheless, and dutifully took the medicine that some claimed could on occasions have serious side effects. Everything would have been perfect - his wife loved the results - had it not been for the fact that he banged his toe into a door in the morning of the operation. That seemed odd given that he happened to be a very well-coordinated athlete. More than that, his foot injury disappeared as magically as it came on the day when his scalped healed from the operation. 'This must be a message from the Tao that 'you are not your body', the spiritual aspirant concluded and promptly canceled his follow-up operation and quit taking his medicine as well.

What do you think? Do you think this was a message from the beyond to our spiritual aspirant, or was this a self-imposed injury that just reflected the insecurities of deviating from the path of righteousness, as expressed by the mother's protest or the spiritual super-ego, 'Your are not your body?' Of course I don't know either, each spiritual path traveler has to figure out these issues by herself, but I would say that in my experience it pays to take a few risks. The Tao is never vicious, but your fears are. The longer you travel a path, the better in tune you are with these decisions. You have got to wiggle yourself through life. Actually it was Sadhguru who said, 'whatever you do, go all the way'. There is no harm accumulating a little bad karma in the process. You need a little pain sometimes to remind yourself that we are here to wake up.If you faced eternal sunshine, you would only get complacent, right?