Q:
If a person likes very, very cold weather, let’s say zero degrees Farenheit, is he allowed to go outside and enjoy the weather and breathe in deeply to get the fresh air?
A:
This question I don’t really understand, but I’ll try to answer it anyhow.
If a person enjoys cold weather, should he go out and breathe deeply and enjoy it?
It depends on his constitution. If he can take it, why not? No question, cold air is good clean air.
That’s one of the reasons for cold. Cold helps to purify the air. Cold inhibits certain organisms from growing. In the air, there’s dust; little dust particles are flying through the air all the time. And these little dust particles are airplanes on which microbes are sitting. No question about that. And so the microbes are flying through the air all the time. But when it’s cold, they cannot increase or multiply and they’re limited in extent. Therefore, your body is able to combat the influence of a small amount of germs that are in the air.
And so, if you can breathe the fresh air of the cold weather, more strength to you.
If your constitution, however, is not able to take it, so look through the window and enjoy the cold air through the window pane.
Why do I say that? Because cold weather is good for the earth. So you’ll enjoy it from inside because the cold is causing the earth to stop producing. It’s only during the wintertime that the earth regains all of the materials that it lost in the summertime. And those materials are now in the earth and they’re decomposing—the snow and the rain help the process of the breakdown; all the compost, the leaves, everything else, is breaking down and it’s being now amalgamated again with the soil. The soil becomes rich again and next spring it’ll come out again.
So therefore, the cold is beneficial for the soil. So you want to enjoy the cold that way, behind your window? Also good.
(January 1990)
