fe i.g. a belief that your race is better (racism) or money can buy you happiness (consumerism) or your belief is only right. This illness is the most dificult to remedy and the cause of every severe violences in our world. For example, wars usually happen because of some conflict in belief or belongings.I've gone too far from the topic. However, what i gonna say is everybody has their spiritual illness and sometimes this cause them to haver psychological illness.
Back to my topic, Schizophrenia interests me. However, what i'm interested is not symtoms or remedies but causes. I once heard that the causes of this disorder is not be known yet. There are just some assumptions about how it happen. I have my own theory.
According to buddist knowledge, humans' sense, the way to get information about thing around them, has 6 component not just 5 as commonly known. It conprises visual contact(by eye), auditory contact(by ear), olfactory contact(by nose), gustatory contact(by tongee), physical contact (by body contact) and ,last but not least, mental contact (by mind). The first five contact require external sources of infomation but the last one, mental contact, does or doesn't require the external sources. It can work by its internal information generated by itself and espescially it can generate artificial sources of informatin for other five contact, one form of illusion. For example, dreaming is one example that your mental contact create other artificial contact when people dream although they sleep in the dark room ,they can see, hear, smell, touch ,listen or even think something never existing in that room. Hypnosis or even meditation, when you feel deeply focus on one thing, also cause some of this illusions which can be controlled by hypnotizer in hypnosis or by yourself in meditation . However, In psychological, the delusions created by the mental contact are uncontrollable. How does someone's mental contact creat this sort of illusion ? It takes very long time to tell; are you still eager to know?
Thanks you,P'James for your comment and suggestion in my blog. My mom sometimes does meditation but mostly she prays, which I think it's one way of meditaion because you have to concentrate on the hymn( I don't know if I use the right word)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, do you think when people meditate and they see things that we call "illusion", is it kind of mental creation or some supernatural being? Have you experience kind of that thing? I always want to know and want to see it by my self, I'm interested in sort of mystery, ghost, spirit. haha I've tried many time to do meditation by it never works, I can't stand it, sitting for long time.
There are two major branches of meditation development, tranquility (Samatra) and Insight (Vipasana) development. Praying is a kind of tranquility development. It affects you (calmness) while you are doing it but It may not have any impact in your normal life.
ReplyDeleteWow. It is very interesting. I haven't known about buddhism meditation, because my family is a Christian. I never have a oppurtunity to study about buddhism, though Korean traditional religion is buddhism. I would like to study about buddhism someday.
ReplyDeleteMeditation which can control the mind is also interesting. In Christianity, they also pray God, which has a talk with God. I think the pray also have a effect of controling the mind, so many Christian including my mother pray God everyday. However, looking my Christian friends' cass, I think that praying God is temporary. After praying, they seemed to be in peace but, it is temporary.
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu once said Christianity and Buddhism actually implicitly taught the same thing. However, at YBAT there are some international class on meditation in which many people from many religions attain.
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