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I n
recent years, medical-science has come to the realization that much—some say as
much as 80% or even more—of our
physical sickness and disease is psychosomatic or psychogenic—that is,
mental in origin. What a tremendous realization! Now it is possible to
go deeper, to the cause of the problems, instead of dealing merely with
their manifestations. This doesn’t mean it will be easy, of course,
because it requires, first and foremost, honesty, courage, and
willingness to ‘look within’.
For thousands of
years, Buddhism has taught much the same thing: that Mind is the culprit
behind the vast bulk of our suffering. We complain about and blame
others for things which happen to us that we don’t like, instead of
examining them objectively and maybe discovering thereby that very
often, we are suffering from our own limited way of looking at things;
how often, for example, do we imagine slights and insults where none was
intended, or become filled with worry and fear about what will happen if
…… ? Our propensity to do wrong, even though we know it to be wrong,
is another example of this; nobody makes us do wrong but ourselves. This
causes us anguish and disease, and we do it to ourselves.
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If you do
not like
to suffer,
you should
know
that much
of our
suffering
is
self-caused,
and can be
avoided
if we wake
up.
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