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Depression According To Zen

Depression is a disease of the mind. Zen, esteem.
which is about mental state, may offer a Longing for something you cannot have
new perspective of the disease. creates pain. In life, pain occurs when
Millions of people are suffering from expectations are not met. In Zen, every
depression. It is one of the most common moment remains with that moment. For this
mental disorders that may adversely reason, everything is changing, and
affect mental health. There are several impermanent. To desire or crave
current theories about the causes of permanence from something impermanent is
depression: hereditary predisposition, a disease of the mind. This is the real
chemical imbalances, or hormonal changes. cause of depression.
A more widely accepted theory of the Once the pain is created, an individual
cause of depression is � distorted (or the psychiatrist) begins to seek
thinking. Depression is deep internal analysis and explanation of the pain,
pain initiated by disturbed thinking, hoping to find a solution to the problem.
which may or may not be due to chemical According to Zen, life is never a problem
imbalance of the mind. Zen offers an to be solved. Life never has a problem,
interesting explanation of this disease and if there is a problem, that is
of the mind. because you have created it for yourself.
Zen is NOT a religious belief. Despite Once you have created a problem, you need
having its origin from Buddha, Zen is not a solution to the problem. In attempting
the foundation of Buddhism. Zen is an to solve the problem, you begin to
enlightened mental state focusing on the analyze the problem and examine the
present moment. options available to solve the problem,
First of all, according to Zen, there is thus generating stress, which only
no such a disease as "depression." Zen intensifies the problem. Compounding
does not label an individual as "sick" or problems triggers depression in an
"mentally ill." According to Zen, individual.
sickness is just a human condition, and It is human instinct to avoid pain. By
any "labeling" only compounds the problem avoiding pain, you subconsciously create
of sickness. more problems requiring more solutions.
Many individuals suffering from Unlike modern psychiatry, the way of Zen
depression have a distorted perception of is not to question, analyze, or dwell
self-worth. Instead of accepting who they upon pain. If you do, you are in fact
are, they want to be what they wish they creating the setting for suffering.
would like to become. Their hunger for According to Zen, you must accept the
the verisimilitude of realty often good as well as the bad in life; in other
fosters delusions and a host of other words, pain is natural. Just learn how to
mental problems, such as confusion and receive it. Pain is not avoidable in
distress. Zen focuses on who you are, life, but suffering is. If you dwell upon
rather than your "desire" to be somebody pain, you perpetuate the suffering.
else. Zen purges the mind of any low self




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