078-Mental suffering - Buddhism in daily life

Mental suffering


Mental sufferings are becoming more and more widespread, they
have many faces and effects, in every age group people are
struggling with mental illnesses of all kinds. Depression,
disorders, anxiety, gloomy thoughts and sadness fall like shadows
on souls, the future becomes more and more a problem.


Teenagers develop eating disorders, adults live in aggression,
crises and burdens alternate with problems and quarrels, normal
life is history, just now the omens are chaos and storm. Then the
psyche falls ill much faster than usual, fears and stress
restrict the way of life more and more, a sick psyche brings new
fears, the cat bites its own tail.


An estimated 100 million people in Europe alone suffer from
depression, 150 million from various anxiety disorders. According
to Buddha, life consists of suffering, at least as long as one
has not left the perpetual sequence of suffering, has not yet
experienced "enlightenment".


Especially among young people the numbers are frightening, every
fifth child (or adolescent under the age of twenty) is affected
by psychological problems, behavioral problems of all kinds are
on the rise, psychological burdens develop into diseases.


Clearly, people are mostly without orientation, the old
structures are dissolving, the religious teachings that used to
dominate everything in this cultural area are losing more and
more members, new organizations have their difficulties, the
family has lost its significance, the feeling of belonging
together is lost in the urban canyons of the modern ghettos.


In addition, many of those affected remain silent about their
condition out of shame, also no longer see a way out, no longer
see the forest for the trees. I, for my part, take the natural
remedy "St. John's wort" on days when I have the blues (even with
Buddhists, not every day is the same, not everything is always
vain bliss and sunshine), if only to give a sign to my "I".


Who is once stuck in the spiral of silence of a mental illness,
who rarely finds out, the isolation worsens the conditions, the
treatment is delayed, more and more often suicide is then a
topic, the thoughts circle around more and more gloomy scenarios.


A not negligible part of the bad moods are the catastrophic
living conditions, alcohol, drugs, nicotine and bad nutrition
have a sour effect on the body, the system overacidifies. I know
what I am talking about, I was also overacidified in the past, I
have reduced the excess acid with Mayrkuren and alkaline powder.


The teaching of the teacher of all teachers is about the
sufferings, just and especially about the mental impairments,
which we (with the time often) inflict on ourselves in our
thought palace.


In any case, the way is the goal!





Birth is suffering, old age is suffering, sickness is suffering,
death is suffering, being separated from loved ones is suffering,
being united with unloved ones is suffering, not attaining what
one desires is suffering, grief, sorrow, pain, grief and despair
are suffering.


- Buddha - honorary name of Siddharta Gautama - 560 to 480





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