Nowadays successful healing is considered as the cure of current physical problems like symptoms of cancer, AIDS, chronic fatigue syndrome or some other illness. If a person does not overcome this issue or develop at later times it is considered as failure in healing.
When a person does not cure his illness he may feel guilty, depressed or angry. Sometimes they lose their hope of recovery. To overcome this problem it is important to deeply understand that healing is not only linked with physical healing buddha but also we should work on ill-person mental healing.
Mind is originator
The concept of healing is spiritual in Buddhism. To understand mind healing we have to understand healing from buddhist opinion. According to it our mind is non-physical. Mind is shapeless, colorless, genderless, formless but it has the ability to recognize what is good or bad. Like a sun shines everywhere without impediment clear in the sky, our mind nature is also pure, limitless and pervasive.
The mind is the creator of sickness or health according to Buddhist perspective. All of our troubles are thought to have originated in the mind. As a result, the sickness can be identified as internal or external.
Limitless potential
In Buddhism the term karma is widely used which means action. Every action we take leaves behind cognitive imprints that have the potential to repeat at a later time. These actions can be good or bad or neutral. These actions are known as karmic seeds which are never lost. If you have a negative one you face it in the form of problems or sickness and for a positive one you will get its result in the form of happiness, health or success.
All happiness and suffering are created by karma. According to Buddhism everything that happens to us is the outcome of our previous actions not here in this life but in other lifetimes. If we have not done bad to some we don’t get sick or receive harm from others. What we chose to do today will occur to us in the future.
The main point is to guard our own actions or karma for present and future healing. This requires concentration and attention to all of our physical, verbal and mental behaviors. Any actions that are damaging to us or to other people should be avoided.
Healthy mind, healthy body
People with similar types of disease respond differently; some may heal from it or some die through it. Also people having the same kind of cancer respond differently to the same treatment whether it is typical treatment or an alternative. According to Buddhists the cause of disease should be treated first which arises from the mind along with intake of medicines or other forms of treatment. The sickness or problem will reoccur again and again if we dont clean and heal our mind. We must replace negative thoughts and their imprints with positive ones in order to heal the mind, which in turn will cure the body.
The inner enemy
Selfishness is the main cause of our problems and sickness. This is what we call an inner enemy. Negative actions are created by negative thoughts due to selfishness which leaves negative prints on our mind. These negative thoughts can be thoughts or actions of jealousy, anger and greed which arises from body, mind, speech.
Conclusions:
In nutshell we can say that healing of a person is linked with compassion, faith and pure morality. These are essential things to be considered while healing from disease.