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A Study Of Mental Healthy Thoughts In Chan

Posted on:2013-06-20Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S F TanFull Text:PDF
GTID:2235330374488230Subject:Applied Psychology
Abstract/Summary:
Although the chinese did not put forward the concept of mental health, but all through the ages,the chinese ancient pay much attention to discuss the people’s psychological phenomena, the broad and profound chinese traditional culture contains rich psychological thoughts which still deeply influenced the chinese attitude toward life, thinking and behavior.The Chinese Buddhism advocated a presence beyond the meaning of life,deeply revealing the bitter life reasons, telling the apprentice the real happiness lies in the "Nirvana", its way is through the moral cultivation and practice to enhance the spiritual realm, thus entering the nirvana silence that is characteristics of eternal,happy,actual self and clean. The mercy view of buddhist teaching people to correctly deal with the relationship between oneself, other people and the environment, achieving interpersonal harmony and social adaptation;.the ideal personality paradigm of the buddha and its way to realize it all teach people to be self-realized and integrated development of physical and mental.compared with the two standards of adaptation and development in the modern psychology to measure mental health,the two are with the different approaches but equally satisfactory results.Thus the author has used the research methods of literature study, reading a large number of buddhist writings, chan classics and psychology books, then finding Chan has been committed to through three aspects of the guardian heart, Elimination of troubles and perfect personality to promote human’s mental health. This paper aims at reconstructing chan with using the frame of modern psychology theory replaced the complicated theory of Buddhism.from four aspects of psychosomatic integral view, mental health standard, psychotherapy and ideal personality, deeply digging the concept of mental health in chan; Finally, discusses the view of psychological health in chan which enlightening the modern people. With a unique perspective to strengthen the fusion of eastern and western psychological thoughts, also hoping that more researchers can pay attention to Zen psychology, attaches importance to the traditional oriental culture which containing profound wisdom, more hoping this paper can be beneficial for the current research of mental health theory...
Keywords/Search Tags:chan, mental health thoughts, mental health standards, localization, psychotherapy thoughts
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