천태지관(天台止觀)을 통한 심리치료법의 고찰

Abstract

Nowadays, many people are suffering from a variety of stresses, greed,anger, ignorance and suppression, with lots of mental disorders. In the T'ien-tai Sect, they found causes leading to many mental disorders atthe time in defilements etc, so called Klesa. At first, in Ci-di-chan-men(次第禪門), it shows the cause of defilement andtherapies in diversity. That is, vitarka(覺觀), can be a treatment with how tobreath. Greed can be curable through seeing impurity, meditation ofcompassion for anger, consideration of all the karmas for ignorance, Buddhistprayer for bad habits. With those ways, we can know that it is so effective tosolve the problems of instability, uneasy disability, depression, muscle stress,headache, grinch, and heart disease etc. And also in the Mo-ho chih-kuan(摩訶止觀), it sees the seed of the cause ofhabits, the work of the habit power, and the instigation of devils, as the causeof defilements. As the work of the cause of habits, and the habit power wasalready mentioned in Ci-di-chan-men(次第禪門), so I looked into the instigationof ghosts and devils. Especially, from the point of modern medical scienceview, ghosts usually come into our bodies as infectious diseases whenresistance falls down, it's sometimes mentioned as, so called bacteria, and alsoas the part of mental illness. For such diseases, I think that it can bring a bigeffect taking some doses simultaneously rather than only reciting mantras,even though it’s also good for the illnesses. Devils can be divided into Chucheok, Simi, and Mara. The Chucheok isconsidered as a ghost crawling or clinging to human bodies for the work ofphysical, chemical, and biological stresses. For the cope, strong will powerand strict religious precepts can cure diseases of the uneasy disability or theisolation from the reality. The Simi is expressed as a figure of ghost for thedestruction of certain biorhythm which is shown periodically to the sensitivityand intelligence of human bodies in the activities of human lives. And also the crisis of 12 hours rhythm or body rhythm brings about thestupor of hormone systems and, in the end, it comes to the generation ofbenign tumor, and causes a depression into excess. For the cope of such adisease, it is to confirm the Simi which comes in at the certain time, and callits name by checking the disorder in the body rhythm, then the person recovershis health again. The Mara means a strong stress, and it brings a disorder inthe hormone system. For the cope against the Mara, we should implementpractice which tells that the devils are originally not exist because they arevacant, ultimately, to understand the truth that the border between Buddha andDevil is not two. As removing the defilements with the T'ien-tai practice, I believe that wecan cure various mental disorders that contemporary people have. For thosemethods, I think it is not totally different from MBSR, MBCT, DBT and ACTetc as a psychotherapy.