Last Updated on January 16, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Can Yogis cure diseases medical doctors can’t cure?
Yoga means to bind body and mind together. But a disease where a personality is not bind together is Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia means a personality who is split in one way or the other. Yogis bind body and mind together. So can Yogis cure Schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis.
Major symptoms include hallucinations, typically hearing voices, delusions and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social withdrawal and flat affect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia
On the others hand Yogis as well as Jesus Christ and Swiss hermit Niklaus von Flue had visions as well, heared voices, and retreated from the society for shorter or longer periods. But still they became spiritual leaders who where highly appreciated by society. Some of these spiritual leaders where said to have the power to heal diseases.
The Yogis of Tibet demonstrate in the above video with different techniques, some of them are very artistic, how to achieve realization.
Some of these teachings are still secret teaching according to the video.
But the Dalai Lama asked Richard Davidson to investigate meditation practices with the latest scientific tools and if it shows that these practices are helpful for humanity to spread those practices widely.
It has been demonstrated by Richard Davidsons group and others that «well-being is a skill which can be learned». But still little is known about this research topic.
A key parameter in this are gamma waves in the left prefrontal cortex. A parameter which has been discussed with long-term meditation practitioners:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101
On the other hand the MRIS promotes the hypothesis that mental health can be trained.
Especially concerning mental diseases for which there is currently no therapy which is validated scientifically and clinically and is shown to be effective.
We suppose that long-term full time training with up to 13 years could be a therapy for such diseases. And studying this research topic would eventually lead to a social change. This social change could also be induced if we can proof convincingly and scientifically that money alone does not make happy. This has partly already been demonstrated, but should research in this field not be extended, especially in comparison to the effect of long-term meditation practice?
A question we have concerning the video is that the Dalai Lama the 14. th sais to a a long-term meditation practitioner to stop his meditation retreat and to start teaching. And the meditator in retreat did this.
But is the decision of the meditator in retreat compatible with the values of the enlightenment, with the values of the age of enlightenment?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment
Immanuel Kant answered the question: What is Enlightenment as following in the year 1784:
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
Have courage to use your own understanding.
https://www.nypl.org/sites/default/files/kant_whatisenlightenment.pdf
What was new for us personally and very interesting is that the Dalai Lama the 14 who is said to be the most realized living master of Tibetan Buddism has problems himself to keep his mind focused as he sais in the above video.
Did the Dalai Lama the 14 th not train his mind enough, or was there not enough time for this? The Yogi’s in above video said it better at their place than in Dharamsala, India where the Dalai Lama the 14 th lives an teaches. The Yogis in the video meditate in caves similar to Dilgo Kihenze Rhinpoche, who was one of the main teachers of the Dalai Lama the 14 th. Dilgo mediated for around 20 years of his life.