Friends:
On the 3
Types of Persons similar to Sick People:
The Blessed Buddha once
noted:
There are these three kinds of bodily sick people:
One, who will recover
by himself, even without any doctor
or any medicine..
One, who
will never recover, even if treated by the best doctor & best medicine..
One, who
will only recover if treated by right medicine and a good doctors
advice..
It is for the sake of this last person, that doctors work and medicine is
made!
It is similar with those mentally infected by illness
of greed, hate & ignorance!
There are these three kinds of mentally sick people:
One will cure & free himself, even without meeting this Buddha-Dhamma...
One will never be cured, even if taught this Dhamma by the Buddha himself...
One will be cured & freed, if & only if,
being taught & by learning this
Buddha-Dhamma...
It is for the sake of this last type of person, that this Dhamma should be
shared!
The Best Doctor treating one of his
disciples for a physical illness.
Mental Dis-Ease is found in almost all
beings!
The Kammic Causes of Disease:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Kamma_leading_to_Health_&_Sickness.htm
Source (abbreviated excerpt):
The Numerical Sayings of the Buddha.
Anguttara Nikāya. Sutta
III:22 The sick [I:120] Gilānā
http://www.pariyatti.com/book.cgi?prod_id=132552
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/canon/anguttara/index.html
Incurable or
not?
Updated:
27 Sep 2010
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/The_Three_Diseases.htm