QUESTION (resumed) :
Do the teaching of zen allow to fight against anxiety, against angst and against some psychosomatic sicknesses? Anonymous
QUESTION (original) :
Je désirerais savoir si l'enseignement de zen permet de combattre l'anxiété, l'angoisse, et certaines maladies psychosomatiques. Merci de bien vouloir me répondre.
ANSWER :
The teaching of zen allows to see and entertain a different relationship with what is disturbing us or what is making us suffer usually. It is not necessary to want to always fight, but to become intimate and to find the deep cause of it. Angst or anxiety should not necessarily be perceived as a negative phenomenon, as the fever is not necessarily a negative phenomenon in a disease. Anyway, the finality of the zen practice is not the treatment of the psychological illnesses, it is better for the practice to be in good health, physical and psychological.
KOSEN!