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Is there a relationship between Zen and mental illness?

Master Kosen – Published on April 1 – health

Question

Is there a relationship between Zen and mental illness?

Anonymous

Master Kosen’s answer

First we must find the difference between madness and mental illness, between occasional, spontaneous madness and abnormal behavior that repeats increasingly often until it becomes chronic.

Kosen


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