Personality Concept: Zen-buddhism Mindfulness Value

Abstract

The main of this study is critically evaluates the Zen-Buddhism Mindfulness personality concept. Bodhidharma is responsible for carrying Zen Buddhism from India into China. Zen-Buddhism principles point out reality from dielectric point of view. This approach is very beneficial in treating individuals having mental disorder problems. As there are various positive factors about this approach. This study clearly identifies the contribution of this concept to personality psychology. However, limitations and the weakness of this concept will also be discussed in the study. There are various courses offered by meditation expert order to help people which are suffering from mental issues for behavioural issues. This meditation helps to understand the reality of life and trying to interpret them. This personality trait belongs old century and no effective changes have been seen in this practice as per the requirements of 21st century.

Introduction

This study critically evaluates the Zen-Buddhism Mindfulness personality concept. Bodhidharma is documented as one of the monk who is responsible for carrying Zen Buddhism from India into China. Bodhidharma was also present throughout the building of the Shaolin Temple, and he was considered as the first three monks of the there. During the time in Shaolin Temple he spent many years in meditation, staring at the partition of the cave (Masuda & Sargent, 2017). Bodhidharma is also accredited with evolving kung-fu, which is the well-known soldierly arts method. This technique helps the temple monks to guard themselves from the bandits. Zen-Buddhism is developed in the 6th century BC in the China. Zen strains inspection and individual discipline as a path into becoming Buddha, over spiritual rituals. This study clearly identifies the contribution of this concept to personality psychology. However, limitations and the weakness of this concept will also be discussed in the study.

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Zen-Buddhism principles and mindfulness practice was developed as one of the treatments for personality disorder. Zen-Buddhism principles point out reality from dielectric point of view. This approach is very beneficial in treating individuals having mental disorder problems. As there are various positive factors about this approach. It develops ethics that come inside meditation and wisdom in an individual (Fung & Wong, 2017). It eradicates the birth of ego personality issue in an individual and guides him a path of truth and meditation. It recognises various domains of conciseness that comprises of heaven, animal, human, hunger and hell. It awaits an individual and show him the path of love compassion appreciation Joy equanimity etc. Zen Buddhist largely focuses on the method of practicing them. The most effective way of teaching Zen is communicating directly from master to pupil. Zen practices are aimed at taking the balance and intellectual mind a way of the mental look in order to make an individual more aware of Buddha nature.

There are various characteristics of Zen Buddhist concept such as impermanence, selflessness and dissatisfaction. These three characteristics change the personality of an individual. Impermanence refers to the constant change in the life of an individual and nothing remains same in entire life (Šamánková, Preiss & Příhodová, 2018). However, nothing physical last forever as per the Buddha the only thing which is constant is the changing time. The primary feature of the entire universe is the changes which everyone needs to accept and move forward. This characteristic helps an individual to accept the reality and move forward with new hopes goals and objectives. The second characteristics of Zen Buddhism are the selflessness. This refers to the dedication that every individual should do their work and something productive without seeing selflessness in any work. The last characteristics of Zen Buddhism existence is satisfaction and avoids pain and seek out pleasure in everything. Zen principles and mindfulness practice is used in the dialectical behaviour therapy. Behaviour therapy and Buddhism might appear to be identical as well as contradictory in their approaches in order to understand the changing behaviour of individual (Mitchell, Roberts, Bartsch & Sullivan, 2019). However it is also noted that the acceptance and commitment theory and the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy have various common sense which underlines Zen Buddhism techniques. There is a strong relationship between Zen Buddhism and acceptance and commitment theory. Researches depicts that Zen Buddhism integrates acceptance and commitment therapy in order to strengthen its practices in personality development.

There are various benefits of applying this practice such as its helps to maintain the observation of breath, increases awareness and building intensive group meditation. This helps our body to be relaxed calm and composed. There are various courses offered by meditation expert order to help people which are suffering from mental issues for behavioural issues. This meditation helps to understand the reality of life and trying to interpret them (James, 2017). There are various researches conducted in order to analyse the effect of this personality concept and it is really effective in order to treat people who are suffering from any mental disorder. Apart from this there are various negative factors about this personality trait. This personality trait is a patriarchal religious which means it barely have any application of change as per the status quo. It also ignores and accepts the repressive military resigns that’s running a country. The entire process believes and based on physical miracles oracles Prophecy extra which are entirely superstitions. The monks of Buddhist claims that this practice offers battery birth for delay people but also gave a little Dharma practice to and rebirth. This practice has lack of application of dharma to political, social and global issues which are really important issues at present.

This personality trait belongs to very old time and no effective changes have been seen in this practice as per the requirements in 21st century. It is noted that lack of persuasive and effective communication is the biggest barrier for effective actions in this practice. There are various different problems and issues faced by humans in 21st century and no such changes in the this Buddhism mindfulness has been observed which give satisfying results. One cannot put on questions on devotion to traditions lamas and Zen Masters (Shenefelt et al., 2019). This practice offers large worship of Buddha in place of application of the Dharma.

However, it is also noted that mindfulness refers to just Buddhism. Mindfulness is originated from Buddhist meditation techniques which encourage quiet observations of thoughts and techniques that an individual feels (Shenefelt et al., 2019). The main aim of this process is to eradicate all the sufferings that impacts on the thought process and health of an individual. Increase the awareness of an individual who practice mindfulness and free from various problems and anxiety pressure etc. Mindfulness is considered as the psychological process which purposely brings an individual intention to experience the occurrence at the present situation without any judgement. This is entirely derived from the Buddhist tradition.

In the present era where everything keeps up changing one has to be very calm composed and focus towards their goals. The pressure and the load of work impact on the productivity and life of an individual. Therefore it is very important for an individual to live a calm composed life without taking any stress and judging. Due to this problems people may have various health problems and mental problems such as depression, anxiety etc. In order to deal with this meditation is one of the best approaches to keep the mind calmness and make it composed to deal with present situation (Bradley, 2017). This approach is very effective and many researches have been conducted to analyse the impact of this approach. This approach tends to positively impact on the living lifestyle of an individual. There are various negative points of this approach. However eradicating this points there are many benefits of this approach as per the research conducted by many authors worldwide. There are various improvements and enhancement should be done in this practice but as it is a traditional method therefore no changes can be done in this process.

Conclusion

This study concluded that Bodhidharma is one of the monks who is responsible for carrying Zen Buddhism from India into China. Bodhidharma was also present throughout the building of the Shaolin Temple, and he was considered as the first three monks of the there. During the time in Shaolin Temple he spent many years in meditation, staring at the partition of the cave. There are various benefits of applying this practice such as its helps to maintain the observation of breath, increases awareness and building intensive group meditation. This helps our body to be relaxed calm and composed. There are various courses offered by meditation expert order to help people which are suffering from mental issues for behavioural issues. It is noted that lack of persuasive and effective communication is the biggest barrier for effective actions in this practice. There are various different problems and issues faced by humans in 21st century and no such changes in this practice.

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