Faith and Negative Experiences

Jacob Waiswa
Situation Health Analyst
Dishma-Inc.
P.O. Box 8885,
Kampala-Uganda
Tel. +256392614655/+256752542504
dishma.imhs@gmail.com
www.situationhealthanalysis.blogspot.com

Faith is the conviction that prayer or a given religious rite has a direct effect on the life of the person in question –and helping to transform him or her from previously bad experience to positive states (wellness).

Spirituality, indeed seals up components of the human being -including the thinking system, emotional system, and the body. Other writers, however, add the soul as integral part of the being sometimes used to refer to person’s ‘spirit’, or to refer to the ‘heart.’
On the other hand, it can be used to mean the Supreme Being, or to describe extraordinary strength of a person and extremes of behavior (spirited).

Part of defense mechanism is when people going through difficult experience begin to seek objects they can attach meaning and form explanations for their suffering. The earlier spiritual experiences will dictate whether to adopt new faith or to strengthen old one –depending on how best it has served them.

In Buddhism, spirituality is here and now with us. We assume spiritual levels during insight meditation.

It is, therefore, wise to connect to spirituality (beyond the intellect), whilst not replacing it with the being or logic (egocentricism) –for it to be effective in the people’s lives. Effectively transformational, yet rational outcomes of spiritual connections result from individuals’ ability to subject them to reasoning test, which if passed, the desired yet rightful behavior come forth. It can be experienced that, one’s past can be so strong that individuals easily drop newly held values –especially if they do not keep practicing the new ones.

BUDDHISM AND OTHER FAITHS

Jacob Waiswa
Situation Health Analyst
Dishma-Inc.
P.O. Box 8885,
Kampala-Uganda
Tel. +256392614655/+256752542504
dishma.imhs@gmail.com
www.situationhealthanalysis.blogspot.com

If all roads lead to Rome, it does not matter which one to take. Religions are just like that. People choose different faiths as best avenues for them to reach their positive sense of life before and after death.

Like for Baha'i Faith Buddhism originated in Asia with the birth of Buddha in 624 (B.C.) and both founders had been princes before experiencing life outside their kingly settings which became a basis of their teachings, and taught diversity.

While Christians believe Angels brought important information from God to man, Buddhists suggest wise men developed and passed it on to society and for future generations to benefit. Intellectuals and researchers can today fall under the Buddhists’ land of argument.

The multiplicity of images of the past –rising, being seen do so, face to face with them and, finally, seeing them vanish -is like the so many demons that individuals are helped to get rid of –in other religious sects or faiths.

While Christians use Reverend, Father, and Pastor, and Muslims use Sheik, Mufti –to refer to spiritual leaders; Buddhists use Venerable (Ven.) –for Buddhist Monks and Nuns.
Buddhists like Muslims and Traditional healers attach a lot of respect to their worship centers. They remove shoes and sit in straight rows and columns.

Buddhist like Traditional healers dress in flowing robes: Embugo (bark cloth –made of tree-stem layer of a special tree) for Traditional healers and brown or orange color for Buddhist monks and nuns.

In all, actual transformation of the ill person begins with the processes of acknowledgement of healing act and keeping the faith. Keeping faith determines sustainability of the healing effect along the scale of degree of relationship with spirituality.

The challenge, now, remains: religious sectarianism, disrespect of alternative views and economic exploitation of the unsuspecting masses in the name of religion or faith –all of which take us back to level one: of misery, suffering, violence and hopelessness. Yet it would have been most central to place humanity first in our services to liberate them and be rewarded later.