Sunday, August 16, 2009

Faith

"Faith as in?" one might ask.

Faith in more than one sense of the word.
The reason I came to think all these weird, random unorganized thoughts was I was not feeling for some time and somehow all the thoughts came to this.

- From the religious point of view, the furthest I would go to define myself, if I have to would be "aspiring Buddhist" as I can neither be ignorant nor am I well-learnt in the subject. That being said, I don't justify this "buddhism", "shamanism" that has become more like business networks these days. However, could not help being happy, grateful and spoilt to have my grandmother to pray for me (including the paid "chanting service") when she went to the Buddhist monastery regardless of her weak knee.

Although, I could not but doubt the monks (the paid ones) really concentrated with all their might and spirit/heart about the "chanting" to make it work like mantra, so that the accumulation of the energy would do the wonder as it is supposed to (ideally), my grandma's sincere wish must have worked.

- About a year ago, I read a Yahoo Health article about a long-term effect of vitamin intakes. The article concluded the result of rather long-term observation over two groups consisting of equal number of people, one constantly taking vitamins and other not, did not reveal much difference in their overall well-being. But, when it is my mum worrying about me, with her oftentimes-accurate-diagnosis, saying it is my immune system sort of weak owing to lack of sleep and extreme workload, has bought me different vitamins, all I could do was be grateful and take the vitamins and I was totally convinced that it will work better than the expensive drugs I would have been prescribed otherwise.

- With of all the idea/practice of "placebo effect" aside, any piece you can find even on most recent medical science would tell you about the extraordinary power the body itself has to prevent and to fight when necessary the illnesses. If you believe that all it takes is believing in that power, it is better to believe than not to.

As it shows we can always choose not to have FAITH about all these things as we have that FREEDOM, too

the freedom


(to)

keep the faith