And encouragement form a person who tells, that censuring, as a approach called often compassion, but is simply a lack of faith, not to talk about discernment, in regard of the three Gems, here:
Hello My Friends,
I've seen an earlier thread about Buddhism and mental illness on this forum, and I really wish I could have contributed to it, but it's now a locked thread.
At any rate, I was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia two years ago and have recovered from the illness very well, and this is a great testimony to Buddhist Practice- because the practice has helped me so much in my recovery.
In fact, mindfulness training was taught at the psychiatric hospital I was in.
I've sometimes been discouraged because some monks wouldn't allow me to study with them because I take medications for a mental illness: But I always remind those monks who discriminate against me:
Lord Gotama once taught Dhamma to a murderer named Angulimala who eventually became enlightened.
We're talking about a man who murdered almost 1,000 people- and some of today's monks are afraid to teach me!
I wish all monks were like the Lord Gotama, who taught Dhamma to the outcasts and the criminals.
Not all monks live up to Gotama's standards, unfortunately.
At any rate, if anyone else on the forums is suffering from a mental illness: You're not alone, and you can recover fully like I've had.
Don't be afraid to ask for help.
Blessings and Metta,
CC
And here a additional invitation to similar reason for mudita:
Ordination of a Samanera , since there are still places, where faith in the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha wins against the ways of modernity and believing in on outwardly medintation (giving medicine). Where is there the refuge? In what the Buddha not taught that it leads to an end of suffering and delusion?
Since two days, the former "total crazy and Paranoid Schizophrenia", now monk, has attracted a group of about ten kids, who would have come before every day to play and make nonsense every afternoon, including launch firework in the Monastery, to chant and worship the Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha in the evening with the Monks. Some of the "bad" children even have eager interest to ordinate by themselves.
Mudita