聖嚴法師禪學思想於佛法治療之應用初探 ── 一個社區大學教案的實踐經驗=The Application Research about Therapeutic Buddhism for the Chan theory of Master Sheng Yen: Focuses on the Adult Education about I-Lan Community University
This essay focuses on the adult education field, especially on how the therapeutic theory to practice, including the expressing writing cure, philosophical counseling and the Chan theory of Master Sheng Yen, introducing: 1. Central Matters: from the spiritual curriculums in the community university which I designed, when I met the special needs of my students that inspired me and what I responses in the process of curriculum. I taught the spiritual curriculums in I-Lan community university for many years, and been aware of that the students always desire to know more about how to handle with the problems that occur in their life even everyday. In response to their needs, I started to design the third curriculum: “How to deep touch our mind and how to write our life”. This essay is to introduce the method of teaching, the content of the curriculum and the interpretation of the assignments from the students. 2. How to Respond in my course: through the theory and practice from “The writing cure” (or “The expressing writing therapy”), and “Philosophical counseling" , and applications of the Chan theory of Master Sheng Yen, I present the content and the teaching method of this curriculum. This essay explains the idea of this curriculum. First, the method of this curriculum includes two dimensions: student’s assignments and conversations between the teacher and the students. Secondly, as the core of the curriculum, I introduce the Chan theory of Master Sheng Yen which plays a great role in helping students solving their problems, while the purpose of this curriculum is aiming how to introduce the “intentional guidance” and “the thinking style beyond they used to”, which inspired from the concepts of the philosophical consults. After getting along with the students and observing them, I found that the students usually have two expectations concerning: 1. The religion Needs for help but not the classical religion, I think it’s mean “the resembling-religion” or “the non-religion”. 2. Needs for psychological consults in the class in order to apply them in their life, but not the formal consulting. And I think the Chan theory of Master Sheng Yen have characteristics both religious and philosophical, and qualities both theoretical and practical. Therefore, his teachings become the core of the course. 3. Feed-backs: The student’s assignments show the practical effects which present the therapeutic benefits and advantages of the Buddhism. Besides the above explanations, this essay also attempts to analyze the works of the students’ assignments and to discuss if the methods really contribute to achieve the goal of the therapeutic effect of the Buddhism. 4.Conclusion: to analyze the possibilities of the future development of the therapeutic Buddhism. The Bu
