禪修對生活品質影響之研究—以中華禪法鼓宗禪法為例=A Study on the Influence of Meditation on the Quality of Life — Taking the Method of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan Buddhism as an Example
禪修=Chan practice; 生活品質=quality of life; 中華禪法鼓宗=Dharma Drum Lineage of Chinese Chan Buddhism; 心靈環保=Spiritual Environmental Protection; 社區再造=uplift our community
We are all trying our best to improve the quality of life. How to improve the quality of life? It has become a very important topic of people in this modern age. The studies made by more and more physicians and scientists have proven that Chan practice is significantly effect to one’s health in terms of physiology, psychology, and spiritual state. The main purpose of this thesis is to study on “The influences of the qulity of life by Chan practice ”, and a step further, to discuss the possibility to make Chan practice a new contributing factor to “uplift our community”. The definition of “The Qulity of Life” given by WHO in 2004 is adopted in this thesis, which includes four categories : physical health, psychological state, social relationship and social environmental. “National Living Index” issued by Chief Accounting Office of the Executive Yuan R.O.C. in 2006 and “Your Better Life Index” issued by OECD in 2011 are adopted as the evaluation criterion. Chan Master Sheng Yen uses a new terminology to describe the concept and practice “the Method of the Dharma Drum Lineage of Chan Buddhism” , which is “Spiritual Environmental Protection”. Study Conclusion: 1.From reference sources, we can find out that: Chan practice can help to improve the practitioner’s physical health, maintain a positive psychological state and a healthy psychological state. It can bring positive effect to the one’s overall health and improve his/her life quality. 2.Proofs have been found in our study that Chan practice can be helpful to: 1)Keep one’s physical heath and improve the vitality; 2)Keep positive mental state, release stress and improve awareness; 3)Improve relationship and enhance the social connections; 4)Purify the natural, social, material and spiritual environment. Through above study we reach the conclusion: Chan practice will fundamentally impact people’s life quality. We believe that the essence of “Spiritual Environmental Protection” can be included as an indicator to assess people’s the quality of life. Chan practice can be a new contributing factor to uplift our community.
