The miracles of Tibetan medicine in the minds of many Western doctors border on mysticism. Indeed, how can a diagnosis be made using fingers superimposed on the patient's pulse? Or determine the presence of an ulcer by the timbre of a person's voice or gait?
It took 12-15 years for a Tibetan who devoted himself to medicine to comprehend the centuries-old wisdom of his ancestors. It was required to memorize whole volumes of sacred books. But the most surprising thing from the point of view of the over-rationalized Western mentality is that the learning process, as an obligatory and important component, included … meditation. About half of all useful time was allotted to it.
Modern Chinese doctors, who decided to speed up their training, considered it absolutely unproductive to waste such a lot of precious hours. The professors of Chinese universities have completely abandoned meditation - this "ideological anachronism" of dark lamas. As a result, the students, who had memorized the necessary texts, were fluent in concepts and terms, well versed in herbs, could not do the main thing - to become Tibetan healers. The little casket never opened!
What is meditation? And why did the lamas from the transcendental monasteries of Tibet pay such attention to her? This strange state of the human spirit can be defined as focusing on a particular topic, internal awareness of it. In the most culminating moments of meditation, a person, concentrating his attention with extraordinary power, as if merges with the subject of meditation, identifies himself with it.
As Valentin Sidorov writes in his book "Seven Days in the Himalayas", from the point of view of modern psychology, during meditation, the plans of the subconscious begin to work actively, the mechanism of intuition comes into play, and questions are instantly and clearly resolved with lightning speed. We used to call it insight, creative ecstasy. By the way, in Orthodox Christianity there is also a practice very similar to meditation. This is the so-called hesychasm, making "mental prayer".
Some Indians, combining ancient knowledge and the achievements of modern science, believe that during meditation a person is connected to a kind of solar and cosmic generator. Luminous energy saturates the cells of our body. During meditation, it is not the object of human thought that acquires special importance, but the very quality of his thinking.
Since ancient times, there has been a meditative practice that concentrates attention not only on a certain point or object in space, but also strives into absolute silence, into complete abstraction. The great Indian philosopher Aurobindo Ghosh wrote that the ability to think is an amazing gift, but the ability not to think is an even greater gift.
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The depth of this thought is confirmed by the fact that practically all scientific discoveries were made not at all during moments of powerful ramming pressure of thoughts, but precisely at those moments when the brain of scientists (with all its previous activity approached the threshold of insight) suddenly stopped for a short time in royal intellectual calm … An ingenious thought seemed to float over him. A textbook example of this phenomenon is the case of Mendeleev, who discovered the periodic system in a dream.
However, meditation is not just a sweet nap. Modern neurophysiology distinguishes between three main modes of the brain: wakefulness, slow and the so-called fast, or paradoxical, sleep. In the successive alternation of these three phases of the work of gray matter, the life of any homo sapiens proceeds. Each of the modes corresponds to a specific type of encephalogram. Deciphering the graph of electromagnetic oscillations emitted by the brain of a person immersed in meditation gave an amazing result. It turned out that this rhythm combines the characteristics of all three modes of the intellect. A paradoxical situation arises: during relaxation, the level of wakefulness increases! In other words, there is reason to speak of the existence of a special, fourth, state of brain activity.
It can be assumed that geniuses and children periodically plunge into it intuitively. It is no accident that child psychiatrists claim that all babies, without exception, are genius, there is not a single mediocre child. Remember also the mysterious words of Jesus Christ: "Be like children, for theirs is the Kingdom of God." It is only later, burdened with the burden of worldly "wisdom" and various complexes, pink-cheeked toddlers with burning eyes turn into adult "gray mice".
In this regard, the unspoken axiom that exists in the natural science world is also interesting: intellectual breakthroughs from a physicist or mathematician can be expected practically only up to the age of 30-35. Later, specialists become good calculators, teachers, and so on. In a word, they are the draft horses of science (which, by the way, cannot be done without), but, alas, not the Columbians of the new scientific Americans. In order to make discoveries at a later age, one must possess the potentials of Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein. Or maybe the latter, throughout their entire life, without even suspecting it, simply did not forget how to introduce their brain into that special, fourth, state?
In this case, why not try to adopt the experience of Tibetan lamas and introduce one more subject - meditation - into the university curriculum? To begin with, as an experiment, not even on the scale of a university or faculty, but at least in several groups. Imagine, instead of a lecture or a seminar, students are amicably sent to the auditorium where the encephalographs are located, recording the correctness of meditation exercises. Who knows if this technique will put Einstein “production” on the assembly line?
The ancient sages of the East spoke about another aspect of this problem. Knowledge, according to their teaching, should not only be seized by the superficial mind, but "pumped" through the human soul. Only then does it penetrate the consciousness of the individual and enrich his essence. This is precisely what meditation contributes. In our time, this thought is especially relevant, According to scientists, in the modern world the amount of new knowledge doubles every seven years. Today, in order to consider themselves educated, people are forced to swallow more and more portions of information without respite. She simply does not have time to be "digested" by consciousness. In our gray matter, the accumulation of intellectual deposits takes place, which, under their thickness, bury the creative principle of a person (for the sake of the realization of which - think about it - we are ultimately engaged in self-education). It was this misfortune that happened to the Chinese students, who did not manage to bring the knowledge they had acquired to the level of everyday creative insight, which is the main meaning of the medical practice of a real Tibetan healer.
Based on all this, are the joyful exclamations of enthusiasts who are introducing new subjects into the school curriculum and increasing the volume of old ones justified? Wouldn't the hyper-amount of information, intended for compulsory assimilation, turn out to be a disservice to the younger generation, crippling future creators in it? Maybe the real solution to the problem is all in the same meditation?..