What Is Self-Healing Capacity?

The characteristic of the manas is that at all times it acts in ways unknown to the mind consciousness, refusing to remain idle. What it does is chiefly for the sake of "self," safeguarding all of its own interests. It always finds ways to satisfy its own needs and solve the most pressing problems. It possesses great energy and can realize its goals and achieve its aims, because behind it the tathāgatagarbha can satisfy it as much as possible.

Therefore, one must make the manas believe that one's body will surely become healthy. Once the manas believes this, it will find ways to make oneself healthy. Whether the body has a karmic illness or a physical illness, He will find ways to resolve it and resist stubbornly. If the manas is unwilling to remain afflicted by a karmic illness, it will put up a desperate fight; when karmic obstructions partially recede and merit strengthens, the beings of the realm of shadows will withdraw.
If it is a physical illness and the manas wants health, the tathāgatagarbha will exercise its nature of the great elements, transmitting and harmonizing the seeds of the four great elements so that the material body gradually recovers—this is what the secular world calls the body's own self-healing power. The manas will also seek out various opportunities behind the scenes to change the body's condition. Thus the material body will have many chances to regain health.
The key is to make the manas confident that it can become healthy, that it has no illness, and that everything will get better. Then the manas will strive in that direction and ultimately solve the problem. Suggesting to the manas and encouraging the manas is blessing oneself. In the end, it is all the blessing of the self-nature Buddha: one delivers oneself, one saves oneself.

A contrary example is when a patient knows his illness is serious and displays fear and restlessness—this is precisely the result of the manas believing the doctor's words. Because the manas is afraid, the body and mind change according to the manas's thoughts; when the manas relaxes, the material body also changes accordingly. That is, the mind consciousness takes the information from the doctor, processes it, and transmits it to the manas. Once the manas believes it, it forms intentions, and the eighth consciousness complies with the manas, manifesting either the healthy or the wretched condition of the material body.

If it is a curse directed at someone, then the person cursing—his manas emits a kind of energy. The manas should have intentions and wishes, and his own tathāgatagarbha cooperates with the manas, causing the cursed person to fulfill the curse's wish.

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