When we talk about body and mind, these two things seem to always come in a pair, never separated. Actually, they are physically connected through the sophisticated nerve system. When our body parts (eyes, ears, skin etc.) detect some things, electrical signals are generated which are then sent to the brain, via the nerve system. The brain processes these signals and depending on the types and the sources of these signals, relevant chemicals are released which make us feel hungry, sad, or happy and well.
So there are many transform functions built in our body or our brain. These functions are either genetically predefined or formed during our childhood and teenage years. They transform what we see, hear and eat into signals which can be classified in some way as either happiness and satisfaction or sadness and depression.
However, many people are twisting these transform functions by employing different methods, such as religion, meditation, drugs, etc. Take religion for example, when church goers experience something which the transform functions could convert into depression by default, they pray for God or gods’ help so that instead of feeling depression, they feel calm. But these functions are so resilient that every effort to meddle with them is only temporally. That’s why God’s believers have to pray every day, mediators have to exercise their closed-door thinking regularly and drug users have to take their pills or powders as every-day consumables.
You may wonder how people could alter these transform functions permanently so that they don’t need pray every day for their happiness. Sadly, there is only one way on the earth through the whole human history including our modern days - getting mad (though the sacrifice is to be locked up in a mental hospital), an unsuccessful example, is it?
秋风楼 2007-1-14 于LEEDS家中
