I had the wonderful opportunity to listen to Reverend Jing Kung talking about The Lotus Sutra via VCDs. This volume was 100 CDs long and contains many little bits of wisdom which The Great Sakyamuni Buddha delivered onto earth for all those willing to listen. Unfortunately, I am not finished with all of it but will share what I have learned as go through them slowly.
In one of the sessions, Rev Jing Kung mentioned about how the internal organs of highly practiced monks would look as transparent as glass to those who have the 2nd sight or the 3rd sight. Not only will their internal organ looks as clear as crystal, but will also glow with an inner light. He said that this was the result of years of practice in cleansing one's self of all things sinful to the human soul (not his exact words as I had to translate it from Mandarin). He also mentioned that for those gifted with the sight, he/she would be able to see the internal organs of us normal, or unpracticed people as being tainted black, the darker the more taint. (Things sinful to our souls include the 7 sins mentioned in the bible, those mentioned in the precepts of Buddhism, as well as selfishness, or acts that mainly serve the self but ignore others.)
This probably explains why most monks have this certain glow and calmness about them. I have always assumed that the glow was a representation or their practice, a gift of being pure, and bringing light to humanity. Probably the same reason why we always picture saints, and holy beings bathed in this pure white light (God, Angels, Buddha, Boddhisattvas, Arhats, Brahma, etc).
This little piece of information got me wondering about some other stuff. For example, like for those people who can see ailments on parts of the human body, they see it as a mass of blackness congregating in that area. I am wondering if this means that the blackness is a manifestation of the negativity within us. When all this negative energy congregate at a certain spot on our bodies, we ail ?
According to a reliable source of information (sorry I am unable to reveal this source at the moment), cancer is caused by our repression of negative emotions, feelings, etc. For example, a father that repressed his hate for his daughter and like wise the daughter repressed her hate for her father, both resulted in having cancer after many years (its a true story). In light of the above information, does this also mean cancer can also manifest itself from all the negativity that is already within all of us ? Additionally, although not empirically proven, Freud had the right idea that repressed emotions can lead to psychological disturbances.
Til this day, even though no one could neither prove nor disprove his theory, many psychological treatments exists today that utilized his theory to help client achieve catharsis. Most counselors can employ techniques that usually traces a client's present problem back to a time before the present. Once that happens the client is assisted to properly deal with the issue then in order to achieve catharsis. If you have ever felt the tremendous relieve that comes over you after having a nice long heart-to-heart talk with a friend about things that have been bothering you; that is catharsis. You would feel as if a very heavy weight has been lifted off you, and your soul feeling so light that it could fly.
I am off the opinion that repressed negative emotions can lead to manifestations of both psychological, and physiological disorders. There is a class of psychological disorder known as Somatization Disorder. In layman's language it is psychological disturbances that has physical manifestation/s. In that same line of thinking, I reckon that any negativity that we retain within ourselves will ultimately find a way of expressing itself outwardly. It can be as mild as facial breakouts (pimples), excess wrinkles, more gray hairs; as serious as having a psychotic breakdown, or even cancer.
