🔹Ven Pomnyun’s Dharma Q&A

Selection from Casual Conversation with Ven. Pomnyun Sunim(Apr 17, 2022)

🔹Question: Hello, Sunim. I'm currently living in South Korea. Thank you for this opportunity to ask a question. I had this question from my own virtual reality. In the last week's Dharma talk, Sunim talked about negative mental conditions for people in modern society, what we can do, and why it's so prevalent in current times. I've noticed some people with mental afflictions tend to have very creative minds.Writers, artists, painters throughout history and even in modern times, many creative people suffer from mental conditions. For example, the author of the novel "Pachinko", she said she's having anxiety and depression for the last 20 years. So how do we interpret this connection between mental disease and creativity and compassion? Had Buddha ever explored this topic during his lifetime?

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