Comparative Analysis of Christianity and Buddhism towards providing Health Care

In this essay, I have discussed the Christianity concept on healing and exhaustively explained how the healing affects the social health, mental health and physical. Through the discussing, I have also compared the Christianity concept on healing to Buddhism. This will help in understanding how religion has a role to play in the healthcare sector especially under the healing process. In the essay, Buddhism proposes that for lasting healing or state of fullness was to be reached at, it is imperative to heal not only the physical ailment in the body with technology or medicines and other palliative remedies but also the origin of the disability and that is the mind. On the other hand, Christianity suggests, for one to be mentally unstable, he was deemed possessed.

Social health is understood as to be relating to interaction with the other human beings who live in able social communities. People, therefore, have an innate character that makes them tend to be social and to interact with each other, expressing the values of empathy and sympathy. The well-being of individuals and families is directly intertwined with the social health levels of their communities and ultimately the world in which we live. Socializing is one aspect in the integration of man. Every man shows intrinsic interest in interacting with others, and any form of the otherwise treated with suspicion. All Buddhists are impressed to cultivate the virtues of loving-kindness, genuine joy, and gentleness. A person with a behavioral disorder was seen to be acting out his insane mind, bring to light that which was already present in his mind garbage and hence the road to healing was to ensure clarity of mind, (Lipsky, 2011).

Comparing Christianity and Buddhism Physical Health A sickness is a form of punishment from the deity. It's a prevalent belief in Christianity stemming from the scriptures of how God would render an entire town annihilated by proposing some plaque upon them, ("Christianity," 2012). Even the Buddhists posited that the human condition had the waves of sufferings at birth, illness during growing up, old age and deterioration of the body, and consequent death as part of life, (Erricker, 2015). In the Christian faith, mental health was a grace from God. It's believed that God would strike persons with mental instability to reprimand them, for instance, King Nebuchadnezzar. Moreover was the belief that mental instability was a state of possession by the spirits. For one to be mentally unstable, he was deemed possessed.

Insanity never had human interventions to remedy it; it was a realm of the deity to restore or not. Buddhism finally proposes that for lasting healing or state of fullness was to be reached at, it is imperative to heal not only the physical ailment in the body with technology or medicines and other palliative remedies but also the origin of the disability and that is the mind, (Burton, 2005). If we do not seek the wellbeing or the clarity of the mind, then ailments and bodily discomforts will always be affecting us. This thought of a continued state of well-being achievable through the mind then introduces the idea of "ultimate healing". By clearing the dirt accumulated in the body and stored in the soul, though some past wicked action that would taint the soul and tarnish the mind, we can be free of constant problems and uncontrollable ailments in a rather permanent way.

We can achieve this state of ultimate fulfillment by correcting the wrong in our lives now, (Lipsky, 2011). e. the enlightened seen as paramount in determining a person's overall health and hence individuals were advised to practice asceticism and meditation always to ensure this harmonious flow. In regards to the patients of the Christian faith, they heavily believe that prayers tend to play a major role when it comes to the healing process. The patients in that religion are certain that prayers are the key to all their health and fitness. According to the Buddhist religion, meditation is the key to every bit of their mental, spiritual and physical healings, (Burton, 2005).  Oxford Textbook of Spirituality in Healthcare, 25-30. doi:10. 1093/med/9780199571390. 0004 Erricker, C.