The Enlightenment Of Zen's Thought To Psychotherapy

Mental health is an important topic people concern now .Based on the use of western psychotherapy methods, we are also in search of the historical cultural tradition in China. In the thesis, based on Zen's main ideas, use the method of comparison , compare Zen's Thought with 5 modern mental psychotherapy methods and find out new ideas about Zen's Thought. The article is consisted of three parts. Clarify the forming and connotation of Zen's Thought, which helps us to grasp it completely. Explore the relation between culture and psychotherapy and expect the development trend of psychotherapy. The following is the main part of the paper , which sets forth the relation between Zen's mental thought with psychotherapy to get some enlightenment to use the psychotherapy methods better . The enlightenment teach people to recognize the nature of self, know how to enlighten suddenly , perfect the personality, transcend self ,follow the nature and treat the life with common feeling. Through a series of analysis , summaries and analyzing in the light of history, we can know more about Zen and deal with mental problems in daily life with it.