Transcript Bioethics-Chutatip

BIOETHICS:
Love of life through the
Knowledge of Chanting for
Health and Peace
by
Chutatip Umavijani
PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT,
LIBERAL ARTS,
THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY
BANGKOK, THAILAND
LOVE OF LIFE AND
KNOWLEDGE
• Darryl Macer’s Bioethics is Love of Life:
An Alternative Textbook
• Socrates: “Virtue is knowledge.”
• Knowing is doing.
Chanting for Health and Peace
-Sound vibrations affect man physical,
mental, emotion and spiritual
-Man’s love of life can use the
effectiveness of sound vibration to
heal.
-The attributes of each chant with its
sound and power, why each is
effective.
-What is the essence of words in
relation to man’s mind?
-Do our minds work like a computer
that collects all the data we receive?
-How can we maintain peace through
chanting?
India:
Swami Sivananda:
Om = repeating for 20 min. relaxes
every atom in the body.
China:
Chinese 5 musical notes form the 5
elements system comprising a
pentatonic scale that has been used as
a basis of musical composition and
improvisation
• Melody with emphasis on particular
elements = healing for various organ
systems of the body.
Doctors and Scientists
Dr. Richard Gerber and Dr. Andrew
Weil’s Vibration Medicine
Chanting and vocalizing sacred words
= magic healing
• Patients who suffered from strokes are
exposed to fifteen min. of key sound
frequencies, their bodies start to stabilize.
• Nicole La Voic produced sound frequency
tapes called Sound Wave Energy (SWE) to
harmoniously stimulate and balance
various biological elements associated
with the first chakra and related to
physiological functions.
Scientific aspect:
• Vibration treatments are related to
Einstein’s theory of substance and energy
whereby man generates complex energy
in dynamic equilibrium to develop the
soul.
Buddhist Chanting:
• Sound vibration
• Verses have different meanings and
purposes = praise the Buddha who
discovered the truth of life.
= teaching virtue and wisdom
= compassion and good will
= Parita Katha…Phoochangka
Parita (the seven wisdoms that enable one
to become enlightened.)
Pra Achan Singdhon Narasapo’s
Plang Rangsi Dhamma ( The Power of Dhamma)
Buddhist Chanting: Pali and Sanskrit
• Sound Vibration affect Physical and
Mental
• Pali sound -> special organs of body
• Sounds stimulate the 7 Chakra (centers of
energy in yoga)
‘eeoo’ = lung, ‘aueo’ = liver, ‘chee’ = bladder
Why effective?
• The truths of wisdom = impact on the
listener -> strength and compassion
• Fugimoto Noriyuki: conducted an
experiment to differentiate the energies
affect water. Observed molecules of water
from different places.
• Human brain compiles data = affect body,
mind and spirit. Right data.