Miracle healers?

I remember that when I was young, I was easily impressed by "miracles healers" who could perform great feats such as curing someone who has contracted a terminal illness, bringing the dead back to life, etc. I was really impressed by them and wanted to be like them so that I could save myself and others from the misery.

However, this soon got me into thinking: are all these "miracles" created really that helpful? If you were to bring someone back to life, does that mean that he/she need not die in the future? NO! In fact you have to die TWO TIMES! Dying once is already so much suffering, you can imagine how painful it is to die TWICE.

It becomes evident that all these miracle men are not solving the root of the problem. They may stave off temporary problems, but they cannot solve the real problem. They may cure you of cancer, but you still have to die one day. And when this day arrives, can they still save you?

Actually, what causes all these suffering is not the sickness of the body, but the sickness of the mind. Being sick is not scary, what it is scary is "fear of sickness". Dying is not scary, what it is scary is the"fear of death". "What causes all these problems are not sickness or death, but the "fear of sickness and death". If you were not afraid of sickness or death, then it wouldn't matter if you had cancer or not. You would still remain happy and be contented despite of your worsening physical conditions!

Hence, curing the sickness of the body, does not solve the problem. It only help to relieve our suffering temporarily. And after a while the problem would resurface again. Therefore, to truly solve the root of the problem is to cure the sickness of the mind and not the sickness of the body only. It is not about curing sickness , but most importantly, curing the "fear of sickness". It is not about escaping death, but more about facing death. Only through this way, can our suffering truly be cured.

I then came into a conclusion: The only kind of "miracle healers" who truly deserves our respect is not someone who could save you from death, but someone who could teach you how to face death. This kind of "miracle healers" , cannot cure you of cancer, neither can they save you from death. However, they can cure you of your "fear of sickness and death". This kind of miracle though mundane on the outside, but is actually a miracle much more impressive and much more helpful to mankind.


P.S: Although I am still unable to cure myself of "the fear of sickness and death", but I am working towards it. Maybe one day I will meet a TRUE miracle man who could teach me how to be one too.