Depression

1. Depression
We should keep in mind the law of kamma — the Buddha's teaching that everything
happens according to one's actions — and bear our misfortunes calmly. The best remedy in
a crisis is the practice of samatha or Vipassana. If sorrow, grief, or depression afflicts us,
during meditation hours such unwholesome states of consciousness must be noted and
removed. The Buddha describes the Satipatthana method as the only way to get over grief
and end all suffering. So long as we keep ourselves mindful according to Satipatthana
teaching, we never feel depressed, and if depression arises, it passes away when we focus
our attention on it.