S. Korean kidnap case was hoax by depressed wife
source: http://news.malaysia.msn.com/regional/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4804568
By Agence France-Presse, Updated: 4/28/2011
A reported mother-and-son kidnapping case which sparked a major police hunt was a hoax staged by a depressed housewife trying to win her husband’s attention, South Korean police said Thursday.
Hundreds of police were mobilised nationwide Tuesday after the 37-year-old woman surnamed Lee claimed she and her five-year-old son had been abducted.
She sent a mobile text message to her husband, asking him to transfer 150 million won ($138,770) to her account to pay a ransom.
Police traced the phone to a district in central Seoul. They raided a hotel room but found Lee and her son peacefully asleep.
“It was a hoax by the woman who wanted to attract her husband’s attention,” a detective at Ilsan police station in Seoul’s northern suburbs told AFP.
The woman could have been prosecuted for obstructing police duties, but officers did not press charges and let her go home as she had been suffering from depression and her husband asked for leniency.
I hope she feels better soon.
In today’s society, the number one disease that we all suffer from unknowingly is Depression. Depression pushes us to our utmost boundary, it is a silent killer to our mind.
Like in the case for this lady, because of her attachment to attention from others, especially her husband, she committed this act, which could have had a more heavy consequence.
So why are people usually depressed? From my personal observation, people are too attached, too self-indulgent, too greedy, jealous and selfish. And the result of having this = a harbour of anger and lonliness = depression. And the sad thing is that people don’t realise that they are depressed, nor do they realise that it is a direct result of the state of our mind and our attributes (and our karma of course). The human psychology is very scary.
We cannot always blame the environment or external conditions for what we are feeling, because I feel that everything comes from the mind. You should be able to overcome the instability within your minds, because if you realise that everything is self-inflicted, you can make yourself feel the other way. I’m not saying that you are not allowed to feel down at times, we are all human, but we shouldn’t harbour and dwell on it for it keeps building and results in unknowing continuous suffering.
I sincerely thank my guru, H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, for bringing the Dharma to me, for having taught me and made me realise ever so slightly how depression arises, and how practising the Dharma is the only thing that can permanently put our minds at ease. Nothing cannot be solved by applying the Dharma. Buddha’s 85,000 ways applies to all situations and conditions.
Thank you Rinpoche, and may you continue turning the wheel of dharma to teach and have silly students like myself, realise something greater in life, so that we have the antidote to all situations that life throws at us.
Love,
Carmen