Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy
misunderstand and likewise be attracted to the Buddhist notion of ‘no-self,’ and mistakenly seek doctrinal validation for their ...
practitioner brings awareness to his or her own mental processes, disidentification with them takes place (Deikman 1982; Kapleau ...
seen for what they are: impermanent components of reactions to experience. When seen for what they are, choice and transformatio ...
‘evenly hovering attention’ that Freud spoke of (Freud 1912/1964:111–12). By experiencing his or her own deeper, True Nature and ...
Pitfalls of Zen meditation practice Contraindications for Zen meditation practice Not everybody benefits from concentrative and/ ...
Buddhist teachers have become more educated and sophisticated in the realm of psychotherapy and more willing to work with profes ...
carries a projection of the fully developed True Nature or enlightened mind that the student potentially harbors but as yet cann ...
A certain degree of idealization of the teacher on the part of the student is healthy and useful in awakening the longing to see ...
meditators who are experiencing unusual mental states might consider working with senior meditation teachers (Finn and Rubin 199 ...
drives in order to fit into a spiritual ideal (Epstein 1995; Epstein and Lieff 1981). As Epstein aptly puts it, any realization ...
principles and, conversely, Western therapists becoming cognizant of Buddhist-inspired meditation techniques. In the last ten or ...
limitations of an excessively egocentric concept of self and offer a psychology of non-egocentric modes of being and adaptive, t ...
exercises, and observing the contents of the mind in mindfulness meditation (Mikulas 1981; Muzika 1990; Urbanowski and Miller 19 ...
Convinced that a Buddhist-informed psychotherapy is implicit in the way the therapist works rather than in the application of te ...
(Shapiro 1994). Meditation instruction provided by a qualified teacher of meditation may well yield more favorable or at least m ...
Fields, R. (1998) ‘Divided Dharma: white Buddhists, ethnic Buddhists, and racism’, in C.S. Prebish and K.K.Tanaka (eds), The Fac ...
Miller, M. (2001) ‘Zen and psychotherapy: from neutrality, through relationship, to the emptying place’, in P.Young-Eisendrath a ...
Tworkov, H. (2000) ‘The sure heart’s release: an interview with Jack Kornfield’, Tricycle: The Buddhist Review 9:37–44. Urbanows ...
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11 LOCATING BUDDHISM, LOCATING PSYCHOLOGY Richard K.Payne Introduction Just as it is important to understand the cultural assump ...
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