The Courage to Feel

[andyrobyn]

I am currently reading the book, THE COURAGE TO FEEL: Buddhist Practices for Opening to Others by Rob Preece for about the third time and this morning found this article at Mudra website http://www.mudra.co.uk/mudra_articles.html ( Buddhist psychology website - lots of interesting articles on comparative Buddhism and Western Psychology and in particular an area I am interested in, dialogue between Jungian thought and Tibetan Buddhism. )
Thought I would post it to see if anyone has any comments

http://www.mudra.co.uk/mudra_introduction3.html

[srivijaya]

Thanks for linking that up andy. I never knew that Jung had a connection to Buddhism. I found the article on the Mandala to be particularly interesting. I'll have to go through a few more of them and see what I find.

[Esho]

Good article...

Thanks Andy! ;D

[Lazy Eye]

I hadn't heard this particular story about Avalokitesvara before -- I mean, about his compassion faltering, and that faltering actually becoming the source of his reaching out. It's great.


The bodhisattva’s way of life does not lead to a spiritual escape from the reality of the world. Rather, the bodhisattva cultivates the capacity to live within the raw reality of suffering on the ground and transform life’s adverse circumstances into a path of awakening. A bodhisattva makes a clear decision to remain embodied and in relationship to life even while reaching states of awareness that go far beyond our normal reality.

[andyrobyn]

Thanks for linking that up andy. I never knew that Jung had a connection to Buddhism. I found the article on the Mandala to be particularly interesting. I'll have to go through a few more of them and see what I find.

I have been drawn towards Jungian psychology and many years ago now, had three years of psychotherapy based on Jung's therapy ideas.
He acknowledged that we have an ego and that the ego is not who we really are, and in his model he called our true nature Self and saw that we seem to need a verbal framework to be able to understand our experiences, including spiritual experience and to enable us to connect with our Self.
Jung developed a rich structure of symbols which can be used to recognise and understand elements of our psyche, and when I became interested in them and was having the therapy all those years ago, I found my unconscious was more than willing to present things to me in dreams using Jungian symbols as they were developed for me with the therapist.
It was research on Jungian psychology which first led me to read about Buddhist thought when I came across a book on Jungian psychology and Buddhism.

[Keith A]

I hadn't heard this particular story about Avalokitesvara before -- I mean, about his compassion faltering, and that faltering actually becoming the source of his reaching out. It's great.

I agree...I quite like that quote. :hands:

[andyrobyn]

Yes, it does deliver a powerful message about the nature of compassion.

[srivijaya]

I have been drawn towards Jungian psychology and many years ago now, had three years of psychotherapy based on Jung's therapy ideas.
He acknowledged that we have an ego and that the ego is not who we really are, and in his model he called our true nature Self and saw that we seem to need a verbal framework to be able to understand our experiences, including spiritual experience and to enable us to connect with our Self.
Jung developed a rich structure of symbols which can be used to recognise and understand elements of our psyche, and when I became interested in them and was having the therapy all those years ago, I found my unconscious was more than willing to present things to me in dreams using Jungian symbols as they were developed for me with the therapist.
It was research on Jungian psychology which first led me to read about Buddhist thought when I came across a book on Jungian psychology and Buddhism.
Thanks Andy. Our consciousness operates on many levels that's for sure.

[andyrobyn]

If you are interested in this area Kris and have some spare time this article may be worth a read, http://pandc.ca/?cat=buddhist&page=buddhist_psychology

[srivijaya]

Thanks andy.