Zen and the Psychotherapeutic Process
Sangharakshita ( 1967 )
Part of the series Aspects of Buddhist Psychology
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- 1 Why include Zen in the series? Interest in Zen and misunderstandings 09:46
- 2 Psychotherapy and Religion; adjustment therapy and character therapy 13:44
- 3 Comparing Buddhism and psychotherapy in general terms 04:11
- 4 Spiritual sickness: the Four Noble Truths and the Vimalakirti Nirdesha Sutra 05:26
- 5 ”All prthagjanas (‘worldlings’) are mad” 05:29
- 6 Three different senses in which ‘Zen’ is used 04:42
- 7 ”A special transmission outside the scriptures” 07:18
- 8 ”No dependence of words and letters” 03:30
- 9 ”Direct pointing to the mind of man” 02:43
- 10 ”Seeing into one’s own nature, realising Buddhahood” 02:04
Talk Details
The lecture investigates the goals of religion and psychotherapy, and then uses a verse of Zen poetry to identify areas of common approach.
Talk given in 1967.
