Encountering Buddhism

Description

Creatively exploring the points of confluence and conflict between Western psychology and Buddhist teachings, various scholars, researchers, and therapists struggle to integrate their diverse psychological orientations—psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, transpersonal—with their diverse Theravada and Mahayana Buddhist practices. By investigating the degree to which Buddhist insights are compatible with Western science and culture, they then consider what each philosophical/psychological system has to offer the other. The contributors reveal how Buddhism has changed the way they practice psychotherapy, choose their research topics, and conduct their personal lives. In doing so, they illuminate the relevance of ancient Buddhist texts to contemporary cultural and psychological dilemmas.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Buddhist Psychology
Andrew Olendzki

2. Close Encounters of a New Kind: Toward an Integration of Psychoanalysis and Buddhism
Jeffrey B. Rubin

3. The Buddha Teaches an Attitude, Not an Affiliation
Belinda Siew Luan Khong

4. On Being a Non-Buddhist Buddhist: A Conversation with Myself
Seth Robert Segall

5. Finding the Buddha/Finding the Self: Seeing with the Third Eye
Jean L. Kristeller

6. Awakening from the Spell of Reality: Lessons from Nagarjuna
Kaisa Puhakka

7. Reflections on Mirroring
Robert Rosenbaum

8. Psychotherapy Practice as Buddhist Practice
Seth Robert Segall

9. Buddhism and Western Psychology: An Intellectual Memoir
Eugene Taylor

Glossary

Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Psychology

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791486795
• Langue: English

Extrait

Encountering Buddhism

SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology Richard D. Mann, editor

Encountering Buddhism

Western Psychology and Buddhist Teachings

Edited by Seth Robert Segall

State University of New York Press

Published by

State Universit y of New York Press, Albany

© 2003 State Universit y of New York

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher.

For information, address State Universit y of New York Press, 90 State Street, Suite 700, Albany, NY 12207

Production by Judith Block Marketing by Fran Keneston

Library of Congress Control Number Encountering Buddhism : Western psychology and Buddhist teachings / edited by Seth Robert Segall. p. cm. — (SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology) ISBN 0–7914–5735–4 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0–7914–5736–2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Buddhism and psychoanalysis. 2. Psychotherapy—Religious aspects— Buddhism. 3. Spirit ual life—Buddhism. 4. Buddhism—United States—Histor y— 20th cent ur y. I. Segall, Seth Robert. II. Series.

BQ4570.P755 E62 2003 294.3'375—dc21

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

2002029179

To our families . . .

To our teachers in Buddhism and in Psychology . . .

George At wood Ruth Denison The Ven. Dr. K. S. Sri Dhammananda Joseph Goldstein Lama Anagarika Govinda Jon Kabat-Zinn David Kantor Jack Kornfield Joel Kramer Toni Packer

Larr y Rosenberg Joshua Sasaki Roshi Alan Senauke Maylie Scott Jack Roy Strange Frederick J. Streng Christopher Titmus Ferris Urbanowski Sojun Mel Weitsman Janice Dean Willis

And to the awakening and liberation of all beings . . .

May all beings be safe. May all beings have mental happiness. May all beings have physical happiness. May all beings live with ease.

The Tao that can be spoken is not the Tao. —Lao Tzu,Tao Tê Ching

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. —Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Samuel Beckett once said: “Ever y word is like an unnecessar y stain on silence and nothingness.” On the other hand, he said it. —Art Spiegelman,Maus II

Chapter 3. The Buddha Teaches an Attit ude, Not an Affiliation Belinda Siew Luan Khong

Chapter 7. Ref lections on Mirroring Robert Rosenbaum

Chapter 6. Awakening from the Spell of Realit y: Lessons from Nagarjuna Kaisa Puhakka

vii

Introduction

Acknowledgments

1

7

6

5

109

Chapter 5. Finding the Buddha/Finding the Self: Seeing with the Third Eye Jean L. Kristeller

Chapter 2. Close Encounters of a New Kind: Toward an Integration of Psychoanalysis and Buddhism Jeffrey B. Rubin

ix

Contents

Chapter 1. Buddhist Psychology Andrew Olendzki

1

3

1

9

Chapter 4. On Being a Non-Buddhist Buddhist: A Conversation with Myself Seth Robert Segall

131

143

viii

CONTENTS

Chapter 8. Psychotherapy Practice as Buddhist Practice Seth Robert Segall

Chapter 9. Buddhism and Western Psychology: An Intellect ual Memoir Eugene Taylor

Glossar y

Contributors

Index

165

179

197

205

207

Acknowledgments

The editor would like to thank:

The Perseus Book Publishers, a member of Perseus Books, L.L.C., for permission to quote fromThe Leaf and the Cloudy Oliver, copyright © 2000 by Mar yby Mar Oliver.

Kosen Nishiyama Roshi for permission to quote from his translation of the Shobogenzo. (Dogen [1983].A Complete English Translation of Dogen Zenji’s Shobogenzo[The Eye and Treasury of the True Law] [K. Nishiyama, Trans.] [vol. 3]. Tokyo: Nakayama Shobo. [Overseas Distributor: Japan Publications Trading Company. San Francisco, CA, Elmsford, NY, and Tokyo].)

Windbell Publications for permission to quote from G. W. Nishijima Roshi and C. Cross’s translation of the Shobogenzo. (Dogen, E. [1994].Shobogenzo, The Eye and Treasury of the True Law[G. W. Nishijima & C. Cross, Trans.]. London: Windbell Publications.)

ix