Ppsychologist Eleanor Rosch gave a talk in San Francisco last August called “What Buddhist Meditation has to Tell Psychology About the Mind.”
At one point she was discussing the Buddhist doctrine of the endlessly ramifying interdependence of everything, and observed that “an understanding of [this] interdependence has clinical significance.
It can provide people who suffer from guilt, depression, or anxiety with a vision of themselves as part of an interdependent network in which they need neither blame themselves nor feel powerless. In fact it may be that it is only when people are able to see the way in which they are not responsible for events or have power over the phenomenal world that they can find the deeper level at which it is possible to take responsibility beyond concept.
Now I can do things without these extraordinary cultural chains, and so can you out there.
At one point she was discussing the Buddhist doctrine of the endlessly ramifying interdependence of everything, and observed that “an understanding of [this] interdependence has clinical significance.
It can provide people who suffer from guilt, depression, or anxiety with a vision of themselves as part of an interdependent network in which they need neither blame themselves nor feel powerless. In fact it may be that it is only when people are able to see the way in which they are not responsible for events or have power over the phenomenal world that they can find the deeper level at which it is possible to take responsibility beyond concept.
Now I can do things without these extraordinary cultural chains, and so can you out there.
No comments:
Post a Comment