Wonderful, wonderful book. I approached it at a time in my life when I was studying Positive Psychology. I've always had great respect for the Buddhist "outlook" but I've shied away from it in the way that I try to avoid a lot of religious entanglements. Suffice it to say, however, that this book brought Buddhism into view for me in a way that I hadn't seen before, namely by concentrating on the aspects of self-work that have always had a ring of truth for me. I've since tried to get deeper into the practice, but I still require a somewhat light hand. What impresses me about the practice is the way it encourages personal, individual investigation into our connection with one another and nature. Buddhism is welcoming and trappings-free, and it's been refreshing to learn more about it.
If you have recommendations for further reading like this, I would welcome them heartily :-)
OK - here's the advert: my teacher, (Dharmavidya) David Brazier
wrote 'Zen Therapy', also 'The Feeling Buddha'. The latter is a book
that changed my life - really. It speaks so clearly to one's personal
experience. It has its own discussion blog (clever little thing) at http://amidatrust.typepad.com/thefeelingbuddha/
And Caroline Brazier wrote 'Buddhist Psychology' which has been very
well received. The sequel is with the publisher. I'll put something
about these on my site.
I to have taken great sustenance from Mark's books like thoughts without a thinker and open to desire, finding refreshing and luminous essay's on everything buddhist and psychological like the 4 noble truths and ideas from D.W. Winnocott the great child psychoanalyst. And he illuminates the difficult subject of Buddhist and psychological emptinesses and clarifying both. I can hardly contain myself for his new book, psychotherapy without a self due to arrive in october.
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Wonderful, wonderful book. I approached it at a time in my life when I was studying Positive Psychology. I've always had great respect for the Buddhist "outlook" but I've shied away from it in the way that I try to avoid a lot of religious entanglements. Suffice it to say, however, that this book brought Buddhism into view for me in a way that I hadn't seen before, namely by concentrating on the aspects of self-work that have always had a ring of truth for me. I've since tried to get deeper into the practice, but I still require a somewhat light hand. What impresses me about the practice is the way it encourages personal, individual investigation into our connection with one another and nature. Buddhism is welcoming and trappings-free, and it's been refreshing to learn more about it.
If you have recommendations for further reading like this, I would welcome them heartily :-)
OK - here's the advert: my teacher, (Dharmavidya) David Brazier wrote 'Zen Therapy', also 'The Feeling Buddha'. The latter is a book that changed my life - really. It speaks so clearly to one's personal experience. It has its own discussion blog (clever little thing) at http://amidatrust.typepad.com/thefeelingbuddha/ And Caroline Brazier wrote 'Buddhist Psychology' which has been very well received. The sequel is with the publisher. I'll put something about these on my site.