Awakening and Insight: Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy

✍ Scribed by Polly Young-Eisendrath, Shoji Muramoto

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Buddhism first came to the West many centuries ago through the Greeks, who also influenced some of the culture and practices of Indian Buddhism. As Buddhism has spread beyond India, it has always been affected by the indigenous traditions of its new homes. When Buddhism appeared in America and Europe in the 1950s and 1960s, it encountered contemporary psychology and psychotherapy, rather than religious traditions. Since the 1990s, many efforts have been made by Westerners to analyze and integrate the similarities and differences between Buddhism and it therapeutic ancestors, particularly Jungian psychology. Taking Japanese Zen-Buddhism as its starting point, this volume is a collection of critiques, commentaries, and histories about a particular meeting of Buddhism and psychology. It is based on the Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy conference that took place in Kyoto, Japan, in 1999, expanded by additional papers, and includes: * new perspectives on Buddhism and psychology, East and West * cautions and insights about potential confusions * traditional ideas in a new light. It also features a new translation of the conversation between Schin'ichi Hisamatsu and Carl Jung which took place in 1958. Awakening and Insight expresses a meeting of minds, Japanese and Western, in a way that opens new questions about and sheds new light on our subjective lives. It will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners of psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and analytical psychology, as well as anyone involved in Zen Buddhism.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 9
Notes on the contributors......Page 11
Introduction Continuing a conversation from East to West: Buddhism and psychotherapy......Page 14
New perspectives on Buddhism and psychology East and West......Page 26
Buddhism, religion and psychotherapy in the world today......Page 28
A Buddhist model of the human self: working through the Jung-Hisamatsu discussion......Page 43
Jung, Christianity, and Buddhism......Page 58
The transformation of human suffering: a perspective from psychotherapy and Buddhism......Page 80
Zen and psychotherapy: from neutrality, through relationship, to the emptying place......Page 94
A mindful self and beyond: sharing in the ongoing dialogue of Buddhism and psychoanalysis......Page 106
Cautions and insights about potential confusions......Page 120
The Jung-Hisamatsu conversation TRANSLATED FROM ANIELA JAFF'S ORIGINAL GERMAN PROTOCOL BY SHOJI MURAMOTO IN COLLABORATION WITH POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH AND JAN MIDDELDORF......Page 122
Jung and Buddhism......Page 135
What is I? Reflections from Buddhism and psychotherapy......Page 148
American Zen and psychotherapy: an ongoing dialogue......Page 162
Locating Buddhism, locating psychology......Page 185
Buddhism and psychotherapy in the West: Nishitani and dialectical behavior therapy......Page 200
Traditional ideas in a new light......Page 218
Karma and individuation: the boy with no face......Page 220
The Consciousness-only school: an introduction and a brief comparison with Jung's psychology......Page 237
The problematic of mind in Gotama Buddha......Page 248
The development of Buddhist psychology in modern Japan......Page 255
Coming home: the difference it makes......Page 266
Index......Page 276