On Steven D. Goodman’s The Buddhist Psychology of Awakening: An In‐Depth Guide to Abhidharma

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonam Kachru
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Psychology

Buddhist Psychology

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Nicolas Bommarito
Keyword(s):  
Buddhist Psychology ◽  
External Reality ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind

This chapter studies the importance of examining the nature of mental habits—the normal ways of perceiving, thinking, and feeling. The source of the problem is a mismatch between the usual way of relating to the world and how it really is, so it is important to closely examine mental habits and understand how exactly they obscure reality. Some Buddhists take this even further: It is not that one's mental projections do not match reality, they will say, but it is that there is no reality aside from an individual’s projections. For them, the problem is not a mismatch. The projections themselves are defective, obscuring not an external reality but the nature of the mind itself. The mental habits that distort reality are often called hindrances or poisons. These are things that the mind does that prevent an individual from seeing reality clearly.

Comparing Attachment Theory and Buddhist Psychology

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 282-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Baljinder K. Sahdra ◽  
Phillip R. Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Buddhist Psychology
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