Sanity We Are Born With : A Buddhist Approach to Psychology, Chogyam Trungpa

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Sanity We Are Born With : A Buddhist Approach to Psychology
By: Chogyam Trungpa

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Author: Chogyam Trungpa
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Buddhist psychology teaches that all of us are born with "basic sanity," described by Chogyam Trungpa as basic goodness, healthiness, and wakefulness. Helping ourselves and others to contact this ground of sanity and health is the subject of this book. In twenty articles drawn from The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, the author presents insights into meditation, mind, and psychology that he shared with Western psychologists, psychotherapists, and students of Buddhist meditation in America in the 1970s and '80s. Fundamentally, the book is about how all of us can strengthen our inherent sanity, but it also addresses the specific needs of those in profound psychological distress. Additionally, it speaks to the concerns of psychotherapists and other mental health professionals, as well as a general audience interested in the application of Buddhist psychology and meditation to interacting with others in a healing relationship.

Sanity We Are Born With : A Buddhist Approach to Psychology, Chogyam Trungpa, Shambhala Publications, Paperback, 2004, 224 Pages, $16.95

Trungpa was born in Eastern Tibet and recognized as an incarnation of the Trungpa line at an early date. He studied with, among others, one of the reincarnations of the Jamgyon Kongtrul who wrote the most famous commentary on the Seven Points. In 1959 he fled to India in the wake of the Communist takeover in Tibet, courageously leading many of his people to safety (this period is described in his book Born in Tibet.) He came to England in the mid-sixties to study at Oxford, learned English, started to teach, and started one of the first Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. He later dropped his monastic vows, married, and moved to America where he continued his teaching. He founded the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, a large and highly respected Buddhist university

Foreword by Daniel Goleman vii
Foreword by Kidder Smith ix
Editor's Introduction xvii

Prelude
The Meeting of Buddhist and Western Psychology 3

Part One
MEDITATION
1. Taming the Horse, Riding the Mind 15
2. Discovering Basic Goodness 19
3. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness 24
4. An Approach to Meditation: A Talk to Psychologists 43
5. Natural Dharma 58

Part Two
MIND
6. Mind: The Open Secret 63
7. The Spiritual Battlefield 69
8. The Birth of Ego 78
9. The Development of Ego 84
10. The Basic Ground and the Eight Consciousnesses 94
11. Intellect 99
12. The Six Realms 113
13. The Five Buddha Families 126

Part Three
PSYCHOLOGY
14. Becoming a Full Human Being 137
15. Creating an Environment of Sanity 143
16. Attitude toward Death in the Healer-Patient Relationship 153
17. Intrinsic Health: A Conversation with Health Professionals 160
18. Maitri Space Awareness in a Buddhist Therapeutic Community 165
19. From a Workshop on Psychotherapy 176
20. Is Meditation Therapy? 182

Glossary 189
Sources 195
Acknowledgements 199
Further Readings by Chögyam Tungpa 203
Resources 205
A Biography of Chögyam Trungpa 209
Index 215

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