Buddhism,Suffering,Psychology Be Your Own Therapist

Be Your Own Therapist

posted by persephone

8 months ago • 275 views

tags: Buddhism, Suffering, Psychology

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Australian born Buddhist nun, Robina Courtin, has been involved with the Liberation Prison Project for some years. In this video, she speaks at a conference about the Buddhist approach to investigating the mind and improving the quality of one's state of mind, by focusing on and enhancing the positive qualities that exist at our core.

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Self-therapy != psychology. Her misunderstanding of what schizophrenia is leads me to believe that she has not studied psychology outside of pop-psych magazines.

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Not only does Buddhism offer a sound and practical approach to understanding the human mind and its functions, but compared to Western theories such as those of Freud, you could say that it has also stood the test of time, offering as it has for thousands of years methods for alleviating mental distress, whereas one could not say that Freudian concepts are as useful today, as they appeared to be when first established.

I'll take 20 minutes of meditation a day over any old Freudian psychoanalysis, thank you. Psychology is the business of any dedicated Buddhist.

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