This paper is an attempt to discuss the implication of the Buddhist teachings of emptiness in our... more This paper is an attempt to discuss the implication of the Buddhist teachings of emptiness in our contemporary life by looking into a disciple of psychotherapy, namely the person-centered therapy, with a special focus on the use of language. It is the purpose of this paper to investigate how emptiness can be a guiding principle in psychotherapy and how with it as a foundation ground makes therapeutic skills with the use of language effective in helping achieve the goal of healing.
The goal of Buddhist teachings is liberation of suffering. It is a process of cumulative path le... more The goal of Buddhist teachings is liberation of suffering. It is a process of cumulative path leading to the attainment of wisdom, that is, to see things as they really are. In order to facilitate the understanding of experienced reality, an elaborate analysis of the mind is necessary. This paper is an attempt to review the analysis of mind as taught in Abhidhamma.
This paper aims at integrating and concluding my own experience of practicing mindfulness meditat... more This paper aims at integrating and concluding my own experience of practicing mindfulness meditation as a therapist and discussing how mindfulness practice can enhance the therapeutic elements in the process of therapy so as to increase the effectiveness of therapy within the framework of person-centered therapy.
This paper is an attempt to address the following issues. How is the theory of the two truths em... more This paper is an attempt to address the following issues. How is the theory of the two truths emerged in Theravada Buddhism? Why are there two kinds of truth in Buddhism? What is the relationship between them? Is one superior to the other? Why are they important in understanding Buddhist teachings?
Visual perception appears to be immediate, intuitive (lacking in deliberation) and rigid, to the ... more Visual perception appears to be immediate, intuitive (lacking in deliberation) and rigid, to the extent that most people believe their images are “true copies” (like scanned copies) of the external world or “reality”.
On the other hand, we learned from the suttas that our perceptions are just “delineations” of the mind and subject to all kinds of proliferations and fabrications (“Form is emptiness”). The Buddhist epistemology was also summarized in the “Thirty Stanzas”.
Two and a half millennia after the Buddha’s time, Helmholtz wrote a chapter on “the mental processes that are active in the sense-perceptions” from the perspective of a scientist and using modern language.
What are these “mental processes”? Did Helmholtz help we understand the Buddha’s teaching and our practice of mindfulness?
This paper is an attempt to discuss the implication of the Buddhist teachings of emptiness in our... more This paper is an attempt to discuss the implication of the Buddhist teachings of emptiness in our contemporary life by looking into a disciple of psychotherapy, namely the person-centered therapy, with a special focus on the use of language. It is the purpose of this paper to investigate how emptiness can be a guiding principle in psychotherapy and how with it as a foundation ground makes therapeutic skills with the use of language effective in helping achieve the goal of healing.
The goal of Buddhist teachings is liberation of suffering. It is a process of cumulative path le... more The goal of Buddhist teachings is liberation of suffering. It is a process of cumulative path leading to the attainment of wisdom, that is, to see things as they really are. In order to facilitate the understanding of experienced reality, an elaborate analysis of the mind is necessary. This paper is an attempt to review the analysis of mind as taught in Abhidhamma.
This paper aims at integrating and concluding my own experience of practicing mindfulness meditat... more This paper aims at integrating and concluding my own experience of practicing mindfulness meditation as a therapist and discussing how mindfulness practice can enhance the therapeutic elements in the process of therapy so as to increase the effectiveness of therapy within the framework of person-centered therapy.
This paper is an attempt to address the following issues. How is the theory of the two truths em... more This paper is an attempt to address the following issues. How is the theory of the two truths emerged in Theravada Buddhism? Why are there two kinds of truth in Buddhism? What is the relationship between them? Is one superior to the other? Why are they important in understanding Buddhist teachings?
Visual perception appears to be immediate, intuitive (lacking in deliberation) and rigid, to the ... more Visual perception appears to be immediate, intuitive (lacking in deliberation) and rigid, to the extent that most people believe their images are “true copies” (like scanned copies) of the external world or “reality”.
On the other hand, we learned from the suttas that our perceptions are just “delineations” of the mind and subject to all kinds of proliferations and fabrications (“Form is emptiness”). The Buddhist epistemology was also summarized in the “Thirty Stanzas”.
Two and a half millennia after the Buddha’s time, Helmholtz wrote a chapter on “the mental processes that are active in the sense-perceptions” from the perspective of a scientist and using modern language.
What are these “mental processes”? Did Helmholtz help we understand the Buddha’s teaching and our practice of mindfulness?
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On the other hand, we learned from the suttas that our perceptions are just “delineations” of the mind and subject to all kinds of proliferations and fabrications (“Form is emptiness”). The Buddhist epistemology was also summarized in the “Thirty Stanzas”.
Two and a half millennia after the Buddha’s time, Helmholtz wrote a chapter on “the mental processes that are active in the sense-perceptions” from the perspective of a scientist and using modern language.
What are these “mental processes”? Did Helmholtz help we understand the Buddha’s teaching and our practice of mindfulness?
On the other hand, we learned from the suttas that our perceptions are just “delineations” of the mind and subject to all kinds of proliferations and fabrications (“Form is emptiness”). The Buddhist epistemology was also summarized in the “Thirty Stanzas”.
Two and a half millennia after the Buddha’s time, Helmholtz wrote a chapter on “the mental processes that are active in the sense-perceptions” from the perspective of a scientist and using modern language.
What are these “mental processes”? Did Helmholtz help we understand the Buddha’s teaching and our practice of mindfulness?