The following is a contribution to Serendip by Phouttasone (Pilou) Thirakoul, who wrote it during her senior year (1996-1997) as a Psychology major and Neural and Behavioral Sciences concentrator at Bryn Mawr College. Pilou's essay provides a useful introduction to both Buddhist thinking in relation to brain and behavior, and to a branch of western psychology which, with its stress on active ...

BuddhaSasana Home Page English Section The Abhidharma Peter Della Santina, Ph.D. Contents An Introduction to the Abhidharma Philosophy and Phychology in the Abhidharma Methodology Analysis of Conciousness The Form and Formless Spheres Supramundane Consciousness Analysis of the Mental States Analysis of the Thought Process Analysis of Matter Analysis of Conditionality The Thirty-Seven Factors of ...

QkWa M V kMa 'Y kMa W a W hO Bodhiology n (bodhi + (o) + logy) 1. A new department of human science that studies concepts and methods regarding the phenomenon of awakening; 2. The Science Of Awakening. 3. Abhidhamma psychology. 4. The system of consciousness models. 5. The psychology that the Buddha first taught to the extraterrestrials from ten thousand universes. 6. The science of ...

Towards a Buddhist Psychotherapy C. George Boeree, Ph.D. Shippensburg University What follows is my effort at showing the relevance of Buddhism to western psychotherapy, especially existential therapy. Although it may not sit well with purists, I hope that this article captures the spirit of the Buddha's message. The Four Noble Truths sound like the basics of any theory with therapeutic roots: 1.

Some ideas to purify our mind ...

In Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective classically trained psychiatrist Mark Epstein explores how Eastern spirituality can enhance Western psychology by helping patients go beyond merely recognizing their problems to healing them. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. Mark Epstein, M.D., is also the author of Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart, A Buddhist Perspective ...

Psychological State Changes in Meditation -- James Kempf (This article was extracted from the newsgroup talk.religion.buddhism) In couple previous note strings, some requests have come up for information on psychological studies of meditation and enlightenment. There have been many psychological studies on meditation over the years, mostly on TM and, recently, on vipassana. A study that I've ...

Back to Buddhist Buddhist Psychology First printed in Psybernetica, Winter, 1996 Eastern influence on Western thought goes back at least to the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans. Alexander the Great (4 th century B.C.E.) made it as far as northern India, and the Roman philosopher Plotinus made a trip to study the philosophies of the region in 242 C.E.. According to Hall and Lindzey (1978 p.

Mind-body-spirit dynamics for holistic health - personality test and meditation subjects based on Chinese elements and Buddhist psychological theory ...

Was the Buddha the First Humanist 1 KEY TERMS: humanism -- evolution -- Hina-Yana Buddhism -- natural causation For the modern humanist one of the most astounding discoveries could well be a turn-of-the-century book written by Ms. Rhys Davids: a British scholar of the period specializing in Indian philosophy.2 Unlike most other works on Buddhism, this one focuses on the Buddhist Norm as ...