Nothing Is Hidden
The Psychology of Zen Koans
Published on 16. September 2013
232 pages
978-1-61429-102-2 (ISBN)
Description
In this inspiring and incisive offering, Barry Magid uses the language of modern psychology and psychotherapy to illuminate one of Buddhism's most powerful and often mysterious technologies: the Zen koan. What's more, Magid also uses the koans to expand upon the insights of psychology (especially self psychology and relational psychotherapy) and open for the reader new perspectives on the functioning of the human mind and heart. Nothing Is Hidden explores many rich themes, including facing impermanence and the inevitability of change, working skillfully with desire and attachment, and discovering when "surrender and submission" can be liberating and when they shade into emotional bypassing. With a sophisticated view of the rituals and teachings of traditional Buddhism, Magid helps us see how we sometimes subvert meditation into just another "curative fantasy" or make compassion into a form of masochism.
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Barry Magid is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City, and the founding teacher of the Ordinary Mind Zendo, also in New York. He is the author of the Wisdom titles Ordinary Mind and Ending the Pursuit of Happiness.
Content
- Front Cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: WHOLENESS & IMMEDIACY - "That's Me.
- Chapter Two: WHO, ME? - Mu
- Chapter Three: THE UNCONSCIOUS - "Who Put You in Bondage?
- Chapter Four: MOTIVATION TO PRACTICE - Hakuin and the Sound of One Hand
- Chapter Five: TRADITION & THE THIRD - Huang-po and Gobblers of Dregs
- Chapter Six: IDEALIZATION - Hui-neng and the Original Face
- Chapter Seven: APPEARANCE & REALITY - The Physical Body
- Chapter Eight: CHANGE & UNITY - Kuei-shan's Buffalo
- Chapter Nine: TRAUMATIC DISSOCIATION - Ch'ien and Her Soul Are Separated
- Chapter Ten: FACING IMPERMANENCE - Sun-Faced Buddha, Moon-Faced Buddha
- Chapter Eleven: DESIRE & ATTACHMENT - The Old Woman, the Hermit, and the Young Girl
- Chapter Twelve: MUTUAL RECOGNITION - Yün-men's Medicine and Disease
- Chapter Thirteen: DIFFERENCE - Liu and Kuei-shan
- Chapter Fourteen: THE LAST WORD - Hsueh-feng the Rice Cook
- Chapter Fifteen: DOING THINGS WITH WORDS - Feng-hsueh's Speech and Silence
- Chapter Sixteen: INTERGENERATIONAL KARMA - Pai-chang and the Fox
- Chapter Seventeen: USELESSNESS - The Koan of Just Sitting
- Chapter Eighteen: WHOLENESS VS. WHOLESOMENESS - The Precepts
- Chapter Nineteen: SURRENDER & SUBMISSION - No Heat or Cold
- Chapter Twenty: SELF-SACRIFICE VS. COMPASSION - Torei Enji's "Bodhisattva's Vow
- Chapter Twenty-one: ALIVE OR DEAD - Tao-shuai's Three Barriers
- Chapter Twenty-two: ENDINGS - Build Me a Seamless Monument
- Conclusion: INSIGHT - Wash Your Bowls
- Notes
- References
- Index
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- About the Author
