Ordinary Mind
Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
Published on 20. August 2012
224 pages
978-0-86171-740-8 (ISBN)
Description
Is meditation an escape from--or a solution to--our psychological problems? Is the use of antidepressants counter to spiritual practice? Does a psychological approach to meditation reduce spirituality to "self-help"? What can Zen and psychoanalysis teach us about the problems of the mind and suffering?
Psychiatrist and Zen teacher Barry Magid is uniquely qualified to answer questions like these. Written in an engaging and witty style, Ordinary Mind helps us understand challenging ideas--like Zen Buddhism's concepts of oneness, emptiness, and enlightenment--and how they make sense, not only within psychoanalytic conceptions of mind, but in the realities of our lives and relationships.
This new paper edition of Magid's much-praised book contains additional case study vignettes.
Psychiatrist and Zen teacher Barry Magid is uniquely qualified to answer questions like these. Written in an engaging and witty style, Ordinary Mind helps us understand challenging ideas--like Zen Buddhism's concepts of oneness, emptiness, and enlightenment--and how they make sense, not only within psychoanalytic conceptions of mind, but in the realities of our lives and relationships.
This new paper edition of Magid's much-praised book contains additional case study vignettes.
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Content
- Front Cover
- CONTENTS
- Foreword by Charlotte Joko Beck
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Psychology of the Self
- Chapter 2. Top-Down Practice: Mu
- Chao-chou's Dog
- Chapter 3. Bottom-Up Practice: Just Sitting
- The Goose in the Bottle
- Chapter 4. Self and Oneness
- Sung-yüan's Person of Great Strength
- Chapter 5. Self and Emptiness
- Hsi-chung Builds Carts
- Chapter 6. No Self
- Dogen's Encouraging Words
- Chapter 7. The Myth of the Isolated Mind
- Jui-yen Calls "Master
- Chapter 8. Constancy
- Nan-ch'üan Kills the Cat
- Chapter 9. Change
- Sitting with Sam
- Chapter 10. Zen Is Useless
- Wash Your Bowl
- Chapter 11. Relationship and Authority
- Attachment and Detachment
- Chapter 12. One Practice or Two?
- Working with Mary
- What Shakes Your Tree?
- Chapter 13. Form and No Form
- Ordinary Mind Is the Tao
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
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- I
- J
- K
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- About the Author
