Hubert Benoit

Zen and the Psychology of Transformation: The Supreme Doctrine

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Supreme Doctrine applies the essence of Oriental Wisdom to the pursuit of self-knowledge and transcendence. The first step in a holistic psychology is to begin examining the true "state of man," rather than his aberrations. In so doing, we can activate our true potential to transform and give new direction and purpose to our lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: März 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780892812721
• ISBN-10: 0892812729
• Artikelnr.: 22286244

Autorenporträt

"Dr. Benoit has discussed the 'supreme doctrine' of Zen Buddhism in the light of Western psychological theory and Western psychiatric practice. This is a book that should be read by everybody who aspires to know who he is and what he can do to acquire self-knowledge."

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Aldous Huxley
Author's Preface
1. On the General Sense of Zen Thought
2. 'Good' and 'Evil'
3. The Idolatry of 'Salvation'
4. The Existentialism of Zen
5. The Mechanism of Anxiety
6. The Five Modes of Thought of the Natural Man--Psychological Conditions
of Satori
7. Liberty as 'Total Determinism'
8. The Egotistical States
9. The Zen Unconscious
10. Metaphysical Distress
11. Seeing into One's Own Nature--The Spectator of the Spectacle
12. How to Conceive the Inner Task According to Zen
13. Obedience to the Nature of Things
14. Emotion and the Emotive State
15. Sensation and Sentiment
16. On Affectivity
17. The Horseman and the Horse
18. The Primordial Error or 'Original Sin'
19. The Immediate Presence of Satori
20. Passivity of the Mind and Disintegration of our Energy
21. On the Idea of 'Discipline'
22. The Compensations
23. The Inner Alchemy
24. On Humility
Epilogue
Index