Excerpts from The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology

Readings on the nature of meditation, mind, and psychology. With forewords by Daniel Goleman and Kidder Smith.

Foreword by Daniel Goleman
Foreword by Kidder Smith
Editor’s Introduction

PRELUDE: The Meeting of Buddhist and Western Psychology

PART ONE: MEDITATION
1. Taming the Horse, Riding the Mind
2. Discovering Basic Goodness
3. The Four Foundations of Mindfulness
4. An Approach to Meditation: A Talk to Psychologists
5. Natural Dharma

PART TWO: MIND
6. Mind: The Open Secret
7. The Spiritual Battlefield
8. The Birth of Ego
9. The Development of Ego
10. The Basic Ground and the Eight Consciousnesses
11. Intellect
12. The Six Realms
13. The Five Buddha Families

PART THREE: PSYCHOLOGY
14. Becoming a Full Human Being
15. Creating an Environment of Sanity
16. Attitude toward Death in the Healer-Patient Relationship
17. Intrinsic Health: A Conversation with Health Professionals
18. Maitri Space Awareness in a Buddhist Therapeutic Community
19. From a Workshop on Psychotherapy
20. Is Meditation Therapy?

Glossary
Sources
Acknowledgments
Further Readings by Chögyam Trungpa
Resources
A Biography of Chögyam Trungpa
Index

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