The Curse of the Self

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Trauma and transformation – a psychologist on why difficult experiences can radically change us

https://theconversation.com/trauma-and-transformation-a-psychologist-on-why-difficult-experiences-can-radically-change-us-169591 November 16, 2021 by Steve Taylor ...There is nothing religious about transformation through turmoil. Essentially, it’s a psychological experience, related to a...

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"In the process of breaking us down, turmoil and trauma may also wake us up."

 

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"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

~ John Muir

 

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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439760.2021.1991445?src=recsys

Thinking about MIL [meaning in life] in other-oriented terms might exert positive effects on well-being, whereas a more self-focused belief could have detrimental effects.

 

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Are You Looking to Buddhism When You Should Be Looking to Therapy?

https://tricycle.org/magazine/buddhism-and-psychotherapy/ The ultimate goal of Buddhist practice isn’t about achieving mental health. By C. W. Huntington, Jr. Spring 2018 ...The practice of psychotherapy is, accordingly, dedicated to a method of healing that leaves the conventional structure...

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Mindfulness meditation in its “ultimate” application—as a Buddhist practice aimed toward realization of nibbana—is not concerned with shaping a functional ego. It is, rather, a way to disidentify with both health and illness, happiness and sorrow, pleasure and pain. To disidentify, that is, with the unavoidably painful nature of even the most refined varieties of self-centered experience.