Saccanama has heard Vajrasattva’s bell calling him to realize his own innate purity, and is on a return journey to reconnect with his own stainless nature.

At the beginning of the Purgatorio, the second great canticle of Dante’s Divine Comedy,
Dante and Virgil emerge from the darkness of the Inferno to see “the tender tint of orient sapphire.” It is dawn, and Venus, “the lovely planet kindling love in man,” lights up the eastern sky. To the West lie the four stars of the four cardinal virtues. As they
proceed towards the mountain they are to climb on their pilgrimage, the two men stop:

What are the principle differences between Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy? Three answers come immediately to mind.

Firstly, Buddhist psychology is primarily concerned with the ethical status of our mental states rather than with identifying their causes in earlier life experiences.

Secondly, while Western psychotherapy aims to heal our inevitably damaged psyche of its mental and emotional turbulence, Buddhist psychology sees the mind as the original source of its own conflict and pain and therefore aims at a deep and radical transformation of our mind i.e. it is not just ameliorative but fundamentally transformative in its aims.

Thirdly, Buddhism sees that what we have to transform arises not just from conditioning in …