Wildmind's meditation blog
Wildmind's blogs are where you'll find book reviews, commentary, podcasts, and articles that don't fit neatly into the more structured guides to meditation that you'll find on the main part of the site. Articles are arranged below by date, and you can also browse by author and category using the links on the left.
Original faces: Reflections on purification
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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 … Click to read more »
“Buddhist Psychology” by Geshe Tashi Tsering
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 … Click to read more »