Comments on: “Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha,” by Tara Brach http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/book-reviews/radical-acceptance-tara-brach Explore Meditation Online Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:22:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bodhipaksa http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/book-reviews/radical-acceptance-tara-brach/comment-page-1#comment-35625 Bodhipaksa Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:40:26 +0000 http://test.wildmind.org/blogs/book-reviews/radical-acceptance-embracing-your-life-with-the-heart-of-a-buddha-by-tara-brach#comment-35625 I haven't watched that particular video, but I do think that Freudian ideas have been unhelpful in some ways to many people. I've often met people who think that something is wrong if they are happy! The underlying idea there is that all the messy id-stuff is what is really real, and that if you're happy you're simply repressing difficult experiences. Believing that every impulse you have comes ultimately from sexual desire and from hatred is a perfect recipe for self-loathing. The Buddhist view tends to be more that it's positive emotions that are more fundamental to our nature, and that destructive emotions are more superficial. The idea that bodhi is possible comes from that way of seeing things -- if what was more real was all the bad stuff there would be no hope of enlightenment. I haven’t watched that particular video, but I do think that Freudian ideas have been unhelpful in some ways to many people. I’ve often met people who think that something is wrong if they are happy! The underlying idea there is that all the messy id-stuff is what is really real, and that if you’re happy you’re simply repressing difficult experiences. Believing that every impulse you have comes ultimately from sexual desire and from hatred is a perfect recipe for self-loathing.

The Buddhist view tends to be more that it’s positive emotions that are more fundamental to our nature, and that destructive emotions are more superficial. The idea that bodhi is possible comes from that way of seeing things — if what was more real was all the bad stuff there would be no hope of enlightenment.

]]> By: Mita http://www.wildmind.org/blogs/book-reviews/radical-acceptance-tara-brach/comment-page-1#comment-35350 Mita Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:53:08 +0000 http://test.wildmind.org/blogs/book-reviews/radical-acceptance-embracing-your-life-with-the-heart-of-a-buddha-by-tara-brach#comment-35350 I love Tara Brach's warm heartfelt insights and experiential wisdom and personally relate to her work. My own journey to wholeness began with acceptance of self and others in radical ways. I am wondering though whether the source of self-loathing coming of something missing within us is conditined somehow by abuse of freudian psychoanalysis as elaborated in the google video "century of self'. peace www.seek2know.net I love Tara Brach’s warm heartfelt insights and experiential wisdom and personally relate to her work. My own journey to wholeness began with acceptance of self and others in radical ways. I am wondering though whether the source of self-loathing coming of something missing within us is conditined somehow by abuse of freudian psychoanalysis as elaborated in the google video “century of self’.

peace
http://www.seek2know.net

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