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

Description

This collection of twenty-one articles by the Tibetan Buddhist meditation master Chgyam Trungpa Rinpoche presents insights into meditation, mind, and psychology that he shared with Western psychologists, psychotherapists, and students of Buddhist meditation in America in the 1970s and '80s. Fundamentally, the book is about how any of us can work with ourselves and others to strengthen our inherent human sanity, which Trungpa describes as "basic goodness," healthiness, and wakefulness.

Choegyam Trungpa (1940-1987)-meditation master, teacher, and artist-founded Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, the first Buddhist-inspired university in North America; the Shambhala Training program; and an international association of meditation centers known as Shambhala International. He is the author of numerous books including Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism, and The Myth of Freedom.

"Choegyam Trungpa was the first Buddhist master to present Buddhism in a psychological language that spoke directly to the Western mind. This highly recommended volume, which brings together his penetrating views on Buddhist and Western psychology, will be of great interest to psychotherapists, students of Dharma, and anyone who is concerned with the relationship between the native sun of awakened wisdom within us and the psychological clouds that obscure its light."-John Welwood, author of Towards a Psychology of Awakening