Research Catalog

Title

Buddhist practice on Western ground : reconciling Eastern ideals and Western psychology / Harvey B. Aronson.

Author

Aronson, Harvey B.

Publication

Boston : Shambhala : Distributed in the United States by Random House, 2004.

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Details

Description

xvii, 253 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"This is the first book to offer Buddhist meditators a comprehensive and sympathetic examination of the differences between Asian and Western cultural and spiritual values. Harvey B. Aronson presents a constructive and practical assessment of common conflicts experienced by Westerners who look to Eastern spiritual traditions for guidance and support - and find themselves confused or disappointed."--Jacket.

Subject

• Buddhism > Psychology
• Psychotherapy > Buddhism
• Psychology and religion
• Meditation > Buddhism
• East and West
• Religion and Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-242) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Light and shadow -- Eastern ideals -- The joys and perils of individuality -- Mirrors and reflections -- Spirituality: local and express -- Psychotherapy in the context of ongoing Buddhist practice -- Ego, ego on the wall: what is ego after all? -- Anger: abandon it or express it? -- A middle path on anger -- Embodied love -- Attachment east and west -- Traditional approaches to nonattachment -- Making nonattachment real -- Presence and absence in life and practice -- Practice, performance, and finding our voices -- Life as pilgrimage.

ISBN

1590300939 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003027755

OCLC

54029595

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library