How to Make a Decision When There Are No Good Choices
Acceptance and commitment therapy, which integrates psychological science with Buddhist ideas, offers a helpful framework for seemingly impossible situations.
Psychology
The Dangerous Art of Depersonalization
What psychedelics, psychosis, and mindfulness can teach us about no-self, and why set and setting play such an important role in ego deconstruction.
Talking to the Bodhisattva Inside
How the Jungian practice of “active imagination” can help us relate to Buddhism’s cosmic archetypes
Not Just Mindfulness
Psychotherapists have engaged with Buddhist traditions for over a century. Mindfulness is one small part.
The Couch and the Cushion: Why Mindfulness Is No Substitute for Therapy
Meditation may promote well-being and insight, but it isn’t a cure for psychological problems.
What School of Buddhism Is Right for You?
A psychologist and former monk explains how to find the tradition most suited to your personality.
Self-Help for the Affluent
Positive psychology's bourgie bias
Eastern Self/Western Self Revisited
My previous blog post reflecting on Gish Jen’s new book Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Independent Self, generated quite a bit of discussion. Some respondents dismissed as mere “personal observation” the claim that people from…
Eastern Self/Western Self
We in the West are quite concerned these days with how to make the dharma authentically Western. But caution please, folks. Before we start inventing a new flavor of Buddhism to suit Western palettes, it is…
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