EWP 7565 - Self/No-Self/Authentic Self:The Buddhist Psychology of Self-Experience

Institution:

California Institute of Integral Studies

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Description:

An in-depth exploration of important Buddhist understandings of the self and self-experience, including early Buddhist formulations; the importance of sunyata ( emptiness) teachings; the Yogacara model for transformation of self-experience; and the Zen teachings on self and noself. Key practices that have evolved from these understandings of the self and of suffering including mindfulness, tonglen and other relational compassion practices, zazen, and work and other engaged ethically based practices.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

Phone Number:

(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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