When we develop the prior steps on the Noble Eightfold Path, there is now a method to look clearer into this human experience. Mindfulness illuminates how reactivity works in the mind and the body, and it reminds us what we are supposed to be doing with the Eightfold Path: To find the Supreme Happiness of Peace.
Taking Stock is exactly that. I provide a summary I've what I've covered and how it all works together. I also include some of what I learned in Psychoanalysis and how Narcissism is factoring in big with Woke Psychology contemporaneously. We have to look at the Psychological Objects in our minds with meditation and see the hidden aggression and do something about it before it's too late. We are also broaching June 1st which is World Narcissistic Abuse Awareness Day (https://wnaad.com/) and it's important to look at all professions and how this infection of Narcissism can seep into all supposedly good deeds, and even in areas that are supposedly heroically fighting it. Any institution, including psychology and therapy, are not immune. It ends on a note of the pressure we can feel sometimes for growth.
Blog: http://psychreviews.org/emotional-feeding/
Part of the divide between Theravada Buddhist attitudes, and later forms of Buddhism, is the insight of interrelatedness. To Thanissaro, interrelatedness, inter-being, or interdependence is not a happy realization, because of the mind's need for emotional feeding. He says, "all living beings depend on food. Interrelated is the process of eating. We eat each other. Physical, emotional and mental food." All human conflicts relate to feeding, especially on things that cannot be shared. There are good elements to interrelatedness as later traditions of Buddhism point out, but there is danger if the negative side is forgotten. He reminds us that even if we only feed on vegetables, there's a lot of suffering required to farm, process and transport food for consumption. By being hungry we are interdependent to the environment, which has so much that is out of our power.
Intro: 0:00
Feeding the Mind: 0:43
Skillful feeding: 1:51
The Manipulative Ego: 2:55
The Challenge: 4:13
Internal and External rewards: 6:06
Emotional Dysregulation: 7:12
The Mind has a Mind of its own: 9:37
Focus on your own work: 12:14
Unstable sources of food: 13:50
How to practice: 16:23
Savouring: 17:42
Skillful Thinking: 19:13
Appreciate where you are: 20:07
Blameless Feeding: 21:00
The Committee: 22:04
Facing Death: 23:52
Emotional Feeding Guided Meditation: https://youtu.be/w8EqmDPQlPg
Guided Meditation for Chronic Pain: https://youtu.be/Zz94iw8ElKY
Thanissaro's website: https://www.dhammatalks.org/
A New Year's Day Guided Meditation - Emotional Feeding: https://youtu.be/Sdoj1XyB9bI
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Blog: http://psychreviews.org/the-presocratics-pythagoras/
One of the early Presocratics to create a cultish following was Pythagoras. Mixing mathematics with a purity dogma, he managed to end up being a major influence on Western Philosophy.
Intro: 0:00
Pythagoras of Samos: 0:50
Transmigration of the souls: 9:03
Mathematics: 15:24
Alcmaeon: 22:50
Pythagoreans and Aristotle: 24:00
Later influences: 30:54
Plato's test for leadership: 32:44
Resources:
The Presocratic Philosophers - G.S. Kirk: eTextbook: https://amzn.to/3np80tu Paperback: https://amzn.to/3pyX3Yn
A History of Pythagoreanism - Carl Huffman: Kindle: https://amzn.to/32Nh2J7 Paperback: https://amzn.to/2KfwCH3
Philosophy before Socrates - Richard McKirahan: Kindle: https://amzn.to/38OOz9o Paperback: https://amzn.to/36I5Qi5
A Presocratic Reader - Richard McKirahan: Kindle: https://amzn.to/38IDJBS Paperback: https://amzn.to/3pw7pIe
The Complete Pythagoras - Mohamed Amer: https://amzn.to/2Iv36MV
Plato at Syracuse - Various authors: Kindle: https://amzn.to/3lWbuDw Paperback: https://amzn.to/33pKsNN
Plato, Epistles: Letter 7: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0164:letter=7
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So much the of fear of success comes from what we deem as a True Self and being able to gain success with a clear conscience. If you look closely, the True Self appears to be built up of many Selves, and there's confusion on which one to follow at any one time.
Intro: 0:00
Ontological Disease: 0:24
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Resources:
Deceit, Desire, & the Novel - René Girard: Paperback: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780801818301/
Violence and the sacred - René Girard: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780801822186/
Things hidden since the foundation of the world - René Girard: Paperback: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780804722155/
The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays - Dumouchel, Paul: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781611861327/
René Girard's Mimetic Theory - Palaver, Wolfgang: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781611860771/
The One by Whom Scandal Comes - René Girard: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781611861099/
The Past Recaptured: Marcel Proust's Aesthetic Theory Author(s): John Arthur Hogan Source: Ethics, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Jan., 1939), pp. 187-203
Time Regained - Marcel Proust: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300691h.html
How Proust Can Change Your Life - Alain De Botton: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780679779155/
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Blog: https://psychreviews.org/object-relations-melanie-klein-pt-1/
She was an iconoclast who straddled the line between orthodox Freudianism while at the same time adding many new elements from her experience in child psychology. Like most other theorists, she used her own psyche and her environment for material for her theories and analytical practice. Her life was full of struggle and triumph, full of allies and enemies, including within her own family. This is a story of a woman who had to push through towards recognition starting from childhood all the way through her life. This is the story of Melanie Klein.
All photos, video, and music from Pixabay, Pexels, Wikipedia, The Melanie Klein Trust, Musopen, and Craiyon.
Intro: 0:00
Forbidden Wishes: 1:05
Repression: 27:23
School Castration: 41:16
Developing The Self: 50:23
Resources:
Melanie Klein Trust: https://melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/
Love, Guilt and Reparation: And Works 1921-1945 (The Writings of Melanie Klein, Volume 1) by Melanie Klein: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780743237659/
The New Dictionary of Kleinian Thought by Elizabeth Bott Spillius, Jane E. Milton, Penelope Garvey, Cyril Couve, Deborah Steiner: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9780415592598/
Melanie Klein by Penelope Garvey: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781032105246/
Melanie Klein: Her World and Her Work by Phyllis Grosskurth: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781568214450/
Analyst of the Imagination by Jenny Pearson: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781855759046/
The War Inside by Michal Shapira: https://www.isbns.net/isbn/9781107035133/
Hernandez-Halton I. Klein, Ferenczi and the clinical diary. Am J Psychoanal. 2015 Mar;75(1):76-85.
Blog: http://psychreviews.org/dependent-co-arising-various-authors/
Welcome to Psych Reviews. In this video I am tackling one of the most difficult subjects to understand in Buddhism and that is the study of how suffering is caused. It is called Dependent Co-arising.
Intro: 0:00
Dependent Co-arising 0:38
Disclaimer 2:18
Alternate sequence 4:05
Ignorance 6:17
Four Noble Truths 6:28
The Eightfold Path 6:58
Aging and death 7:36
Birth 8:44
Becoming 9:16
Clinging 9:56
Craving 11:44
Feeling 12:50
Name and Form 13:32
Consciousness 14:54
Fabrication 16:00
Eightfold path 17:16
What is the deathless like? 22:42
Outro 24:14
The Shape of Suffering – Thanissaro Bhikkhu: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/shapeofsuffering.pdf
The Great Discourse on Causation: The Mahanidana Sutta and its Commentaries – Translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi: Paperback: https://amzn.to/2VeeFe2
Buddhessence – Darryl Bailey: http://www.darrylbailey.net/books/
Under the Bodhi Tree: Buddha's Original Vision of Dependent Co-arising - Ajahn Buddhadasa Bhikkhu: Kindle: https://amzn.to/2Vbon0P Paperback: https://amzn.to/2J99Lg8
The Noble Eightfold Path – Thanissaro Bhikkhu: https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/eightfoldPath_150211.pdf
Lusting While Loathing: Parallel Counterdriving of Wanting and Liking Ab Litt, Uzma Khan, and Baba Shiv Stanford University
Identity and authentic change
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http://psychreviews.org/inner-bonding-guided-meditation/
Spiritual Bypassing and Inner Bonding
http://psychreviews.org/spiritual-bypassing-and-inner-bonding/
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Blog: http://psychreviews.org/the-ego-the-id-and-the-superego-sigmund-freud/
Freud theorizes how the conceptual ego is developed.
Intro: 0:00
Id: 1:21
Repression: 13:57
Ego: 28:08
Super-ego: 42:05
Outro: 1:03:40
Resources:
The Ego and the Id - Sigmund Freud: Kindle: https://amzn.to/3o3FYUP Paperback: https://amzn.to/3q5F5ga
On Metapsychology - Sigmund Freud: Paperback: https://amzn.to/3fNkOam
The Uncanny- Sigmund Freud: Kindle: https://amzn.to/3o5PI0B Paperback: https://amzn.to/3fRxgWH
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Beethoven - Variations and Fugue in E 'Eroica', Op. 35 - Ivan Ilic
Bach - Cello Suite no. 6 in D, BWV 1012 - Colin Carr
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