Drawing from original source material, contemporary scholarship, and Wilfred Bion’s psychoanalytic writings, Zen Insight, Psychoanalytic Action: Two Arrows Meeting introduces the Zen notion of gujin, or total exertion, and elaborates a realizational perspective that integrates Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis. This book explains this pivotal Zen concept and addresses themes by drawing from translated source material, academic scholarship, traditional Zen koans and teaching stories, and extensive commentarial literature. From a realizational perspective that integrates Zen and psychoanalytic concepts, the book addresses anxiety-driven interferences to deepened Zen practice and facilitates deepened experiences for both the Buddhist and the secular meditation practitioner.
Key Features
- Integrates Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis.
- Explains the Zen concept of gujin in depth.
- Utilises a wide range of source materials, including traditional koans and contemporary writings.
- Addresses themes relevant to both psychotherapists and meditation practitioners.
Additional Information
Developed by the thirteenth century Zen teacher and founder of the Japanese Soto Zen school, Eihei Dogen, gujin finds expression and is referenced in various contemporary scholarly and religious commentaries. This book will be of great interest to researchers in the fields of Zen Buddhism and psychoanalysis. It will also appeal to meditation practitioners and psychoanalysts in practice and training.
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