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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: LLCF who wrote (23662)5/23/2006 8:07:43 PM
From: spiral3  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
Awareness is practically the entire quest of Buddhist psychology... probably Western Psychology as well.

While both pursuits do work with our awareness I believe that there is a significant difference in their goals. My understanding is that up t ill now, but this is changing rapidly in some quarters, Western Psychology has largely focused on the ability to manage negative afflictions while the Buddhist practices are designed to go much further in two respects. Firstly they aim to ultimately eliminate these negative states altogether and then to consciously develop the positive aspects of the mind much further than would be normal under traditional (Freudian) western therapy. It seems more useful to think of awareness as a tool rather than as the object of a quest in and of itself.
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