The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

We all come to practice with questions, perhaps the most basic of which is “Why am I suffering?” We also come to practice with our private answers to that question, answers that involve blaming ourselves or others, or which catch us in endless cycles of hope and disappointment. These answers lie buried within our minds as grim unconscious beliefs,

Just as consciousness mysteriously mirrors the dual wave and particle nature of light, our own body is a realm of contradiction. Carl Jung reminds us to respect “the original animal nature of our body.” But then he continues, the body is also “connected with the highest forms of the spirit.” He insists that we can bloom only when spirit and instinc

it is possible that certain factors might cause neuroses during early childhood and that entirely different factors might relieve neuroses during adulthood.”

that I have. I call this a “psychological” insight because the basic task of all psychologically-minded practice is re-owning the split-off and denied or dissociated aspects of our mind. Through psychologically-minded practice we learn to accept all the contents of our mind.