Mind is like the sky
Like dark clouds, distressful thoughts and emotions obscure mind's clarity, tranquility and capacity to respond. Each time we recognize the transparent nature of thoughts and emotions, the clear sky of awareness shines through.
Effortless Mindfulness: Genuine mental health through awakened presence offers a uniquely modern Buddhist psychological understanding of mental health disorders through a scholarly, yet clinically useful presentation of Theravada, Mahāyāna and Vajrayāna Buddhist teachings and practices.
This textbook is written specifically for Western psychotherapeutic professionals. It integrates traditional Buddhist psychology and contemporary clinical practice and psychoneurobiosocial research.
This in-depth exploration of Buddhist psychology includes complete instructions for psychotherapists in authentic, clinically appropriate Buddhist mindfulness and heartfulness practices and Buddhist psychological inquiry skills.
Like dark clouds, distressful thoughts and emotions obscure mind's clarity, tranquility and capacity to respond. Each time we recognize the transparent nature of thoughts and emotions, the clear sky of awareness shines through.
Resting in the mind's innate luminosity actuates the liberative power of awakened presence, which reveals how all internal experience, like the clouds, come and go. Realizing there is nothing to hold on to lessens affective stickiness and mental agitation. And now mind can clearly comprehend the causes of mental and emotional suffering and open to the wisdom and openheartedness of non-suffering.
I am offering new learning content on the Buddhist Psychology Podcast. To learn more about my clinical work with patients visit my website.
Recordings of recent dharma talks can be heard on the Groundless Ground Podcast.The complete catalogue of old dharma talks can be accessed on my clinical website.
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Lisa Dale Miller LMFT, LPCC, SEP