Psychoanalytic and Buddhist reflections on gentleness : sensitivity, fear and the drive towards truth /: sensitivity, fear and the drive towards truth. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michal Barnea-Astrog.
• Authors: Barnea-Astrog, Michal
• Contents: Chapter One: On Gentleness To Be in the World Unheld The Gap Sensitivity and Gentleness Gentleness, Violence and the Drive toward the Good Chapter Two: The Path of Gentleness Behavior, Meditation, and Wisdom The Necessary Equipment Gentleness and Destructiveness Nina: An Unconscious Struggle between the Gentleness of Mind and Internalized Social Norms Beyond Mindfulness Some Reflections on the Attitude to Truth Chapter Three: Between Pain and Pleasure Khaṇasutta: The Opportunity The Mind’s Substrate The Good Object A Good Environment Nourishment Holding a Gentle Baby Louise: A Choreography of Nuances Necessary Goodness and Instinctual Gratification The Adult Mind From Prince to Ascetic Sensation and Thirst The Mind that Sees Itself The Objects of Desire Subtle Pleasantness Chapter Four: A Home in the Universe Becoming, Separation, and Fear The Big Bang Truth and Faith: Following the Signs of Existence Some Words about Memory, Desire, and Knowledge Faith as a Scientific State of Mind Saddhā: Sober Faith Holding and Surrender Non-Clinging Dwelling in the Unsettled Space of Not-Knowing Chapter Five: Attention as an Environment Conditioned Arising: Self-Environment Relations Associating: Examining the Elements in the Environment A Sense of Environmental Toxicity Discord and Harmony Two Species of Accuracy Inner Attentional Environment: The Mental Space The Interpersonal Attentional Environment: Quiet Love and Openness to Truth Marina: To Lend an Ear to the Feeble, To See the Hidden Through a Veil Holding and Letting Go Non-Clinging and Movement Instrumental vs Non-Instrumental Thinking Rigidity, Flexibility and Dissolution Giving up on a Sense of Expertise Out of Chaos, Form Arises Conditioned Arising: An Environment within the Self within the Environment Epilogue: Reflections on Time and Space
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 177.1; Courtesy; Psychoanalysis; Buddhism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429764868; 9780429764875; 9780429764851; 9780429427732
• Related ISBNs: 9781138371187; 9781138371194
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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