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Compassion Practices: Working with Terror, Trauma, and Transcendence
Steven Goodman
While experiences of fear and some degree of trauma are
part of the human condition, the meaning we give to these
experiences and how we integrate them into our lives can vary
widely. Likewise, when a terrifying experience lingers as
trauma, a person’s response often manifests paradoxically
as an unconscious yearning for transcendent experience. Tibetan
Buddhist compassion practices offer natural ways of accepting
and integrating negative material into a confident and responsive
way of living.
In this intensive, experiential workshop, participants explore
various practices—calming relaxation, mindful awareness,
and tantric visualization—that can help to create a
context for identifying and integrating painful, emotionally
conflicted aspects of the psyche.
| Steven
Goodman, PhD, is core faculty and codirector
of the Asian and Comparative Studies program in
the Philosophy and Religion Department at CIIS,
where he teaches Buddhism and comparative philosophy.
A former Rockefeller fellow and visiting professor
in Religious Studies at Rice University, he has
taught and lectured widely on Buddhism, meditation,
and Western psychology for the past 25 years.
He is coeditor of Tibetan Buddhism: Reason
and Revelation and contributor to Mindfulness
and Meaningful Work.
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