Posted by dj on June 29, 2000, at 21:19:33
In reply to Zen and Learning Dissociation: Sara T, DJ, posted by shar on June 29, 2000, at 20:59:19
> I think many of my own problems result from being too drawn in, taking things too personally, not being detached enough to see a larger picture, not feeling separate from others.
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> So, I agree that this can be a good thing, and can be cultivated.
>Laura Archea Huxley wrote a book called "You Are Not the Target", 20 years ago, based on the principal of detachment, which is what much buddhist training and other techniques (yoga, etc.) focus upon - experiencing pain and pleasures and seperating those sensations from the feeling of suffering and ectasy or what have you that we attach to them.
In "Undoing Depression", Richard O'Connor also talks about cultivating detachment, creativity and an ability to experience things as they are, not as we learn to distort them to be...
Sante!
dj
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