[Buddha-l] Buddhism and Psychology research

[andy]

On Monday 06 September 2010 07:53:08 pm Dan Lusthaus wrote:
> Joanna,
> 
> Actually, I share your misgivings.
> 
> > what bugs me is the tendency to ascribe
> > only neurotic motivations to any and all critics, rivals etc.
> > Castigation may just be castigation, like a cigar sometimes is a
> > just a cigar, as the great man said.
> 
> Sometimes. And sometimes not. Freud's "only a cigar" gave him mouth cancer
> from which he died.
> 
Co-dependent origination?   Did I suddenly subscribe to a psycho-analysis 
list?  People!  Where is our obligatory Buddhist content?

(And, yes, I have read more than ten of the esteemed doctor's books)  
-- 
James Andy Stroble

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"The amount of violence at the disposal of any given country may soon not be a 
reliable indication of the country's strength or a reliable guarantee against 
destruction by a substantially smaller and weaker power."  --Hannah Arendt