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What are meditation and psychotherapy? In this lecture Sangharakshita appeals for a synthesis between the two approaches.
Talk given in 1970.
 | 1. | Introduction (3:18) |
| 2. | What is meditation? i. Unification and integration of psychic energies – true concentration and true selfhood (8:31) |
| 3. | Similes for the four progressive stages of concentration (5:44) |
| 4. | ii. Intensification and expansion iii. ‘Contemplation’ – Insight (6:00) |
| 5. | What is psychotherapy? Carl Jaspers’ definition; psychoanalysis – Freudian theory of repressed emotion; psychotherapy and the growth of mental illness (15:06) |
| 6. | The relation between meditation and psychotherapy – ‘an only-partial anatagonism’; some common features (6:09) |
| 7. | A vitally important difference (4:38) |
| 8. | ’Objections, counter-objections, and qualifications’ (8:27) |
| 9. | An appeal for synthesis (4:15) |
Total running time: 62:08
Dharmachakra
