I listened to Michael Britt's podcast so I would like to add some more
comments.I am quite familiar with existential psychology,having attended Gannon
Univeresity at a time when existentialism was hot.A related Catholic university
(Duquesne ) established an Existential psychology program under
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:18:58 -0700, michael sylvester wrote:
[snip]
The phrase if you meet the Budha on the road,kill him goes
way way back of the foundations of Zen.
There are a couple of points to keep in mind about this statement:
(1) Zen Buddhism emphasizes the importance of experience
] Existential Psychology
On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:30:27 -0700, Michael Sylvester wrote:
My favorite is In walking,just walk-do not wobble.
Talking is easy. Being is hard.
Re Mindfulness,there is an interesting essay in the Asian Journal
of Thomas Merton.
Can you be more specific?
Re your root canal
I'll start out by saying that existentialism is far from my field of expertise,
yet we do run across the topic occasionally in the textbooks so I gave the
topic a stab in the most recent episode of my podcast. I tried to make the
topic a bit more accessible by relating it to a very funny
