The mixing of the two, Buddhism and psychotherapy is one thing but what makes it effective or not is the mixer, the person behind the "mixing". The person can empower the so-called techniques (ideas whether considered Buddhist or psychotherapy) or the person can fall into coloring it in such a way that it is not what it is in the hands of another person. Even in the world of concrete objects rather than the world of subtle meaning, we find that a hammer as a tool becomes something different in the hands of a master carpenter and even more so, in the hands of a master carpenter who is also an artist. The human mind needs to be able to access the mind before concepts that divide. Something like living in the question or innocent wonder. The two categories spoken of here can be distinguished yet we also need to know that equally well that are not separate at the deeper levels. Also no so-called technique or teaching is separate from the person who is using it. Humor, humility, compassion and the wisdom of the reality of love and all such qualities are universal, not limited to any lines we might draw by making maps of the territory. Useful but not primary, we can't get the territory from the map. Thanks be and may all farewell on their way.
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The mixing of the two, Buddhism and psychotherapy is one thing but what makes it effective or not is the mixer, the person behind the "mixing". The person can empower the so-called techniques (ideas whether considered Buddhist or psychotherapy) or the person can fall into coloring it in such a way that it is not what it is in the hands of another person. Even in the world of concrete objects rather than the world of subtle meaning, we find that a hammer as a tool becomes something different in the hands of a master carpenter and even more so, in the hands of a master carpenter who is also an artist. The human mind needs to be able to access the mind before concepts that divide. Something like living in the question or innocent wonder. The two categories spoken of here can be distinguished yet we also need to know that equally well that are not separate at the deeper levels. Also no so-called technique or teaching is separate from the person who is using it. Humor, humility, compassion and the wisdom of the reality of love and all such qualities are universal, not limited to any lines we might draw by making maps of the territory. Useful but not primary, we can't get the territory from the map. Thanks be and may all farewell on their way.