Posted in Addiction Medicine on Sep 22nd, 2008
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2007 Jan;77(1):1-9.
Beitel M, Genova M, Schuman-Olivier Z, Arnold R, Avants SK, Margolin A.
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA.
A manual-guided, spirituality-focused intervention–spiritual self-schema (3-S) therapy–for the treatment of addiction and HIV-risk behavior was developed as part of a Stage I behavioral therapies development project. It is theoretically grounded in [...]
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Posted in Addiction Medicine on Sep 22nd, 2008
Subst Use Misuse. 1997 Mar;32(4):435-59; Barrett ME.
Department of Social Work and Psychology, National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore. swkmb@nus.sg
Since 1959 Wat Thamkrabok, a Buddhist monastery in Thailand, has been conducting a drug addiction rehabilitation program which claims a 70% success rate. The program is known for its use of unconventional methods, such as inducing [...]
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Volume 366, Issue 9489, 10 September 2005-16 September 2005, Pages 952-955, by D. Keown
End of life: the Buddhist view
In many Asian cultures, Buddhism is acknowledged as the religion that has most to say about death and the afterlife. Buddhist teachings emphasise the ubiquity and inevitability of death, and for this reason, Buddhists tend to [...]
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by Anne Bruce
RN PhD
The perception of time shifts as patients enter hospice care. As a complex, socially determined construct, time plays a significant role in end-of-life care. Drawing on Buddhist and Western perspectives, conceptualizations of linear and cyclical time are discussed alongside notions of time as interplay of embodied experience and concept. Buddhist [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 21st, 2008
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Pema Chodron’s No Time To Lose, A Timely Guide To The Way of The Bodhisattva. From her introduction: “I regard this text as an instruction manual for extending ourselves to others, a guidebook for compassionate action. We can read it to free ourselves from crippling habits and confusion. We can read it to encourage our [...]
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from Pema Chodron’s book No Time To Lose, A Timely Guide to The Way of The Bodhisattva, bodhicitta “is often translated as ‘awakened heart,’ and refers to an intense desire to alleviate suffering… We start close to home with the wish to help those we know and love, but the underlying inspiration is global and [...]
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Posted in Compassion on Sep 20th, 2008
by Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche, with David R. Shlim, M.D. “The purpose of this book is to investigate how to combine compassion with the art of healing.”
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Posted in Compassion, Tonglen on Sep 20th, 2008
Posted in Compassion on Sep 20th, 2008
From Joseph Goldstein’s One Dharma, The Emerging Western Buddhism, “… bodhicitta (the term used in the Tibetan tradition) is the practice of compassion and compassionate action. Compassion is the strong and deep feeling that wants to alleviate the suffering of beings, and it arises when we allow ourselves to come close to suffering, both our [...]
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