Path of Wisdom, Path of Peace

[mtnwmn]

PATH OF WISDOM, PATH OF PEACE:
A Personal Conversation
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
with Felizitas Von Schonborn

"It is possible to understand the Buddhist teachings as a method of psychological healing, comparable to psychotherapy, that teaches us how we can master destructive forces like anger, envy, and greed. Human beings seem to be a bundle of different qualities and psychological processes. We should attentively examine our qualities and be alertly aware of our experiences in order to recognize what we truly feel and think. At the same time, the personality of human beings is not seen as a unified whole. According to these teachings, the heart of consciousness is composed of various elements, the five types of attachment, or skandhas: body, sensations, perceptions, instinctual forces, and consciousness.

These inner forces impart the false concept of an ego-consciousness. The basic problem of emotional disorders therefore lies in a false concept of identity. This I-blindness should therefore be abolished through self-study.... The goal is not self-realization but selflessness."

Snow Lion Publications:

http://www.snowlionpub.com/search.php?isbn=PAWIPA

[sampa]

When one speak of Self-realisation,one refer to the one True identity of Dharmakaya.In speaking of selflessness[absence of self],the self here refer to the five skandhas or illusionary self[Nimarkaya body].Words can be confusing.Some use SELF to indicate the difference with self.

[sarit]

The Dharmakaya  is non referential, non objective, and therefore has no identity and no true self.