Psychology of Awakening (Personality Psychology)

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D I A N A P A U L A R E V E C H E

 A N G E L R O S E T R O C I O

Psychology of 

 Awakening

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 Personality as a path rather

than pathology 

Is PERSONALITY 

a flaw or

a pathto spiritual unfolding?

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PATHOLOGY 

pa·thol·o·gy (p -th l -j ). n. pl.pa·thol·o·gies.

1. The scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes,

development, and consequences.

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Path A way or track laid

down for walking ormade by continual

treading.

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THERAPEUTIC AGRESSION

Trying to bring abouttransformation though

 waging an assault of conditioned personality 

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HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU AS A PERSON?

It attacks the personality to rob people of the basic material they needfor their journey of 

awakening

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HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU AS A PERSON?

It implies a basic message that you

 would be a better person if you were someone different from theone you truly are

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HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU AS A PERSON?

It makes coercive attempts to

dismantle the personality only to heighten division, conflictand strain to ego

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When is personality a path than pathology?

 when we learn to work  with ourselves as we

are, withoutaggression or blame

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When is personality a path than pathology?

 We must create conditionsthat encourage thepersonality structure to

 break open from within,revealing essentialqualities of our being that

are hidden within.

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When is personality a path than pathology?

“When you clean yourteapot, then the teapot wakes you up.” – Chogyam Trungpa

(When you work on your personality structure, your personality wakes you up.)

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  IDENTITY FORMATION 

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Three Marks of Existence

1. The difficult realities of pain

2. Impermanence

3. Lack of solid, definite sense of who we are

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 But since our life is marked by

 fear of potential nonexistence,we give rise to…. 

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IDENTITY PROJECT

a. the attempt to make ourselves intosomething solid, substantial and real

 b. a way counter the threat of nonexistence;

usually made possible through building self images and stories that identify who they are

c. the desire to overcome our fear of being

deficient, to know ourselves, to value others,and to feel that we are real

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COEMERGENCE

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 Awakened mind and the confused mindas two sides of the same reality are saidto co-emerge

(Example: neurosis-sanity, imprisonment-freedom,existence-nonexistence, pathology-path)

Defensive strategies used as advantages

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IDENTITY CRISIS ANDEXISTENTIAL CHOICE 

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IDENTITY CRISIS

Marks the beginning of a path of unlocking

the intelligence, sanity and the otherpowerful inner resources that we have

 been locked up in our conditionedpersonality 

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Three main existential choices

Pathological Choice 1: Remain stagnant in yourcurrent post and not to risk moving forward into theunknown and uncertain because our old identity hasoutlived its usefulness

Pathological Choice 2: Attack or punish ourselves forthe personality we have become, or to strive with all ourmight to live up to an ideal of who we should be

The choice to Path: Opening ourselves to our

experience and facing and working with ourselves as weare, instead of aggressively trying to make ourselves intosomething different

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Working ourselves as weare

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The first step in turning personality 

into path is developing a commitmentto seeing ourselves as we are, no matter what we‟ll discover.

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 Awareness practice

(eg. Meditation, innercontemplative inquiry) helpsdevelop the capacity to

 witness what we are doing without becoming caught upin judging it as good or bad.

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TRANSMUTING NEUROSIS 

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If we blame ourselves for our personality patterns, we cannot access the gift contained within them and thus only impoverish

ourselves further.

 Whatever problem, question, or confusion

 we have, whatever seems impossible in ourlives becomes our path

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Ego as Grasping

Ego is a structure built on self-representations –  Western psychology 

Ego is an activity, a recurring tendency to makeoneself into something solid and defined. – Buddhistpsychology 

Dak-Dzin – a Tibetan term often translated to as egois grasping at self or holding on to the „I‟ I think myself to be.

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The five layers of skandha:

Me or form – It is the birth of ignorance. Correspond to thestage when the child identifies with the body: “I am this

 body.” 

Feeling – Feeling out situations to see if they are for us oragainst us.

Perception or impulse – involves adopting a stance (of passion, aggression or ignorance) toward situations.

Conceptualization – We generate elaborate beliefs and

interpretations about reality based on our patterns of hopeand fear. The ongoing stream of consciousness – where all the first four

skandhas come to fruition.

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Ego and Egolessness

Ego – awareness in a contracted state

Egolessness – It is awareness in a relaxed state.

Ego is dying and being reborn at every moment. We continually have to letgo of what we have already thought, accomplished, known, experienced and

 become.

Existential anxiety – sense of impending death, a realization that I isnothing solid and is continually threatened by the process of dissolving.

Egolessness is awareness that allows us to face and accept death in all itsforms.

Narcissism is inherent in the ego, but the development of the ego involves adeparture from primal narcissism. – Freud