"The genius of Tulku Urgyen was that he could point out the nature of mind with precision and matter-of-factness of teaching a person how to thread a needle and could get an ordinary meditator like me to recognize that consciousness is intrinsically free of self ... I came to Tulku Urgyen yearning for the experience of self-transcendence, and in a few minutes he showed me I had no self to transcend ... Tulku Urgyen simply handed me the ability to cut through the illusion of the self directly, even in ordinary states of consciousness. This instruction was, without question, the most important thing I have ever been explicitly taught by another human being. It has given me a way to escape the usual tides of psychological suffering - fear, anger, shame - in an instant. "
3rd April 2012
I have been writing about Lynne Angus & Les Greenberg's book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy: changing stories, healing lives". So far, I have put up three posts "Narrative in emotion-focused therapy (1st post): context", "Narrative ... (2nd post): narrative types & modes" and "Narrative ... (3rd post): narrative …