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The Wisdom of Imperfection, Rob Preece
14 years 10 months ago #619
by Jackson
The Wisdom of Imperfection, Rob Preece was created by Jackson
I'm just now finishing up
The Wisdom of Imperfection
by Rob Preece.
Preece is a long time meditation practitioner of Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. Like many Western Buddhists with brains, he began studying Western psychology after many years of intense practice. Many of the clients he see in his psychotherapy practice are Buddhists. After noticing some trends regarding issues that tend to arise for us yogis (including himself), he wrote a book about how Western psychology can aid one's Buddhist practice, much the same way that one's Buddhist practice can aid in psychotherapy.
I find the book a bit wordy. Preece is into Jungian analysis, and so there's a lot of talk about archetypes in relation to Tantric deities and other themes out of Vajrayana Buddhism. The basic themes are good, and the book contains a lot of useful information about some of the common blind spots that occur through a Buddhist practice unexamined by the lens of other psychological disciplines.
I recommend it, but there are others that I would think take priority over this book. I got more out of Jack Kornfield's After the Ecstasy, the Laundry , although that book was even more inter-faith than Preece's. I guess this book may be particularly helpful to those with more experience with Tantric Buddhism, as the issues discussed will be easier to apply in that context.
-Jackson
Preece is a long time meditation practitioner of Tibetan Buddhist Tantra. Like many Western Buddhists with brains, he began studying Western psychology after many years of intense practice. Many of the clients he see in his psychotherapy practice are Buddhists. After noticing some trends regarding issues that tend to arise for us yogis (including himself), he wrote a book about how Western psychology can aid one's Buddhist practice, much the same way that one's Buddhist practice can aid in psychotherapy.
I find the book a bit wordy. Preece is into Jungian analysis, and so there's a lot of talk about archetypes in relation to Tantric deities and other themes out of Vajrayana Buddhism. The basic themes are good, and the book contains a lot of useful information about some of the common blind spots that occur through a Buddhist practice unexamined by the lens of other psychological disciplines.
I recommend it, but there are others that I would think take priority over this book. I got more out of Jack Kornfield's After the Ecstasy, the Laundry , although that book was even more inter-faith than Preece's. I guess this book may be particularly helpful to those with more experience with Tantric Buddhism, as the issues discussed will be easier to apply in that context.
-Jackson