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Was The Buddha The Founder Of Psychology?
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Cognitive Analytic Therapy, preferably.
The CAT practitioner aims to work with the patient to identify procedural sequences; chains of events, thoughts, emotions and motivations that explain how a target problem (for example self-harm) is established and maintained.
Wikipedia CAT sounds a little like Buddha's practise of
yonisomanasikara
(wise reflection; adjusting thought to reality), as follows:
Monks, before my self-awakening, when I was still just an unawakened Bodhisatta, the thought occurred to me: 'Why don't I keep dividing my thinking into two sorts?'
I made thinking imbued with sensuality, thinking imbued with ill will & thinking imbued with harmfulness one sort and thinking imbued with renunciation, thinking imbued with non-ill will & thinking imbued with harmlessness another sort.
[When] thinking imbued with sensuality...ill-will...harmfulness... arose in me. I discerned that 'Thinking imbued with sensuality...ill-will...harmfulness... has arisen in me; and that leads to my own affliction or to the affliction of others or to the affliction of both. It obstructs discernment, promotes vexation & does not lead to peace (Nibbana).'
Just as in the last month of the Rains, in the autumn season when the crops are ripening, a cowherd would look after his cows: He would tap & poke & check & curb them with a stick on this side & that. Why is that? Because he foresees flogging or imprisonment or a fine or public censure arising from that [if he let his cows wander into the crops]. In the same way I foresaw in unskillful qualities drawbacks, degradation & defilement, and I foresaw in skillful qualities rewards related to renunciation & promoting cleansing.
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[When] thinking imbued with renunciation...non ill-will...harmlessness ... arose in me. I discerned that 'Thinking imbued with renunciation...non ill-will...harmlessness ... has arisen in me; and that leads neither to my own affliction, nor to the affliction of others, nor to the affliction of both. It fosters discernment, promotes lack of vexation & leads to peace. If I were to think & ponder in line with that even for a night... even for a day... even for a day & night, I do not envision any danger that would come from it.'
Just as in the last month of the hot season, when all the crops have been gathered into the village, a cowherd would look after his cows: While resting under the shade of a tree or out in the open, he simply keeps himself mindful of 'those cows.' In the same way, I simply kept myself mindful of 'those mental qualities.'
Dvedhavitakka Sutta: Two Sorts of Thinking
more additional techniques, refer to:
Vitakkasanthana Sutta: The Relaxation of Thoughts
The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest
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