[SantaClaus]

If you wish to understand paticcasamuppada as the Buddha taught it, go to Phra P. A Payutto's analysis at http://www.buddhanet.net/cmdsg/coarise5.htm

Thank you very much. I will do so and am very interested in this.

No I do not know anything of Chogyam Trungpa's life. The book was recommended to me by a Sangha member of the temple I visit, Kagyu lineage, when this person heard I was interested in Buddhist psychology. Someone else commented briefly that he had a controversial life and some really enjoy his view and others feel he has transgressed the boundaries ... they gave me no examples though and just ended there. At the time I felt it was best not to be inquisitive and left it.

Reply to Kaarine Alejandra - thank you for this information and the links. I will enjoy reading them in preparation for the experience however know it will be as it is and individual to what ever occurs for me so no real preparation can occur. What you write about in terms of silence sounds wonderful and I am very much looking forward to it, I love peace and silence and enjoy being up at night as there is more of this presence around then.

Meditation is such a simple and effective method that can help us to make sense of our own personal psychology through enhanced observation and reflection. That the Buddhist teachers have also studied similarities among people and can comment on the commonalities of the mind and it's tendencies I think is also of great benefit to our learning about the mind and can raise awareness that then offers an opportunity to observe these things operating if not noticed before. I am interested in practitioners here sharing whether these commonalities as written, once shared by these meditation masters, are recognised in their own practice, and what they are learning about the nature of mind in general and how this relates to psychology within their meditaton / mindfulness practice. Feel free to share these not in relation to the writings as well, if they do not activate specific comment for you.