Deconstructing Yourself

In this special episode, Culadasa talks about the domains of meditation and psychotherapy, where their areas of effectiveness overlap and where they don’t. He also shares a powerful personal story of his own emotional processing work after awakening—why it was needed and how it helped.Culadasa has been practicing Buddhist meditation for over four decades, and is the director of Dharma Treasure Buddhist Sangha, where he teaches meditation and Buddhism from a modern, progressive scientific perspective. His groundbreaking book, The Mind Illuminated is a modern road map to Buddhist meditation for a Western audience which combines age-old wisdom teachings of the Buddha with the latest research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.Dharma Treasure website: https://dharmatreasure.org/Dr. Douglas Tataryn’s website: The Bio-emotive FrameworkShow Notes0:25 – Introduction2:54 – Michael opens up the intended direction of this show, what meditation can improve and heal and what psychology can improve and heal, where th