Buddhas Mom
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Twenty-five hundred years ago, the Lord Buddha declared attachment to be the cause of suffering. Fifty years ago, British psychiatrist John Bowlby came to the opposite conclusion. A lack of attachment, he observed, caused extreme suffering and sometimes even death in babies who were separated from their mothers. Educated seekers are warmly invited to participate in this scholarly meditation on these ‘two attachments’. Representing spirit and science these offer the basis of a neurobiology of spiritual awakening. This bridging becomes ever more vivid in the interpersonal biology underlying the biography of Siddhartha: the?baby, boy and man who becomes the Buddha.To unpack this, we revisit Siddhartha’s most impactful, personal attachment relationships—most notably his extended relationship with his stepmother, Prajapati. In addition to their attachment, multiple, layering of evidence enhances a modern lens on the human mind that gives birth to the Dharma, and what is sometimes called nonattachment. Vital fuel for this journey comes from evolutionary psychology, affective neuroscience, polyvagal theory and depth psychology. Insights into sufferingandhealingincreasewithcompellingstoriesfromtheauthor’sclinicalpractice. A nuanced, integral paradigm builds. This offers welcome relief from the reductionisms some call neuromania. In Buddha's Mom, love molecules and related findings provide scaffolding for a model of the psyche's substrate and ultimately for the full scope of human sentience.A deepening appreciation of the feminine principle turns out to be key. This enables, for example, the unique gifts of Socrates, Rumi, Milarepa, Dogen, Hongzhi and Jesus to shine anew. The coherence and elegance of this science-spirit paradigm melts away some of the mixed messages and paradoxes characteristic of Buddhism. This aspiring science of sentience achieves a pristine clarity in the mirror of Vajrayana and Tantric Buddhism. These spiritual
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