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The most conspicuous difference between Buddhism and Western psychology is perhaps found in their respective treatments of the concept of ‘self.’ In Western psychology, the existence of a ‘self’ is generally affirmed; Buddhism denies the existence of an enduring ‘self’ and substitutes instead the concept of anātman, ‘no-self.’
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Walpola Rahula, What The Buddha Taught (New York: Grove Press, 1959), p. 51.
D. T. Suzuki, Erich Fromm, and Richard DeMartino, Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis (London: George AlIen & Unwin, 1960), p. 32.
The dialogue was subsequently published in Carl G. Jung and Shin’ichi Hisamatsu, ‘On the Unconscious, the Self and the Therapy,’ Psychologia, Vol. 11 (1968), pp. 25–32.
C. G. Jung, Aion: Contributions to the Symbolism of the Self, Collected Works, Volume 9.2 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1959), pp. 3, 5.
C. G. Jung, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Collected Works, Vol. 9.1 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1959), p. 43.
D. T. Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism, First Series (London, Rider, 1949; reprinted 1973), p. 190; adapted.
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Abe, M. (1997). The Self in Jung and Zen. In: Heine, S. (eds) Zen and Comparative Studies. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375994_11
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