Karma: Psychological Causality within the Context of Dependent Origination
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This lecture reviews the causal relationship between past trauma, current perceptions and actions, and future subjective experience through an interdisciplinary lens of Buddhist psychology, trauma research and neuroscience. This theory offers a framework for understanding the experience of clients in clinical context as well as empowering them to intervene in their personal process.
Miles Neale, PsyD, is among the leading voices of the current generation of Buddhist teachers and a forerunner in the emerging field of contemplative psychotherapy. He is Assistant Director of Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science where he develops and teaches programs based on Indo-Tibetan Buddhism, meditation, neuroscience, and psychotherapy. Dr. Neale is also Buddhist psychotherapist in private practice where he sees meditators, yogis and those interested in well-being and spiritual development without spiritual bypassing and Instructor of Psychology at Weill Cornell Medical Center where he where he teaches and researches the clinical applications and health benefits of meditation.