Welcome!
Hello PT bloggers! I'm Joseph Bobrow, a Zen master, psychologist-psychoanalyst, and founder of Deep Streams Institute and the Coming Home Project. I want to welcome you to our new blog, where we will...
View Article"Partners in LIberation?"
I've found that liberation simultaneously unfolds in practice on two interconnected tracks, represented in this blog by psychotherapy and Zen. Although they contain elements of each other and address...
View ArticleIn and Out of Alignment
In the early days of the Maui Zendo, after sesshin, we would often pile into the zendo van and drive down to Baldwin Beach to swim, hang out, and eat junk food. Aitken Roshi would usually accompany...
View ArticlePARTNERS in Liberation
Our lively interlocutor wrote:"The manicured rock garden of Zen meets the tangled garden of psychotherapy? Do you enjoy gardening?"read more
View ArticleWaking up
What is the "gold"that Zen brings to the alchemy with psychotherapy? Psychodynamic psychotherapists and psychoanalysts tend to privilege unconscious experience, internal and relational, and as a result...
View ArticleSelf and No-Self
What is self? What is no-self? Psychotherapy grows the self's capacities; Zen helps us see through self-delusion of separateness. How do YOU see it??read more
View ArticleZen and the Human Heart
Someone asked me the other day if my Zen practice helps me with personal relationships. I chuckled. They persisted, "Surely it must somehow, all the years of practice, and guiding Zen students, no?" I...
View ArticleMoment to Moment
When I began training in Zen, the prime motivation of most of us was existential. We wanted to resolve burning questions such as Who am I? What is the mind? What is my essential nature? What is the...
View ArticleAwakening to Delusion
Why do we suffer? From a Buddhist perspective, it is due to greed, hatred and delusion, the three poisons. These create suffering, these are our suffering. But we need to add a word to the Buddhist...
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