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27/11/2024

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31/10/2024

BUDDHANALYSIS… What if the Buddha was you psychoanalyst? Jason Ross`and Fiona Brittion Weekend ~ November 8 – 10   Standard rate: R2630 – R3090 (en-suite); Generous Rate: R3190 – R3730 … Continue reading "Buddhanalysis"

31/10/2024

25 retreatants following me into the abyss of our perpetual longing "In the spirit of Camus (1975), we cry out to the universe
but there is no reply. We are all and seemingly always, in a state of longing for something.
This perpetual state of longing seems to define us. As a phrase often attributed to the German
Romantics illustrates, “Tell me what you long for and I will tell you who you are”. We seem
to be nothing but incomplete bundles of longing, longing for an impossible completion. There
is no evidence that this “completion” has ever been found. It not only exists in religious
fantasy, but in our everyday craving. In fact, philosophers like Peter Rollins (2020) suggest
that the worst thing that can happen to us is to get what we want. Getting what we want only
leads to “abject horror”, as we realise it doesn’t leave us with the sense of completion we had
been fantasising about all along; it only reaffirms our sense of lack. We live in a world between
who we are and who we would like to be; between what we have and what we would like to
have. We essentially live in this gap, and we live in a world that promises that you can get rid
of that “gap”. The “sacred and secular” promise that you can be who you want to be and get
what you want to get. He describes achieving your dreams as an “abject horror” because we
then realise that the “gap” is never filled through the fulfilment of your dreams. Mark Epstein
(2006) would propose that the only option available to us is to fully enter into our own longing:
love is not some sense of completion we reach; the longing for love is the experience of “love”
itself. In our anxious relationship to our own existence, Epstein considers desire as the other
side of anxiety. Love and desire flow from our ceaseless longing." An extract from my book On Being No-Thing-Ness.

Join our next retreat 8-10 November 2024
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20/10/2024

Join Dr Jason Ross:

Dates: Friday 25 October 2024 - Monday 28 October 2024

Cost: 3 days accommodation + R350 surcharge

Through a merging of concepts from Existential Psychoanalysis and Secular Buddhism, this retreat explores Buddhism as a form of therapeutic living. The retreat will take us from the concept of inherent “lack” (sunyata), through “longing” (“tanha”), to “love” (metta). Along this journey, we will consider the implications of the Buddhist notion of “non-self” (anatta) for the practice of psychotherapy and its practical application to our everyday lives.

This retreat involves philosophical discussion, therapeutic engagement, a variety of sitting practices, walking meditation, basic yoga (no experience needed), written reflection and group discussion. It is an ideal retreat for those interested in a practical, therapeutic and atheist (non-soteriological) approach to Buddhism.

Find out more about this retreat: https://www.brcixopo.co.za/eventdetail/1182/15/buddhanalysis-what-if-buddha-was-your-psychoanalyst.html

Please email to book: bookings@brcixopo.co.za

15/10/2024

If Buddha Was Your Psychotherapist?

by The Philosophical Practice of Jason Ross

As we reflect on the past months, we are filled with immense gratitude for the support and kindness that you have all shown during a particularly challenging time for us.

14/09/2024

Here is a look at The Philosophical Practice of Jason Ross's latest work in merging Buddhism and Psychoanalysis.

I was deeply privileged to have the opportunity to present my ideas for Professor Julie Reshe on her Patreon platform. Her work introduces “negative psychoanalysis” as an alternative to the therapy provided by conventional psychology and psychoanalysis. Her work is more of a philosophical shift ...