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The Buddha as Healer - Buddhist teaching for therapists
Venerable Ajahn Brahm

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In a thoughtful and entertaining way Ven. Ajahn Brahm introduces some of the concepts of Buddhist teaching regarding therapy and how to help others as well as looking after oneself. By using simple metaphoric stories, quoting from the teaching of the Buddha as well as from ancient and contemporary Buddhist teachers complex concepts are explained. In this presentation, Ven. Ajahn Brahm addresses issues about individual therapy as well as couple therapy and the place of the therapist in both spaces. How to look at anxiety and depression form a Buddhist perspective. Mindfulness and kindness take center stage in this presentation.

Recorded at the Australian Association of Buddhist Counsellors and Psychotherapists AABCAP 1st annual conference
Saturday 20th October 2007, Sydney, Australia.
Visit AABCAP at www.buddhismandpsychotherapy.org

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	The Buddha as Healer- Buddhist teaching for therapists	Ajahn Brahm	31'04

Venerable Ajahn Brahm

Venerable Ajahn Brahm was born in London in 1951. He regarded himself as a Buddhist at the age of 17 through his reading of Buddhist books while still at school. His interest in Buddhism and meditation flourished while studying Theoretical Physics at Cambridge University. After completing his degree and teaching for a year, he travelled to Thailand to become a monk. He was ordained in Bangkok at the age of 23 by the Abbot of Wat Saket. Subsequently, he spent 9 years studying and training in the forest meditation tradition of the revered Venerable Ajahn Chah.

Ajahn Brahm was instrumental in the first ordination of women as fully-fledged Buddhist nuns, bhikkhunis, within the Theravada forest meditation tradition. The ordination was held at Bodhinyana Monastery (Perth), of which Ajahn Brahm is Abbot, on the 22nd of October 2009. A widely traveled speaker, Ajahn Brahm conducts meditation retreats frequently both in Australia and overseas. He is the author of ‘Mindfulness, Bliss and Beyond’ and ‘Opening the Door of Your Heart’.