Haribol Posted Saturday at 01:06 PM Came across this wonderful Substack. I’ll quote the intro, and link the article below, in case it caught your interest Quote At the end of psychoanalyst Carl Jung’s commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower, we encounter several key ideas for our personal transformation and also for the transformation of our history. Carl Jung speaks of how we Westerners can make use of and integrate the best of Eastern spiritual wisdom, transforming ourselves psychologically and possibly also the history of humanity. Let us pay special attention. Jung says: “In the Pauline symbol of Christ, the highest religious experience of West and East touch each other. Christ, the hero laden with suffering, and the Golden Flower, which opens in the purple hall of the jade city: what an opposition, what an unimaginable difference, what a historical abyss! A problem suited to be the masterpiece of a psychologist of the future.” https://jungianalchemist.substack.com/p/how-the-golden-flower-and-christ?r=5biq0e&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay&triedRedirect=true Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wordless Posted Saturday at 02:38 PM I think the comparison the article makes would have worked better in a Buddhist context where the focus is predominantly on the mind. Daoist cultivation also has a big focus on Ming (body/vitality) which makes the comparison kind of weak, even if the end result is comparable, the path to get there is extremely different. Comparing end results rather than actual practice seems unwise. I think the real take away from the article from an average Christians POV is Buddhist meditations may help their mind reach closer proximity to that of Christ. Which again seems to ignore something rather major..... Christian mysticism exists and already includes meditative and contemplative practices... Which makes it seem the author just found 2 comparable end results and wanted to find unifying practices, lacking the understanding of really either tradition. The conclusion of the article again highlights the comparability of the 2 end results, while instead it's real conclusion should just have been something along the lines of "Christians could probably benefit from developing a daily meditative practice". Anyway, thanks for the share @Haribol, it at least gave a slight insight into Jungian thought. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
