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Buddhist Psychology Principles and Values Buddhism considers the self as an illusion, and a construct of the mind, and the ego as a hindrance to enlightenment. Mosig (2006) explains that Buddhism is based on the concept if Reification, or the process by which the mind creates a material object from a concept. When discussing the concept of stress, Buddhists consider stress as just a part of life. This is one of the Four Noble Truths, called Dukkha. Dukkha can be experienced as happiness or suffering but will eventually cause stress because there is difference between actual reality and the reality that humans believe exists. Another factor of existence is Anicca, or everything is interconnected and therefore cannot exist exactly the same twice. A third characteristic of existence is Anatta. or the concept that there are no separate entities. "Stress is the difference between what is and what humans think there is, created by our motivations, desires, needs, and expectations" (Tyson & Pongruengphant, 2007). Subject Matter Buddhism focuses on the ideas that nothing exists as a separate entity, everything is interconnected. Western psychology is very different than Buddhist psychology because the idea of the self is central to western psychology, and Buddhism rejects this idea. Mosig (2006) postulates that all things are composites or made up of parts and cannot exist without all of its parts. A person is composed of five groups of elements called skandhas. "The skandhas are form, feelings, perceptions, impulses, and consciousness" (Mosig, 2006). Research Methods Buddhists define coping as modulating the discrepancies in dukkha and its effects on a person's karma, or the behavior that influences their actions. Meditation can help increase good karma. "Observing the world with less bias, preference, discrimination, or interpretation provides meditators with a reference for how to change their conceptions to reduce the discrepancy" (Tyson & Pongruengphant, 2007). Mosig (2006) elaborates, "alleviation of the unnecessary suffering caused by the delusion of the separate self in human beings in general".

References: Tyson, P. D., & Pongruengphant, R. (2007). Buddhist and Western perspectives on suffering, stress, and coping. Journal of Religion and Health, 46(3), 351–357. Mosig, Y. D. (2006). Conceptions of the self in Western and Eastern psychology. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 26(1/2), 39–50.

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