The Guide to Buddhist Counseling Quotes

“The profession of counseling is challenging work, so each Buddhist counselor should start mindfully and care compassionately for themselves in order to foster and radiate this power to clients.”
― Kin Cheung Lee, The Guide to Buddhist Counseling

“Through gradual and repetitive training to contemplate the three characteristics of existence—namely, suffering, impermanence, and non-self—the mind will progressively develop qualities and skills to reduce suffering.”
― Kin Cheung Lee, The Guide to Buddhist Counseling

“The short answer is that the Buddhist theory of non-self does not refer to the absence of self. Instead, it merely describes the mind’s inclination to attribute to neutral phenomena a fantasized concrete identity.”
― Kin Cheung Lee, The Guide to Buddhist Counseling

“Another way to define reality in Buddhism is “things as they are.” While it sounds abstract, most mundane people, like you and me, tend to distort or fabricate reality to satisfy our egoistic needs. This unacceptance of reality will eventually lead to suffering, while the way out of suffering is to see and accept reality, regardless of how undesirable it may be.”
― Kin Cheung Lee, The Guide to Buddhist Counseling