What is the unconscious and do you really have one? Jungian psychology and the Yogācāra school of Buddhism both investigated the depths of the human psyche. Both proposed the existence of a hidden layer beneath our everyday conscious mind. In the way they understood this hidden (unconscious) mind, Jung and the Buddhists agreed on some essential points, but not on all. Both the similarities of their views and their differences give us fascinating insights into the functioning of our own psyches.

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📚 Recommended Reading

▶ Ālayavijñāna from a Practical Point of View (Nobuyoshi Yamabe)
▶ Subliminal Mind in Analytical Psychology and Yogacara Buddhism (Jinkeon Moon)
▶ Buddhist theory of Unconscious Mind (ālaya-vijñāna) (William S. Waldron)
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▶ Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Carl Jung)
▶ What the Buddha Taught (Walpola Rahula Thero)
▶ The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching (Thich Nhat Hanh)
▶ Foundations of Buddhism (Rupert Gethin)

Free access to Early Buddhist scripture: https://www.accesstoinsight.org/

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📺 Recommended viewing

▶ The Buddha's Four Noble Truths: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHWIQzd8bVw&t=171s&ab_channel=SEEKERTOSEEKER
▶ Jung's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AMu-G51yTY&t=39s&ab_channel=KidMillions
▶ Jung documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udKqfxjj_7Q&t=1147s&ab_channel=jungianLaura
▶The best YouTube channel devoted to Jung's psychology: @Eternalised

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🎶 Music used

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⌛ Timestamps

00:00 Introduction
01:14 The Buddha's model of consciousness
06:13 Necessity for the unconscious
10:33 Yogācāra model of the mind
13:09 Unconscious compensation
15:54 Jung's collective unconscious
18:20 The Mahāyāna vow
19:51 Conclusion


*Bats, contrary to what I say in the video, DO have sense organs for sight! My apologies for spreading this common bat blindness myth ... 🦇👀

Read the video script here: https://www.seekertoseeker.com/carl-jung-buddhism-on-the-unconscious/