{"id":2646,"date":"2015-05-20T11:10:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T03:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=2646"},"modified":"2015-06-02T21:53:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T13:53:11","slug":"the-life-narrative-of-self-transcendence-as-the-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=2646","title":{"rendered":"The Life-Narrative of Self-Transcendence as the Monks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tzung-bai Hsin<\/strong>
\nDepartment of Educational Psychology and Counseling\u00a0National Taiwan Normal University
\nShin-drew Lin<\/strong>
\nDepartment of\u00a0Guidance and Counseling\u00a0National Changhua University of Education<\/p>\n

The purpose of this study aims to understand the life narrative of self-transcendence as the monks. The researchers have interviewed two monks from different temples and have analyzed the data by the method of holistic-content perspective of narrative research. The researchers have written life stories and discussed the content and process of the self-transcendence. The findings and significances are as following:
\nThe monks have developed and accepted different aspects of self based on affluent life experiences. They open self-boundaries and give up self-persistence through meditating experiences. They interpret negative experiences as testing in adverse circumstances. The practice of self-benefit and other-benefit presents the independence and dependence of self. They focus on the Buddhist dharma practice and its applications in life. It is from those puzzles to the contemplation and from Buddhist dharma, they find the sanctuary and value of life. The process of self-transcendence includes both the self-actualization in space and self-improvement in time. Because of the deep faith to the dharma and the principle of cause and effect, they believe that the dharma has its essentiality and meaningfulness to life. It is this self-identity that gives the great vow and the deep faith as a monk in countless life that is carrying out the missions to liberate the sentient being, to act as a bodhisattva and to become a Buddha.
\nBased on the results of the study, the researchers provide concrete suggestions for counselors and related researchers on future studies.<\/p>\n

Keywords\uff1amonk, self-transcendence, life-narrative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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