ABSTRACT
The man all have come to call the Buddha, which means the "Awakened One", taught that both the causes of people suffering and the path to freedom from that suffering lie within themselves. The approach to psychotherapy known as Contemplative Psychotherapy developed and taught at the Naropa University in Boulder, joins together the teachings of Buddhism and the Western tradition of psychotherapy. The Contemplative Psychotherapy, which is based on Buddhist teachings, ways to nurture the seeds of sanity which may be found in even the most confused states of mind. It draws on other Buddhist teachings in addition to those on mindfulness, as explores in this chapter. One of the earliest discourses given by the Buddha presented what are known as the four noble truths. The four noble truths are: the truth of suffering, the truth of the origin of suffering, the truth of the cessation of suffering, and the truth of the path.
