Jinji Willingham Psychotherapy

10/05/2026

For all the reasons.

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10/04/2026

In Bangkok, three years ago, presenting at the INEB Conference on Buddhist Counseling, Trauma, & Su***de Prevention, a program we organized through the Institute for Buddhist Counseling & Chaplaincy. After Bangkok, we conducted a three-day retreat at the Wongsanit Ashram in Central Thailand. A year and a half last, two of my IBCC colleague and I developed and began our online training for South/Southeast Asian caregivers, and we're currently planning our 3rd Cohort. Very grateful for the organizations that support this work.

09/27/2026

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“Simply let the mind recognize itself, like cutting through the thinking. That is called the view of Trekchö, the 'thorough cut.' It's thorough in the same way that a piece of string is cut entirely through into two pieces that are completely disconnected. This emptiness is not something we imagine by meditating; it is naturally and originally so. There is no need to merely think it is empty. Simply remain, without imagining or thinking anything. The moment you think, "Now it is empty," a thought has already snuck in. This is unnecessary. This continual process of forming concepts and being attached is itself the root of samsara. You don't have to think, "This is nice!" or "This is not right!"
Be free from even a hair-tip of conceptual thought. This is called recognizing present wakefulness.”

Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche – ‘As It Is’ Vol I – Chapter III: Buddha Nowhere Else – pp 55-6, Rangjung Yeshe Publications

09/27/2026

This has already been well established for decades by mental health professionals who work from a Buddhist perspective. There is nothing new about this: sometimes meditation and mindfulness are contraindicated depending on someone’s psycho-emotional state, for example for those who are seriously depressed or 10 towards dissociation. Moreover, there IS no cure-all. Seeking a “cure” is the antithesis of Buddhist teachings and contemporary Buddhist psychology. In fact, the same view has been taught for centuries : the ancient teachings and intelligent contemporary buddhist teachers remind us that the greatest suffering is caused by avoiding suffering, and that “the way out is in” — that’s a direct quote from Thich Nhat Hanh, and an original calligraphy of his quote hangs prominently in my office, and forms the foundation of my clinical approach. Chögyam Trunga and Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche taught this as well.