Buddhist Mere-Consciousness Theory And Modern Psychology

The Buddhist mere-consciousness theory is also a psychology. Among The Buddhist mere-consciousness theory and modern psychology have many synonymous the categories. There are a lot of profound things that you can not find out in modern psychology but in The Buddhist mere-consciousness theory, you can. It is very meaningful to comparing the Buddhist psychological cognition and modern psychological cognition.This topic mainly introduces to the Buddhist mere-consciousness theory as well as makes comparison it to the modern psychologist, for example: The felling, consciousness that modern psychology say, while the Buddhist mere-consciousness theory calls as direct perception and inference perception, but the consciousness is basic on the feel to active. Concerning modern psychology of the personality theories structure, under the Buddhist mere-consciousness theory view the personality can be divided into the actuality ego, ideal ego and awaking ego. These three egoses interact and become the person's spiritual life phenomenon.Moreover, from The Buddhist mere-consciousness theory's eight consciousness's structures you can see out three layer structures that psychoanalysis says. Freud divided psychological structures into consciousness, pre-consciousness and unconsciousness;C. Jung mentioned consciousness, individual- consciousness, collectivity-consciousness that are the same the Buddhist mere-consciousness theory called consciousness, manas, the storehouse consciousness. Beside of the Buddhist mere-consciousness theory also has five consciousnesses as eye consciousness ,ear consciousness ,nose consciousness, tongue consciousness, body consciousness . From here we can see three kinds of consciousness of the psychoanalysis with three kinds of consciousness of the Buddhist mere-consciousness theory is very close and resemnle.This thesis is mainly basic on [Asanga and Vasubandhu "the Treatise in Thirty Verses on Mere-Consciousness" ] in Chinese and in English by Swati Ganguly, in order to discuss the Buddhist mere-consciousness theory content and thought.