BUDDHA: UNA PSICOLOGÍA DEL DESEO, UNA EPISTEMOLOGÍA DE LA ILUSIÓN - BUDDHA: A PSYCHOLOGY OF DESIRE, AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF ILLUSION

• Main Author: YIDY PÁEZ CASADIEGOS
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Simón Bolívar 2010-06-01
• Series: Psicogente
• Subjects: Psychology of desire; The illusion epistemology; Buddha; Psicología del deseo; Epistemología de la ilusión
• Online Access: http://www.unisimonbolivar.edu.co/rdigital/psicogente/index.php/psicogente/article/viewFile/220/209

Overall, Buddha’s message is focused, argumentatively, in its four noble truths. In a critical reading and hermeneutics, the words of the great heresy of Hinduism become signifiers of a theory of perception that underlies the psychology of desire and an epistemology of illusion, that is, a deep, meta-psychological meaning which speaks of the accession of a self to its objects (internal or external), and the resulting distortion of the image or content originating from a desire to stay in the self and its perceptions. Some basic ideas about Buddha and his teachings will be presented, beginning with the conditions of his birth and his existential and spiritual journey. Some light will be shed on some considerations on the Four Noble Truths and ultimately psycho-epistemological aspects of the Buddhist system, particularly the writings of dhamma as Pãli Canon, which are the oldest source.