Therapy Was Never Secular

Healing, as defined in typical clinical frameworks, often looks like productivity and compliance.

There’s a joke that goes, “What’s the difference between a Buddhist and a non-Buddhist?” The answer: “Only the non-Buddhist sees the difference.”

In his writing on the Heart Sutra—a fundamental text on emptiness and wisdom that serves as the foundation of many branches of Buddhism—Thich Nhat Hanh explains the idea of interbeing. Declaring all things empty, he teaches, does not mean that there is no meaning in anything, but rather that phenomena we encounter in the world are empty of somethin