in the core Buddhist teachings known as the Paticha Samapata,

and that's where the Buddha outlines how suffering is caused

in most people's lives, stress and suffering.

And this idea is called Nama Rupa.

It's never really terrifically defined or certainly it's difficult to

translate what it means.

It's kind of actually you can define it

as each individual's core psychological makeup, which exists from a very early age of life. In the chain the Buddha says right along with the very

introduction of consciousness in human life there is this development of our core psycho biological individual makeup.

And interestingly enough, this idea that something happens very very early in life that has far reaching

implications into our adult lives and especially our behaviors and how we experience stress in our life.

It's of course become 2,500 years later, extremely well documented in virtually the entire world of psychology.

It actually is an idea that has been present through much of human culture at different times.

Around 1800 Wordsworth wrote a poem where he said a child is the father of the man and he goes on in that

poem to state that the things in life that bring us joy and emotional responses is set in our childhood.

Of course in the 100 years since Freud and Jung this should really not be mind-blowing ideas.

Certainly, Freud posited the idea

that there is this series of early psychosexual stages that determine how later on in life our

regression and neurosis originates.

Freud posited that there's stages like the oral,

anal, genital stage, and if you get stuck in one, then you tend to regress back to that in adult life and

he also had the idea that there's this crucial moment of the edible drama which revolves around the idea that the one

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