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Spontaneity and Naturalness

Psychology Department, Box 320, University of Papua, Waigani, Papua, New Guinea.

This article explores the limiting and liberating aspects of spontaneity and naturalness. Although both are depicted as desirable ends, this article emphasizes the trap in pursuing these goals. Both spontaneity and naturalness are identified in Taoist and Buddhist ways as ideal qualities that are characterized by a state of egolessness. Seeking after spontaneity and naturalness is seen to be a direct contradiction of these qualities. Instead, a kind of letting go is advocated, which is achieved by altering the usual goal-directed, striving stance.

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Vol. 28, No. 1, 97-107 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/0022167888281005


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