Abstract

This is to suggest a counseling model from the viewpoint of Buddhism. According to Buddhism, the reality of an individual is constructed by himself. The process, by which a reality is constructed, is conceptualized as the construction process of an experience. In the process of construction, imaginations are intervened and a reality, which is actually an as-if reality, is created as the product. A counselor needs to establish a counseling environment, in which his clients' subjective reality is expressed as it really is. In such an environment he and his clients explore and understand what facts and imaginations are contributed to the construction of their own reality. His clients are helped to be emancipated from the shackles of their imagined reality by being aware that they have constructed their own reality by inputting their imaginations into it. Most of the problem-prone imaginations are related to the clients' wishes and fears, and these are related to their being. Therefore, their counselor helps them be aware that their wishes and fears are only their own fictions and do not have any substantial relation to their real being. In this process clients are helped to disidentify their wishes and fears from their being.