If Buddhism is to fully take root in the Western psyche, in
my view, it needs to become more savvy about the dynamics of the Western psyche,
which is rather different from the Asian psyche. We need a larger perspective that can
recognize and include two different tracks of human development— which we might
call growing up and waking up, healing and awakening, or becoming a genuine human
person and going beyond the person altogether. We are not just humans learning to
become buddhas, but also buddhas waking up in human form, learning to become fully
human. And these two tracks of development can mutually enrich each other.