ABSTRACT
Subjects who had received the external concentration training were instructed to indicate to the experimenter each time they heard a statement in which the actor clients indicated that he or she had noticed authority acting. Training in one kind of concentration brought about significant gains in the other kind of concentration. This is consonant with the literature on Zen training. Two behaviors variously stressed by different counselors are the ability to have empathie understanding of the client and the ability to respond selectively to client statements during a counseling interview. A training procedure that appears to contain elements for facilitating training in these two techniques is one built around the training of Zen Buddhist monks. Required behaviors of counselors parallels the results of Zen training. The treatment for the experimental groups consisted of a total of 14 hours divided into 7 hours of training in meditative deep breathing and 7 hours of training in external concentration.
