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Going On Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change - A Positive Psychology for the West
Written by Mark Epstein
Narrated by Mark Epstein
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Start Listening- Publisher:
- Macmillan Audio
- Released:
- Mar 1, 2003
- ISBN:
- 9781593970604
- Format:
- Audiobook (abridged)
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Before Mark Epstein became a medical student at Harvard and began training as a psychiatrist, he immersed himself in Buddhism through experiences with such influential Buddhist teachers as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield. The positive outlook of Buddhism and the meditative principle of living in the moment came to influence his study and practice of psychotherapy profoundly.
Going on Being is Epstein's memoir of his early years as a student of Buddhism and of how Buddhism shaped his approach to therapy, as well as a practical guide to how a Buddhist understanding of psychological problems makes change for the better possible.
A Macmillan Audio production.
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Going On Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change - A Positive Psychology for the West
Written by Mark Epstein
Narrated by Mark Epstein
Description
Before Mark Epstein became a medical student at Harvard and began training as a psychiatrist, he immersed himself in Buddhism through experiences with such influential Buddhist teachers as Ram Dass, Joseph Goldstein, and Jack Kornfield. The positive outlook of Buddhism and the meditative principle of living in the moment came to influence his study and practice of psychotherapy profoundly.
Going on Being is Epstein's memoir of his early years as a student of Buddhism and of how Buddhism shaped his approach to therapy, as well as a practical guide to how a Buddhist understanding of psychological problems makes change for the better possible.
A Macmillan Audio production.
- Publisher:
- Macmillan Audio
- Released:
- Mar 1, 2003
- ISBN:
- 9781593970604
- Format:
- Audiobook (abridged)
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Epstein appears to practice some combination of Zen Buddhism and mindfulness meditation. He tells about his early forays into Buddhist meditation and the mentors who helped him to understand his practice.
He also talks about the theory of going on being, and how this relates to his view that psychotherapy needn’t necessarily focus only on fixing people’s problems, either by eliminating them or by “going deeper into” them. Sometimes it is enough just to understand the problem and to know that you can live with it.