An edition of Going on Being (2001)

Going on being

life at the crossroads of Buddhism and therapy

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An edition of Going on Being (2001)

Going on being

life at the crossroads of Buddhism and therapy

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  • 4 Want to read
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The bestselling author of Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart combines a memoir of his own journey as a student of Buddhism and psychology with a powerful message about how cultivating true self-awareness and adopting a Buddhist understanding of change can free the mind."Meditation was the vehicle that opened me up to myself, but psychotherapy, in the right hands, has similar potential. It was actually through my own therapy and my own studies of Western psychoanalytic thought that I began to understand what meditation made possible. As compelling as the language of Buddhism was for me, I needed to figure things out in Western concepts as well. Psychotherapy came after meditation in my life, but it reinforced what meditation had shown me."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. It is also a practical guide to how a Buddhist understanding of psychological problems makes change for the better possible.In psychotherapy, Epstein discovered a vital interpersonal parallel to meditation, but he also recognized Western psychology's tendency to focus on problems, either by attempting to eliminate them or by going into them more deeply, and how this too often results in a frustrating "paralysis of analysis." Buddhism opened his eyes to another way of change. Drawing on his own life and stories of his patients, he illuminates the concept of "going on being," the capacity we all have to live in a fully aware and creative state unimpeded by constraints or expectations.By chronicling how Buddhism and psychotherapy shaped his own growth, Mark Epstein has written an intimate chronicle of the evolution of spirit and psyche, and a highly inviting guide for anyone seeking a new path and a new outlook on life.From the Hardcover edition.

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Going on being: life at the crossroads of Buddhism and therapy
2009, Wisdom Publications
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Going on Being
February 13, 2003, Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Going on Being
March 2002, Continuum International Publishing Group
Paperback in English
Cover of: Going On Being
Going On Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change
February 12, 2002, Broadway
Paperback in English
Cover of: Going on Being
Going on Being: Buddhism and the Way of Change
March 27, 2001, Broadway
Hardcover in English - 1st ed edition
Cover of: Going on being
Going on being: Buddhism and the way of change : a positive psychology for the West
2001, Broadway Books
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: Going on Being
Going on Being
2001, Broadway Books
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Edition Notes

Previously published: New York : Broadway Books, c2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Boston

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Dewey Decimal Class
294.3/42
Library of Congress
BQ4570.P76 E664 2009, BQ4570.P76 E664 2008, BQ4570.P76E664 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22543475M
ISBN 10
0861715691
LCCN
2008041530
Library Thing
8956840
Goodreads
6314077

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"There is a story that has kept popping up in my work over the years that embodies much of what I have learned about how people change."

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