Our ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better, smarter, and more in control, is one affliction we all share. And while our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, it sabotages the very goals it sets to achieve. In Advice Not Given, renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein reveals how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two traditions that developed in entirely different times and places and, until recently, had nothing to do with each other, both identify the ego as the limiting factor in our well-being, and both come to the same conclusion: When we give the ego free reign, we suffer; but when it learns to let go, we are free.
Advice not Given, Mark Epstein, Penguin Press, Hardcover, 2018, 204 Pages, $26.00
Mark Epstein, M.D., has a private practice in New York City and has been an instructor at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, he is a consulting editor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review.
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Introduction
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1. Right View
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2. Right Motivation
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3.Right Speech
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4. Right Action
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5. Right Livehood
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6. Right Effort
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7. Right Mindfulness
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8.Right Concentration
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Epilogue
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Acknowledgments
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Notes
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Index
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