What the Buddha Felt: A Buddhist Psychiatrist Points the Way to Uncommon Happiness
About this book
Dr Mark Epstein believes that people need tools to work with difficult emotions, and that the intersection of psychotherapy and Buddhism is the place to look for effective results. Psychotherapy, he says, has often shied away from addressing spiritual issues, while Buddhism is sometimes misperceived as requiring an emotionless approach. When you combine the basic principals that have led to psychotherapy's success in tackling emotonal issues with the Buddhist practice of meditation as a way to integrate emotions rather than repress them, emotional issues no longer act as a stumbling block to spiritual progress. In this program, Epstein adeptly teaches how to merge these two tools, inspiring listeners with practical exercises and stories from both his clinical and Buddhist meditation practices.