The Importance of Mindfulness in Meditation

Buddhist philosophy says we are the product of causes and conditions. How does somebody a practitioner of Buddhism kind of begin to pull apart these layers to understand themselves or their environment or where they come from more I mean this is something we think about happening in psychotherapy a lot but where do you see this in Buddhism too? Well that's the nature of the meditative practice so Mark Epstein always said that he said therapy is meditating out loud.