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Ego, Disrupted. How Buddhist Wisdom Meets Western Therapy with Dr. Mark Epstein

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Meditation and the Buddha's Four Noble Truths

A lack of rigidity and allowance for so many, so many a things is what makes a therapist a therapist. The buddha's famous psychological teaching is the four noble truths. No matter how successful you are, no matter how much you've achieved, there's an aspect to life that's hard to face. We don't want to face old age, illness, death,. disappointment, separation, loss, illnessn to repeat myself a and so his whole though, the whole teaching is, how do you learn to face what we don't wants to face? And in tha, doing that, allowing it to surface, allow it to come into awareness, is liberating.

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