A Gift of Dharma for 12.29.09
by Danny Fisher
Today’s quote is from Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein.
A graduate of both Harvard College and the Harvard Medical School, he has been a practicing Buddhist “since his early twenties.” His main teacher have been Joseph Goldstein and Jack Kornfield.
A contributing editor to Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Dr. Epstein is also the author of such vital works as Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught, Going on Being: Life at the Crossroads of Buddhism and Psychotherapy, and Psychotherapy without the Self: A Buddhist Perspective.
He has a private practice in New York City.
Here’s the quote, from Thoughts without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective, pg. 19:
If aspects of the person remain undigested–cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated–they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.
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