Dr. Mark Epstein On: How To Transform Your Neuroses Into "Little Shmoos"
10% Happier with Dan Harris
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4.6 • 12.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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A Buddhist psychiatrist (and one of the key players in Dan's meditation career) talks about the overlap between Freud and the dharma.
Mark Epstein M.D., is a psychiatrist in private practice in New York City, is the author of a number of books about the interface of Buddhism and psychotherapy, including Thoughts without a Thinker, Going to Pieces without Falling Apart, Going on Being, Open to Desire, Psychotherapy without the Self, The Trauma of Everyday Life and Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself. His latest work, The Zen of Therapy: Uncovering a Hidden Kindness in Life, was published in 2022 by Penguin Press. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard University. He has been a student of vipassana meditation since 1974.
In this episode we talk about:
- The insubstantial nature of thoughts
- Staying present through anything without clinging or condemning.
- Turning down the ego and focusing on others
- How you transform your neuroses from monsters to little shmoos.
- And whether 10% is the right number?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Dan here before we start the show I want to tell you about a live recording of this |
| 0:04.6 | podcast that we're doing in New York City on March 28th I will be interviewing two |
| 0:10.6 | frequent flyers from this show the legendary meditation teacher |
| 0:13.8 | Joseph Goldstein who will be just coming off a three-month solo silent |
| 0:17.7 | meditation retreat and Dr Mark Epstein a Buddhist therapist and best-selling author. |
| 0:23.6 | The event will actually be a celebration of the 10th anniversary of my first book, 10% happier, |
| 0:28.4 | and a percentage of the proceeds will go to the New York Insight Meditation Center. |
| 0:32.8 | Come early if you want for a VIP guided meditation |
| 0:35.8 | and Q&A with me. |
| 0:37.8 | Thanks to our friends over at audible |
| 0:39.4 | for sponsoring this show and the event. |
| 0:41.8 | Tickets on sale right now at symphony space.org. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hello everybody how we doing we are doing we are diving into the deep end today |
| 1:09.7 | with Dr Mark Epstein one of the most important people in my own meditation career. |
| 1:15.2 | Before we dive in with Mark, let me tell you a little story. |
| 1:18.9 | I first got turned on to Mark Epstein through my wife, Bianca, who gave me one of Mark's books back in 2009, |
| 1:26.1 | it might have been 2008, whatever the date this happened during a period of time when I was first |
| 1:31.1 | getting interested in the self-help world for lack of a better term. |
| 1:35.8 | I had been reading books by people like Ekartoli and Depak Chobra. |
| 1:39.7 | I'd even hung out with both of those guys. |
| 1:42.4 | I found them compelling, especially |
| 1:44.1 | their focus on how we all have a voice in our heads, an inner narrator, an ego |
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