Ego, Disrupted. How Buddhist Wisdom Meets Western Therapy with Dr. Mark Epstein
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Psychotherapy and Buddhist thought have long been considered separate worlds - psychotherapy is about optimizing the mind and minimizing the impact of emotional trauma, while Buddhist practice emphasizes letting go of control.
The two approaches are not mutually exclusive.
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Mark Epstein, psychotherapist and bestselling author, to discuss the intersection of Eastern and Western thought.
We discuss the critical importance to “getting over yourself,” the power of mindfulness coupled with traditional psychotherapy, and how performance-minded people can achieve more by letting go.
If you’d like to learn more about Dr. Epstein and his work, go to http://markepsteinmd.com/.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, what's up? This is Chase Jarvis. Welcome to an episode of the Chase Travis |
| 0:08.0 | Live show here on Creative Live. This is the show where I sit down with the world's most |
| 0:12.1 | incredible humans. I unpack their brain with the goal of helping you live your dreams. |
| 0:15.9 | And today's guest is Dr. Mark Epstein. Dr. Epstein is a psychiatrist and private practice in New York City |
| 0:22.4 | and the author of a number of books that help us understand and reconcile Eastern wisdom |
| 0:28.1 | with Western medicine and Western science generally. This is an incredible conversation. |
| 0:33.3 | We talk about cultivating a healthy relationship with our ego, why ego is both good and bad, |
| 0:39.4 | how it's our, are the thing that keeps us alive and how it has biological functions, |
| 0:43.9 | but it also undermines so much of what we want to do in this life that we have, this one precious life. |
| 0:50.7 | In this episode, we talk about the difference between doing, which Western culture is obsessed |
| 0:56.3 | with and being. |
| 0:57.6 | How does one be content? |
| 1:00.8 | Whether or not we're succeeding, whether or not we're being recognized for our pursuits |
| 1:05.8 | on a day-to-day business, there is more to life than that. |
| 1:09.0 | And importantly, we talk about how meditation and therapy, the combination of those two things specifically, can train the mind to deal with the unpredictable world that we all live in. |
| 1:19.3 | This is a super powerful episode. |
| 1:21.5 | I'm very excited about both the tradition that Mark come from and the work that he's done in the Western world to unite this in |
| 1:27.7 | what I think is a super profound way. Enjoy this episode. Yours truly with Dr. Mark Epstein. |
| 1:33.8 | This episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show is brought to you by Creative Live. Creative Live is |
| 1:39.1 | the world's largest and best platform for creative and entrepreneurial education. |
| 1:43.7 | Creators and entrepreneurs, hobbyists to full-time professionals, |
| 1:47.1 | they've all leveled up with their careers and their lives |
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