Open to Desire The Truth about What the Buddha Taught

Name: Open to Desire The Truth about What the Buddha Taught
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ISBN: 9781592401857

ISBN-10: 1592401856

ISBN-13: 9781592401857

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Authors: Mark Epstein

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Helping readers to reconcile their conflicting thoughts about desire from both a Buddhist and a psychological point of view, Mark Epsteins well-received book now arrives in trade paperback. A masterpiece. . . . It teaches us how not to fear and repress, but to rechannel and harness the most powerful energies of life toward freedom and bliss. ROBERT THURMAN It is common in both Buddhism and Freudian psychoanalysis to treat desire as if it is the root of all suffering and problems, but psychiatrist Mark Epstein believes this to be a grave misunderstanding. In his controversial defense of desire, he makes clear that it is the key to deepening intimacy with ourselves, each other, and our…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.03" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Mark Epstein, M.D., is also the author of "Thoughts Without a Thinker: Psychotherapy from a Buddhist Perspective". A psychiatrist & consulting editor to "Tricycle: The Buddhist Review", he lives in New York City.



Introduction: The Baby and the Bathwater



For Want of Desire



Ramayana



The Left-Handed Path



Discontent



Clinging



The Flavor of Separation



The Backward Glance



Renunciation



The End of Clinging



From Object to Subject



A Facilitating Environment



The Fruit



A Path for Desire



Advice



Jumping In


Endnotes


References


Index