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10% Happier with Dan Harris
Dan Harris talks about "Thoughts Without a Thinker" by Dr. Mark Epstein, a psychiatrist based in New York City. He found Epstein's work connecting Buddhism and modern psychology helpful, and reached out to Epstein to seek his guidance and mentorship.
and I started to realize that this idea of this monkey mind that we all have was not an Eckhart toley trademarked inside it it really dates all the way back to the Buddha and Epstein has written these...
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Dan Harris talks about "Thoughts Without a Thinker" by Dr. Mark Epstein, a psychiatrist based in New York City. He found Epstein's work connecting Buddhism and modern psychology helpful, and reached out to Epstein to seek his guidance and mentorship.
and I started to realize that this idea of this monkey mind that we all have was not an Eckhart toley trademarked inside it it really dates all the way back to the Buddha and Epstein has written these beautiful books about the overlap between Buddhism or the Dharma and modern psychology
and I started reading those books and then I called them up and begged him to be my friend and there's like at Tuesdays with Mori type vibe with me and mark throughout the book and he's explaining the Dharma to me as I'm trying to put it into action in a busy modern skeptical life.
So answer your question about meditation which I keep not doing meditation itself is a key part of how one manages the ego or the voice in the head the inner chaos and cacophony and it's I thought it was must be some esoteric practice that involved joining a group or believing in special things but it really is very simple and has been secularized in the form of mindfulness based stress.