Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness - Tapa dura

A Buddhist psychiatrist challenges the preoccupation of Western psychology with the ego and its satisfaction, showing readers how to attain true happiness through Buddhist spirituality and through favoring being over doing. $50,000 ad/promo.

guide to self-acceptance and discovery that offers a Buddhist perspective on wholeness within the framework of a Western understanding of self.

For decades, Western psychology has promised fulfillment through building and strengthening the ego.  We are taught that the ideal is a strong, individuated self, constructed and reinforced over a lifetime.  But Buddhist psychiatrist Mark Epstein has found a different way.  Based on the premise that the Western notion of self is deeply flawed, Going to Pieces  Without Falling Apart shows us that happiness doesn't come from any kind of acquisitiveness, be it material or psychological.  Happiness comes from letting go.  

Weaving together the accumulated wisdom of his two worlds--Buddhism and Western psychotherapy--Epstein shows how "the happiness that we seek depends on our ability to balance the ego's need to do with our inherent capacity to be." He enco