Mark Epstein Quotes

Whether Or Not The Historical Buddha Actually Suffered From The Kind Of Primitive Agonies Winnicott Expounded Upon, The Meditations He Taught In The Aftermath Of His Awakening "hold" The Mind Just As Winnicott Described A Mother "holding" An Infant. In Making The Observational Posture Of Mindfulness Central To His Technique, The Buddha Established Another Version Of "an Auxiliary Ego-function" In The Psyches Of His Followers, One That Enabled Them, To Go Back To His Metaphor Of Pulling Out An Arrow, To Tend To Their Own Wounds With Both Their Minds And Their Hearts. Far From Eliminating The Ego, As I Naively Believed I Should When I First Began To Practice Meditation, The Buddha Encouraged A Strengthening Of The Ego So That It Could Learn To Hold Primitive Agonies Without Collapse.

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