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Why Your Self-Image Might Be Wrong: Ego, Buddhism, and Freud | Mark Epstein | Big Think

You first develop your ego when you are two or three years old. It creeps into existence the moment you realize that you are not empty—you are a self, and everyone else has a self in them. As you grow up, it latches onto positive and negative feedback and uses them to build the story of who you are.

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Does Your Ego Serve You, or Do You Serve It? What Buddhism and Freud Say About Self-Slavery

“Buddhist psychology and Western psychotherapy both hold out hope for a more flexible ego, one that does not pit the individual against everyone else in a futile attempt to gain total surety.”

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Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

In Advice Not Given, renowned psychiatrist and author Dr.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageMeditation is not a means of forgetting the ego; it is a method of using the ego to observe and tame its own manifestations.

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Mark Epstein—Advice Not Given: A Guide to Getting Over Yourself

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Building a Better Self?

It sounds like a good thing to do, but psychiatrist and Buddhist teacher Mark Epstein says you should resist ego’s endless demands for self-improvement.

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Why Your Self-Image Might Be Wrong: Ego, Buddhism and Freud

"You" might not be as real as you think you are. Here's what Buddhism has to say about living ego-free, and how Freud misunderstood it.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageOne of the age-old truths about love is that while it offers unparalleled opportunities for union and the lifting of ego boundaries, it also washes us up on the shores of the loved one’s otherness. Sooner or later, love makes us feel inescapably separate.

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