Going on Being

Mark Epstein gets better and better with each book: Going on Being is his most brilliant yet. He weaves a mindful cartography of the human heart, tying together insights from Buddhism and psychoanalytic thought into an elegant, captivating tapestry. Epstein shares the spiritual and emotional insights garnered from his own life journey in a fascinating account of what it can mean to us all to go on being. Mark Epstein brings together certain core insights of Buddhism and psychotherapy in a way that is newly illuminating. The result is what Buddhism calls 'a field of benefaction'. I felt happy reading this book. It will go among the handful of books that I keep near me for those times, in the middle of the night, when I reach for true solace. Noelle Oxenhandler author of The Eros of Parenthood