Best-selling psychiatrist, Mark Epstein looks at one of the most powerful drivers of human behavior through the lens of Buddhist teachings on suffering.

1. The Enchanted Loom
Teasing sturdy threads from
neuroscience masterworks

2. Teasing 10
threads from
Mark Epstein’s…

3. Thread 1:
Desire can be transformed by a process that is
at once mental, emotional, psychological and
spiritual.
This is a
path in
which
longing
becomes
a teacher
in its own
right. (pg.11)

4. Thread 2:
Look into the eyes of desire and there is
boundless light.
(pg. 23)

5. Thread 3:
Buddha’s First Noble Truth is that all of life is
tinged with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactori-
ness because
of how fleeting
and insub-
stantial
everything is.
(pg. 40)

6. Thread 4:
The opposite of anxiety
is not
calmness.
It is desire.
(pg. 45)

7. Thread 5:
The self falls
away
effortlessly
under the
spell of love.
(pg. 56)

8. Thread 6:
What are we seeking from sex? We seem to be
seeking a level of relief that is not available,
and we get
angry when
it does not
come.
(pg. 71)

9. Thread 7:
There are three characters in any story of eros:
lover, beloved and that which comes between
them.
(pg. 72)

10. Thread 8:
We often find, to our own chagrin, that when
one level of desire is fulfilled, another stands
ready to
take its
place.
(pg. 86)

11. Thread 9:
Desire moves us
towards climax,
but its resolution
is anticlimatic.
It can be main-
tained only
if it remains
unfulfilled.
(pg. 113)

12. Thread 10:
“It is a joy to be hidden, but it is a disaster
not to be found.” ~ D. W. Winnicott
(pg. 142)

13. Thread 11:
In an uncanny parallel between the world of
psychotherapy and the world of Indian spirit-
uality, the meta-
morphosis of
desire that both
disciplines en-
vision is equated
with an opening
to the feminine.
(pg. 131)

14. Image Credits:
Title Page: http://www.alltreatment.com/your-brain-on-drugs
Slide 3 - https://empathicperspectives.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/the-longing/
Slide 13 - https://lauratria.com/feminine-spirituality/
Slide 2 - https://beherenownetwork.com/sharon-salzberg-ep-56-mark-epstein/
Slide 6 - https://wallpaperstock.net/desire--disparity-wallpapers_w19334.html
Slide 5 - http://www.hu-design.fr/ephemeral/
Slide 11 - http://dailym.ai/1liLdwE
Slide 10 - https://www.pinterest.com/pin/440789882251908739/
Slide 14 - http://www.alltreatment.com/your-brain-on-drugs
Slide 9 - http://www.aljamila.com/node/87696
Slide 8 - http://bit.ly/2sEs8fo
Slide 7 - https://hayvanozgurlugucevirileri.com/2011/10/18/gobek-bagi-dusmemis-yunus-yavrusu/
Slide 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_qMqnqFl8Q
Slide 12 - http://drpetermilhado.com/joy

15. Mark Brady, PhD
TheEnchantedLoom@gmail.com
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