Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

New York Times Bestseller
From one of Americaâ€™s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.

Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain.

But if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out thousands of years ago what scientists are only discovering now. Buddhism holds that human suffering is a result of not seeing the world clearlyâ€”and proposes that seeing the world more clearly, through meditation, will make us better, happier people.

In Why Buddhism is True, Wright leads readers on a journey through psychology, philosophy, and a great many silent retreats to show how and why meditation can serve as the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age. At once excitingly ambitious and wittily accessible, this is the first book to combine evolutionary psychology with cutting-edge neuroscience to defend the radical claims at the heart of Buddhist philosophy. With bracing honesty and fierce wisdom, it will persuade you not just that Buddhism is trueâ€”which is to say, a way out of our delusionâ€”but that it can ultimately save us from ourselves, as individuals and as a species.
Country USA
Brand Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 26249192
ReleaseDate 2017-08-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781439195451

Country	USA
Brand	Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	26249192
ReleaseDate	2017-08-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781439195451

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

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