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Why Buddhism is true, Robert Wright

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From one of America'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 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 clearly7and 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 true7which is to say, a way out of our delusion7but that it can ultimately save us from ourselves, as individuals and as a species
Language
eng
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Publication
Extent
1 online resource.
Note
"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."
Contents
  • Taking the red pill
  • Paradoxes of meditation
  • When are feelings illusions?
  • Bliss, ecstasy, and other reasons to meditate
  • The alleged nonexistence of your self
  • The confirmed nonexistence of your self
  • The mental modules that run your life
  • How thoughts think themselves
  • "Self" control
  • Encounters with the formless
  • The upside of emptiness
  • A weedless world
  • Like, wow, everything is one (at most)
  • Is enlightenment enlightenment?
  • So remind me why I should meditate?
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9781439195475
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Why Buddhism is true
Title
Why Buddhism is true
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Robert Wright
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Genre
Language
eng
Summary
From one of America'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 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 clearly7and 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 true7which is to say, a way out of our delusion7but that it can ultimately save us from ourselves, as individuals and as a species
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1957-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Wright, Robert
Dewey number
294.3/42
Index
no index present
LC call number
BQ4050
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
Buddhism
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Why Buddhism is true, Robert Wright
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Publication
Note
"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Taking the red pill -- Paradoxes of meditation -- When are feelings illusions? -- Bliss, ecstasy, and other reasons to meditate -- The alleged nonexistence of your self -- The confirmed nonexistence of your self -- The mental modules that run your life -- How thoughts think themselves -- "Self" control -- Encounters with the formless -- The upside of emptiness -- A weedless world -- Like, wow, everything is one (at most) -- Is enlightenment enlightenment? -- So remind me why I should meditate?
Control code
ocn989811519
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781439195475
Lccn
2017027948
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
6165da3a-e355-49e0-941d-24cd6663fc15
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)989811519
Label
Why Buddhism is true, Robert Wright
Publication
Note
"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Taking the red pill -- Paradoxes of meditation -- When are feelings illusions? -- Bliss, ecstasy, and other reasons to meditate -- The alleged nonexistence of your self -- The confirmed nonexistence of your self -- The mental modules that run your life -- How thoughts think themselves -- "Self" control -- Encounters with the formless -- The upside of emptiness -- A weedless world -- Like, wow, everything is one (at most) -- Is enlightenment enlightenment? -- So remind me why I should meditate?
Control code
ocn989811519
Extent
1 online resource.
Form of item
online
Isbn
9781439195475
Lccn
2017027948
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
6165da3a-e355-49e0-941d-24cd6663fc15
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)989811519

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