Bibliograph

Why Buddhism is true, the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment, Robert Wright

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Why Buddhism is true, the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment, Robert Wright

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why Buddhism is true

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

989810980

Responsibility statement

Robert Wright

Sub title

the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment

Summary

Author Robert Wright shows how Buddhist meditative practice can loosen the grip of anxiety, regret, and hatred, and deepen your appreciation of beauty and other people. -- Adapted from book jacket

Table Of 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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