Why Buddhism is true

The Resource Why Buddhism is true
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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
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
294.3/42
Index
no index present
LC call number
BQ4050
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography

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