Why Buddhism Is True The Science And Philosophy Of Meditation And Enlightenment Robert Wright by Robert Wright 9781405280112, 1405280115 instant download after payment.

New York Times Bestseller
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 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 clearly—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
true—which is to say, a way out of our delusion—but that it can
ultimately save us from ourselves, as individuals and as a species.