Why Buddhism Is True by Robert Wright
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Why Buddhism Is True
- The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
- By: Robert Wright
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Categories: Health & Wellness, Psychology & Mental Health
Publisher's 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 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 discovering only 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 listeners 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.
©2017 Robert Wright. All rights reserved. (P)2017 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Incredible!
Absolutely amazing book. The information itself is fascinating and intensely thought provoking but the way it is presented is so natural and easy to follow. Found myself laughing out loud more than once! Would recommend 100% especially for those who value the scientific approach. Superb! Narration was great too!
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Paula Stokes
Why Evolution is sometimes fake news
Robert Wright’s persuasive argument of the benefits of meditation – that it makes us all more aware of when our emotions are not aligned with our values or even our short term interests – was a profound insight for me.
It is written for someone who may not understand Buddhism at all, and in an accessible style.
The narrator has a calm voice well suited to the text.
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