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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

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New York Times Bestseller
From one of The united states’s greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and quite a lot 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 ceaselessly delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it’s 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 as 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 non secular life in a secular age. At once excitingly ambitious and wittily accessible, this is the first book to combine evolutionary psychology with state of the art neuroscience to defend the radical claims on the heart of Buddhist philosophy. With bracing honesty and fierce wisdom, it is going to persuade you not just that Buddhism is true—which is to say, a way out of our delusion—but that it can in the end save us from ourselves, as individuals and as a species.

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