03032cam a2200301 i 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003002000300007104000690010108200070017010000360017724501050021325000460031826000420036430000640040633600210047033700250049133800230051650400510053950505030059052014790109352100100257254100710258254600200265365000320267365500250270519280551OSt20260512175526.0160920s2017    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a9781439195451 [hardbound]  aUniversity of Cebu-BaniladbengcUniversity of Cebu-Baniladerda002231 aWright, Robert,d1957-eauthor.10aWhy Buddhism is true :bthe science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment /cRobert Wright.  aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.  aNew York :bSimon & Schuster,cc2017.  axii, 321 pages :billustrations (black and white) ;c24 cm.  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aTaking 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?  aFrom 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.  aAdult  xLauron, RodelloyGeneral EducationzGeneral Education : Philosophy  aText in English 0aBuddhismvApologetic works. 7aApologetic writings.