Why Buddhism Is True
The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
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Fred Sanders
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Robert Wright
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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.
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- anna kwiecinska
- 14-11-2019
Exemplary clarity
With the petal-by-petal beauty of an unfolding lotus blossom, Robert Wright reveals the essence of Buddhist logic with singular clarity.
Using his own mindfulness meditation practice and life’s experience as occasional anecdote, Wright’s insistent precision comes alive with accessibility.
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- Paula Stokes
- 16-11-2017
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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- RedRen
- 23-10-2020
Well written book!
This book I found to be perfect as someone starting to study Buddhism. It creates recognisable links with the way our minds operate, natural selection, the way we live and Buddhist beliefs and practices. One of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Has been very helpful to me even after just a couple of chapters.
Have recommended it to many others.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-03-2022
Incredibly thought provoking.
I’ve been listening to this and some of the concepts are so hard to get my head around, that I’ve been listening to it over and over. Then the lightbulb moment happens and multiple of the confused concepts merge and become clear. Interesting that days later I watch a new Netflix series surviving death, that challenges my beliefs that reincarnation was impossible. Where is all this going… just start by listening.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-10-2017
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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- Anonymous User
- 11-08-2019
Great book and easy listening
Great insight and explanation. Easy to follow concepts. Would be great it a PDF of the appendix was included.
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- johnsoke
- 24-05-2020
Great Insight into Buddhism from a non-buddhist!
Wonderful insight into Buddhism and the power of meditation
Great narrator and I highly recommend this book to anybody with an interest in Buddhist philosophy
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- Sahan
- 13-04-2018
Buddhism boiled down to it's very essence
Me being from Sri Lanka is from a traditional Buddhist culture. Hinduism influenced, subjected to political and societal manipulation brand of Buddhism which is why I loved the fresh perspective of science and philosophy in it's essence that Robert Wright and Western Buddhism offers, undistracted from the unimportant factoids that stem from years of evolution. A must listen.
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- truffle
- 20-04-2018
Best book on meditation that I've read yet!
This book wonderfully weaves philosophy, science and meditation together. I recommended this book to people interested in or currently practising meditation as I found it very relatable as a mediator and I would have probably mediated sooner if I had read it long ago.
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- Robert Fletcher
- 29-05-2020
Why Buddhism is True is True
I first bought this book several years ago when I was first getting interested in Buddhism. On my first listening I thought that the book was interesting and the points it makes made sense. I have now been studying Theravada Buddhism and Vipassana for a few years and have been seriously meditating daily for a while which has had some subtle but profound effects on me.
I had forgotten most of the contents of the book but recently decided to listen to it again. I discovered that what the author was talking about was very similar to the experiences that I have had from meditating and studying Buddhist philosophy. Just listening to the book was almost a meditative experience, and has enhanced my understanding and meditation practice.
This book is basically non mystical Buddhism in a nutshell.
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