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…
目录
A Note to Readers
1. Taking the Red Pill
2. Paradoxes of Meditation
3. When Are Feelings Illusions?
4. Bliss, Ecstasy, and More Important Reasons to Meditate
5. The Alleged Nonexistence of Your Self
6. Your CEO Is MIA
7. The Mental Modules That Run Your Life
8. How Thoughts Think Themselves
9. “Self” Control
Appendix: A List of Buddhist Truths
A Note on Terminology
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Notes
Bibliography
Index
10. Encounters with the Formless
11. The Upside of Emptiness
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