TY - BOOK AU - Wright,Robert TI - Why Buddhism is true: the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment SN - 9781439195468 AV - BQ 4050 W952w 2018 U1 - 294.3/42 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Simon & Schuster KW - Buddhism KW - Apologetic works KW - Budismo N1 - Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017; Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index; Taking 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? N2 - At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer--and the reason we make other people suffer--is that we don't see the world clearly. At the heart of Buddhist meditative practice is a radical promise: we can learn to see the world, including ourselves, more clearly, and so gain a deep and morally valid happiness. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Wright shows how taking this promise seriously can change your life -- how it can loosen the grip of anxiety, regret, and hatred, and how it can deepen your appreciation of beauty and of other people. He also shows why this transformation works, Drawing on the latest in neuroscience and psychology, and armed with an acute understanding of human evolution, Wright explains why the path toward truth and the path toward happiness are one and the same ER -