Why Buddhism is true, The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright
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Why Buddhism is true, The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright
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eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Index
no index present
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Adult, Brodart
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Why Buddhism is true
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electronic resource eBook
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bibliographydictionaries
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Robert Wright
Sub title
The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Summary
The best-selling author of The Evolution of God philosophically explains how the human mind evolved to channel anxiety, depression, anger and greed and how a healthy practice of Buddhist meditation can promote clarity and alleviate suffering
Table of contents
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?
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