Why Buddhism is true : the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment
Wright, Robert
Why Buddhism is true : the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment / Robert Wright - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - New York : Simon & Schuster , 2017 - 321 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references 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?
Anyone writing (or reading) about Buddhism faces a critical question. What is Buddhism, really? A religion, complete with supernatural deities and reincarnation? A secular philosophy of life? A therapeutic practice? An ideology? All of the above? Robert Wright sketches an answer early in Why Buddhism Is True. He settles on a credible blend that one might call Western Buddhism, a largely secular approach to life and its problems but not devoid of a spiritual dimension. The centerpiece of the approach is the practice of mindful meditation.
English.
9781439195451
Buddhism
Personal growth ----Happiness
BQ4050 / .W75 2017
294.342 WRI
Why Buddhism is true : the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment / Robert Wright - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - New York : Simon & Schuster , 2017 - 321 p. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references 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?
Anyone writing (or reading) about Buddhism faces a critical question. What is Buddhism, really? A religion, complete with supernatural deities and reincarnation? A secular philosophy of life? A therapeutic practice? An ideology? All of the above? Robert Wright sketches an answer early in Why Buddhism Is True. He settles on a credible blend that one might call Western Buddhism, a largely secular approach to life and its problems but not devoid of a spiritual dimension. The centerpiece of the approach is the practice of mindful meditation.
English.
9781439195451
Buddhism
Personal growth ----Happiness
BQ4050 / .W75 2017
294.342 WRI
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