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Why Buddhism is true : the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment / Robert Wright.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781439195451
- ISBN: 1439195455
- Physical Description: xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-311) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Your CEO is MIA -- 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) -- Nirvana in a nutshell -- Is enlightenment enlightening? -- Meditation and the unseen order. |
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Subject: | Buddhism > Apologetic works. |
Genre: | Apologetic writings. |