Cover image for Why Buddhism is true : the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment / Robert Wright.
Why Buddhism is true : the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment / Robert Wright.
Title:
Why Buddhism is true : the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment / Robert Wright.
Author:
Wright, Robert, 1957- author.
ISBN:
9781439195451
Physical Description:
xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm.
General Note:
"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."
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 -- 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.
Abstract:
Author Robert Wright shows how Buddhist meditative practice can loosen the grip of anxiety, regret, and hatred, and deepen your appreciation of beauty and other people. -- Adapted from book jacket.