NMC Library

Why Buddhism is true : the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment /

Wright, Robert, 1957-

Why Buddhism is true : the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment / Robert Wright. - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. - xii, 321 pages ; 24 cm

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?

9781439195451 9781439195475 (ebook)

2016041766


Buddhism--Apologetic works.

BQ4050 / .W75 2017

294.3/42

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