NMC Library
Image from Google Jackets

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

By: Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, [2017]Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: xii, 321 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781439195451
  • 9781439195475 (ebook)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Why Buddhism is trueDDC classification:
  • 294.3/42 23
LOC classification:
  • BQ4050 .W75 2017
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?

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?

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha