Why Buddhism is true the science and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment
At the heart of Buddhism is a simple claim: The reason we suffer -- and the reason we make other people suffer -- is that we don't see the world clearly. At the heart of Buddhist meditative practice is a radical promise: we can learn to see the world, including ourselves, more clearly, and so g...
| Main Author: | Wright, Robert, 1957- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Simon & Schuster,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Taking the red pill
- Paradoxes of meditation
- When are feelings illusions?
- Bliss, ecstasy, and more important 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
- Appendix: A list of Buddhist truths.