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New York Times Bestseller
From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.
Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human brain. The mind is designed…
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I was introduced to Buddhist thinking (and meditation) when I was only eighteen years old. This was a life-changing event; one that guided my course for many years.
Sometime in my mid-thirties, I lost sight of what I'd learned of the value of meditation. Later, I rediscovered it, and began another meditation practice. Not Buddhist, but similar. And then I lost that. Ironically, this is an example of the impermanence that Buddha taught us about.
Wright is a evolutionary biologist, and he brings this perspective to a frank and scientific (as possible) discussion of how meditation can help us in…
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