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Why Buddhism is True为什么佛学是真的（英文原版） 内容简介

Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment is a 2017 book by journalist and evolutionary psychologist Robert Wright. As of August 2017, the book had peaked at The New York Times No. 4 bestseller in hardcover nonfiction.

In Why Buddhism is True, Wright advocates a secular, Westernized form of Buddhism focusing on the practice of mindfulness meditation and stripped of supernatural beliefs such as reincarnation. He further argues that more widespread practice of meditation could lead to a more reflective and empathetic population and reduce political tribalism. In line with his background, Wright draws heavily on evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology to defend the correctness of Buddhism's diagnosis of the causes of human suffering. He argues the modern psychological idea of the modularity of mind resonates with the Buddhist teaching of no-self (anatman).

Why Buddhism is True为什么佛学是真的（英文原版）目录

1. TakingtheRed Pill

2. Paradoxes of Meditation

3. WhenAre Feelings Illusions?

4. Bliss, Ecstasy,and More ImportantReasons to Meditate

5. TheAlleged Nonexistence of Your Self

6. YourCEO Is MIA

7. TheMental Modules That Run Your Life

8. How ThoughtsThink Themselves

9. “Self” Control

10. Encounterswith theFormless

11. TheUpside of Emptiness

12. A WeedlessWorld

13. Like,Wow,Everything Is One(at Most)

14. Nirvana in aNutshell

15. Is EnlightenmentEnlightening?

16. Meditation and theUnseenOrder

Appendix: A List of Buddhist Truths

A Note on Terminology

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Why Buddhism is True为什么佛学是真的（英文原版） 精彩文摘

At therisk of overdramatizing the human condition: Have you ever seen the movie The Matrix?

It’s about a guynamed Neo (played by Keanu Reeves), who discovers that he’s been inhabiting a dream world. The life he thought he was living is actually an elaborate hallucination.