![]() ![]() ![]() We talked about the illusion of self, the psychology of tribalism, how meditation can make us more moral, and why he thinks spreading meditation practice could be socially transformative. I sat down with Wright at the Vox office in Washington, DC. But it helps people transcend it by teaching us to see it clearly for what it is, and by making us more attuned to our emotive impulses and the behaviors they produce. Meditation isn’t a way out of this suffering. There are no analyses of Buddhist beliefs about reincarnation or supernatural deities the focus is on what Wright calls Western Buddhism or secular Buddhism, which is less about belief and more about meditation as a therapeutic practice.īy “true,” Wright means that Buddhism’s “diagnosis of the human predicament is fundamentally correct, and that its prescription is deeply valid and urgently important.” That diagnosis goes something like this: the human condition is defined by constant and ultimately inexplicable suffering. This is, instead, a light, accessible guide for anyone interested in the practical benefits of meditation. ![]() Wright isn’t proselytizing or implying that other religions are false. Don’t be put off by the audacious title, though. Robert Wright, the best-selling author of The Moral Animal and The Evolution of God, has written a book titled Why Buddhism is True. ![]()
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