洞见 – Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment by Robert Wright

这是一本颠覆认知的洞见之书。作者将佛学中的哲学思想和现代心理学、进化心理学、现代脑科学等研究领域的前沿成果相互印证，帮助我们认清基因载体、进化心理和人类自我意识之间的因果关系，将我们从自然选择的局限视角中解放出来。

让我们冲破大脑错觉，发现更真实的自我；以超然的视角，抵达更广义的同情；洞见事物的真相，真正体验到世界的本原之美。

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 to often delude us, he argued, about ourselves and about the world. And it is designed to make happiness hard to sustain.

But if we know our minds are rigged for anxiety, depression, anger, and greed, what do we do? Wright locates the answer in Buddhism, which figured out thousands of years ago what scientists are only discovering now. Buddhism holds that human suffering is a result of not seeing the world clearly—and proposes that seeing the world more clearly, through meditation, will make us better, happier people.

In Why Buddhism is True, Wright leads readers on a journey through psychology, philosophy, and a great many silent retreats to show how and why meditation can serve as the foundation for a spiritual life in a secular age. At once excitingly ambitious and wittily accessible, this is the first book to combine evolutionary psychology with cutting-edge neuroscience to defend the radical claims at the heart of Buddhist philosophy. With bracing honesty and fierce wisdom, it will persuade you not just that Buddhism is true—which is to say, a way out of our delusion—but that it can ultimately save us from ourselves, as individuals and as a species.

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