![]() He suggests that meditation might help us achieve the state of supreme serenity and insight known as enlightenment. ![]() As Wright says in a Wall Street Journal essay, “ The Meditation Cure,” meditation “turns out to be one of the best ways to deal with the anxieties and appetites bequeathed to us by our evolutionary history.” But we can overcome these harmful tendencies through meditation, which helps us gain insight into and control over ourselves. We are prone to excessive emotions, like desire, fear and anger, and to self-deception, which were instilled in us by natural selection. ![]() Guided by evolutionary psychology (his intellectual lodestar) and Buddhism, he diagnoses humanity’s ills and prescribes a treatment: Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, which just hit the bestseller lists, is Wright’s most ambitious book. We’re obsessed with the same ridiculously big questions: What is the meaning of life? Does God exist? What is human nature? How constrained are we by our biology? What hope is there for us? In The Moral Animal, Nonzero and The Evolution of God, Wright explores these riddles with such crisp, assured intelligence that it’s hard figuring out where he goes wrong. I’m a friend and fan of mega-pundit Robert Wright. ![]()
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