Perhaps that is why he isn't arguing that people need to become a Buddhist to practice its truths.
Raised as a Southern Baptist, he left the church in his teens. That broad nonsectarian approach is an important part of Wright's approach. But Buddhist meditation, along with its underlying philosophy, addresses that predicament in a strikingly direct and comprehensive way." "There are other spiritual traditions that address the human predicament with insight and wisdom. It's Buddhism's take on our suffering, our anxiety and our general dis-ease that Wright wants to explore because that is where he sees its perspective lining up with scientific fields like evolutionary psychology and neurobiology. The part that is relevant to the here and now. Instead, Wright wants to focus on Buddhism's diagnosis of the human condition. The book, for example, makes no claims about reincarnation or Tibetan rainbow bodies or the like. Wright is explicitly not interested in the traditional aspects of Buddhism as a religion. The "true" in Wright's title doesn't refer to the traditional kinds of scriptural truths we think of when we think of religions and truth.
Wright's insight on this point is just one of the many truths in his delightfully personal, yet broadly important, new book Why Buddhism Is True. It's an opening that can lead us to something essential, and essentially true, that Buddhism has to teach us about being human. That initial meditative boredom is actually a door. But there is another thing we agree on, too. Here is one thing author Robert Wright and I agree on when it comes to Buddhist meditation: It's really, really boring.Īt least, it's boring in the beginning. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Why Buddhism Is True Subtitle The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment Author Robert Wright
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