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#338 - Robert Wright - Psychology, Aliens & Averting The Apocalypse
Modern Wisdom
The Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation Without Evolutionary Psychology
Buddhism confronted the problem that we can never be satisfied for very long, he says. The Buddha's term dukkha is translated as unsatisfactoriness; it would have been a connotation of wanting more in his day. He believes mindfulness meditation without an insight into evolutionary psychology doesn't get the full picture.
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