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Why I Am Not a Buddhist (Robert Wright & Evan Thompson)

Robert Wright's Nonzero

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Do You Know What Meditation Is?

I would say that it's a peculiarly modern and problematic way to think that what meditation is about. I quote the Dalai Lama's famous thing, you know, don't use Buddhism to become a better Buddhist,. Use what you learn from Buddhism to become better whatever you are. That's just to make sure that we don't render all of Buddhism in terms of particular, like modern conception of what meditation is.

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