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Robert Wright on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Why Buddhism is True

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The Essence of Consciousness

The book why evolution is true. I think of it as a narrative that we have running in our head about who's worth talking to and what's worth looking at. A starling my favorite example. This is a gorgeous bird There are a lot of them and they're also big nuisance to a lot of people so they got a bad rep. It would do more for your career if you were talking to one person at a cocktail party rather than the other. You just never know What path will lead to what right?It's like, uh, um, I can give you an example, but  I mean it's kind of I just thought of this It's like Buddhism is

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