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Robert Wright on Why Buddhism is True

Philosophy Bites

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Is There a Story Telling Problem in Mindfulness?

We have a distorted conception of how the mind actually works, he says. We sometimes just make up after the fact and believe them. Buddhism describes it doesn't involve the neutralizing of feelings. You still feel the feelings, but it changes your relationship to them in a certain sense.

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