The Importance of Meditation

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There's a whole set of moral biases built into us that in the aggregate Are not conducive to social efficiency. If we had a clearer view of ourselves and so and meditation I think is good about Clearing away those obstacles. We just won't meditate for five hours a day for five years or whatever it might take us um, I think we do make incremental progress toward In the direction of those things.

Robert Wright, author of Why Buddhism Is True, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the psychotherapeutic insights of Buddhism and the benefits of meditation and mindfulness. Wright argues our evolutionary past has endowed us with a mind that can be ill-suited to the stress of the present. He argues that meditation and the non-religious aspects of Buddhism can reduce suffering and are consistent with recent psychological research.