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Robert Wright on Why Buddhism is True

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The Importance of a Calm Mind, According to Buddhism

According to buddhism, when your mind is calm it's less in the thrall of all kinds of feelings that can distort our perception subtly and dramatically. A theme in buddhism that modern psychology is only now really picking up on is that feelings very subtly infiltrate our thinking. They get in the waynow let's think of this in terms of truth. The depiction of us as recurringly unsatisfied is a basically accurate picture, and makes complete sense in terms of natural selection. But i think the more interesting parts of the buddhist claim are subtler than that. I mean, buddhists do consider craving to represent a kind of misperception,. You're failing to

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