Robert Wright's Nonzero

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

Apr 29, 2020
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
How Did You Meet Buddhism?
04:13 • 4min
3
Is Zen a Little Bigger on Regiment Than Other Buddhist Traditions?
07:51 • 4min
4
The Mind and Life Institute
12:09 • 3min
5
The Insight Meditation Society and the Mind and Life Summer Research Institute
15:08 • 3min
6
What Is Buddhist Modernism?
18:16 • 4min
7
Are You a Buddhist Modernist?
22:01 • 3min
8
Why Buddhism Is True - A Book Review
25:05 • 3min
9
Buddhist Modernism
28:24 • 2min
10
The Core of Western Buddhism Is Naturalistic
30:27 • 2min
11
The Core of Buddhist Thought Is Not Naturalistic
32:41 • 3min
12
Is It Possible to Render Those Ideas in a Naturalistic Way?
36:07 • 3min
13
Is Buddhism a Religion?
38:38 • 2min
14
Is Dharmakirti a Buddhist Extraordinaryist?
41:04 • 4min
15
The Value System of Natural Selection
44:44 • 2min
16
Are We Biased by Feelings?
46:51 • 4min
17
Do You Know What Meditation Is?
50:50 • 2min
18
What Is Naturalism?
52:52 • 5min
19
Is the Western Therapeutic Tradition Part of the Western Scientific Tradition?
58:06 • 4min
20
I Had a Great Time at That Meditation Retreat
01:01:59 • 4min
21
The Analogy With Meditation Is Not Legitimate
01:05:32 • 2min
22
Is There a Neural Correlation Between Meditation and Meditation?
01:07:29 • 2min
23
Is Enlightenment a Brain State?
01:09:19 • 6min
24
Getting Rid of the Taints
01:15:11 • 2min
25
Is There a Clearer View of Reality?
01:17:32 • 3min
26
The Path to Enlightenment in Buddhism
01:20:10 • 4min
27
The End of Suffering
01:24:15 • 2min
28
The Path to Enlightenment
01:25:48 • 3min
29
The Ethical Value of Not Self
01:28:57 • 4min
30
The Self Is an Ongoing Construction
01:32:53 • 3min
31
How to Get to Nirvana?
01:35:32 • 5min
32
Is Nirvana the Realm of the Uncaused?
01:40:54 • 2min
33
The Paradox of Nirvana
01:42:43 • 5min
34
Is Enembodied Cognitive Science the Proper Scientific Framework?
01:47:48 • 6min
35
The Modular Model of the Human Brain
01:53:23 • 4min
36
Modules Are Not Locally Specific
01:57:37 • 2min
37
Evolutionary Psychology
01:59:23 • 2min
38
The Role of Culture in Evolutionary Psychology
02:01:47 • 2min
39
The Modular Mind in Meditation
02:03:33 • 5min
40
Is There a Fundamental Concept of Emptiness?
02:08:40 • 4min
41
Why I'm Not a Buddhist
02:12:17 • 2min
42
Why I'm Not a Buddhist by Marston Nussbaum
02:14:40 • 3min
43
Why I'm Not a Buddhist by Robert Key Thompson
02:17:34 • 3min