Why Buddhism Is True: Quotes
The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
Book by Robert Wright
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Robert Wright explores how Buddhist teachings and meditation practices, particularly from the Vipassana tradition, align with findings from modern psychology and evolutionary theory to diagnose the human condition and provide a path to greater clarity, happiness, and moral progress.
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The Sound Is Just The Sound
"Ajahn Chah, a twentieth-century Thai monk who did much to spread awareness of Vipassana meditation in the West...once recounted a time when he was trying to meditate and kept getting interrupted by sounds from a festival in a nearby village. Then, as he recalls it, he had a realization: 'The sound is just the sound. It's me who is going out to annoy it. If I leave the sound alone, it won't annoy me.'"
Section: 1, Chapter: 5
Nirvana - The End Of Reactivity
"When we have that basis of wisdom about the nature of thought, then we have more power to choose, okay, which thoughts are healthy . . . which thoughts are not so healthy—those we can let go." - Joseph Goldstein, on the fruits of deepening insight through meditation
Section: 1, Chapter: 14
The Evolutionary Origins Of Suffering
"Natural selection built animal brains, including human brains, to foster Darwinian fitness, not to see the world clearly. And it built brains that, when we're not actively engaged in some task, revert to a default mode of scanning the environment for opportunities and threats. So it's only natural that, when left to their own devices, our brains construct narratives about our lives and about the world 'out there.' It's only natural that these narratives feature lots of illusions about the power and persistence of the 'I' who is doing the constructing."
Section: 1, Chapter: 15
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