![]() ![]() ![]() Wright is currently the visiting professor of science and religion at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan and the author of four books, including The Moral Animal and The Evolution of God. Though the Buddha predates Darwin by more than 2,000 years, Wright contends that Buddhism’s diagnosis of the human condition is fundamentally correct and that its prescription - primarily mindfulness meditation - can help us override our hard-wired tendency to crave. ![]() But what is the origin of our craving? In his recent New York Times best-selling book, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment, Robert Wright argues that the process of natural selection designed the human mind to crave - and therefore suffer - because never-ending dissatisfaction helped our ancestors get their genes into the next generation. ![]() The Buddha said that the origin of all suffering is craving - we either don’t get what we want or we get what we don’t want. Science of the Mind Is Buddhism True? An Interview with Robert Wright ![]()
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