![]() If you look at times when you've been rude to a checkout clerk or somebody, you were probably a little stressed out or something, so there’s that. The superficial version of that is just that being stressed out tends to make you behave like a jerk. Illing: What’s the connection between mindfulness meditation and becoming more moral? Does one lead to the other? That is more urgently needed than emotional empathy.” “One of the things that’s most lacking in the world is not emotional empathy, it’s cognitive empathy - meaning we have trouble seeing things from the point of view of other people. In a recent interview with Sean Illing on Vox he says: ![]() Wright arrives at the conclusion that Buddhism is "true" - and by "true" his doesn't mean superior to other religions or belief systems but that Buddhism’s “diagnosis of the human predicament is fundamentally correct, and that its prescription is deeply valid and urgently important". In between he draws parallels to his own experiences as a mindfulness meditation practitioner. ![]() In his most recent book Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment prize-winning author Robert Wright (whose Mindfulness Resistance project we've previously blogged) takes a long hard look at Buddhism through the lens of philosophy and evolutionary psychology. ![]()
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