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From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

I'm going to add you with a bonus podcast this week. I'm especially excited about this

one for a variety of reasons. Robert Wright is a really, really smart dude. He is a journalist

and a scholar. He's written a bunch of best-selling science ebooks, including the evolution of

God, non-zero, the moral animal. He has studied religion. He's studied evolutionary psychology.

He has provided a really important and interesting entry into what I think is one of the most

interesting trends in modern global culture, which is, and this is just my opinion, by the

way, but one of the most interesting trends that I see is that we're seeing this counterintuitive

yet robust embrace among some Western intellectuals of ancient Eastern mysticism. Bob Wright has

just, as I said, provided us with what I think is a really important entry into this nascent

phenomenon. He's written a book called Why Buddhism Is True, which is part, polemic, part

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