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I'm Andravis Gontas.

And I'm Kishor Harri.

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slash inquiring minds and get started today. Last week, we had a difficult discussion about

the psychology of hate. So this week, we thought we'd bring a little Zen into your life.

So there's been a recent resurgence or emergence of science around meditation and Zen practices. And in fact,

there is one author whose work I really respect, whose previous books The Evolution of God,

and the moral animal have won many prizes and changed many minds. Robert Wright recently wrote

a book, Why Buddhism is True. That's a strong

statement. It certainly is. And he does have a couple of caveats right up front about he

doesn't, he's not going to touch on sort of ideas in Buddhism about reincarnation and the afterlife and

so forth. But rather just about the science

and philosophy of meditation and enlightenment and whether it can truly bring the things that

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