Why Buddhism is true
Robert Wright (from meaningoflifetv etc)has written a new book; "Why Buddhism is true". (It is quite cheap to download as an e-book) He takes evolutionary psychology to explain his ideas, especially the theory of modules working in our brains. This theory, like Buddhas, don't need a self to be true. Different modules work side by side or compete. Their task is to make us survive and to make children. So they make us afraid of foreigners, specially if they have other characteristics, as colors, than we have. They make us afraid of spiders, even in Sweden where we have no dangerous ones (for humans). They are what DNA uses to create feeling and feeling creates thoughts and thought can create ideologies and books or internet sites. Wright is not at all interested in religious stuff like karma or rebirth what he is into is mindfulness and retreats. Here is Wright discussing the book; So we are not in control of our feelings and thoughts. But with the help