This weekend I began reading Robert Wright's new bestseller, Why Buddhism Is True. So far, it's quite enjoyable, and I'm learning a lot. Wright says in the beginning that his book does not explore the religious and metaphysical claims of Buddhism. Rather, he's interested in it from a naturalistic point of view. That is, he focuses on Buddhism as an applied philosophy of life, specifically on Buddhist meditation techniques. Wright has been meditating for many years now, and says it has improved his life greatly.
By “true,” Wright means that, in his words, “Buddhism's diagnosis of the human predicament is fundamentally correct, and that its prescription is deeply valid and urgently important.”
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