Book cover of "Why Buddhism Is True" by Robert Wright with yellow background and red text.

A Good Match For:
Readers interested in mindfulness, meditation, and how Buddhist philosophy intersects with modern psychology and evolutionary science.

Not A Good Match For:
Those who might be put off by the book’s focus on evolutionary psychology and scientific explanations, or readers looking for a purely spiritual or religious take on Buddhism.

“Imagine if our negative feelings, or at least lots of them, turned out to be illusions, and we could dispel them by just contemplating them from a particular vantage point.”

― Robert Wright